Misapplied Scrum

Artem Marchenko

http://agilesoftwaredevelopment.com

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Ideal Scrum

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Popular adoption path

• Presentation• Tool• Own effort

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Wow, we can replan whenever we like!

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Problems• Refactoring takes ages• What does Scrum Master

actually do?• Stuck in the next sprint

details• Velocity?• Nokia test?

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Process maintenance

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A vehicle for process and experimentation

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•Try writing tests before writing code

•Try short iterations

•Try long iterations

•Try analyzing before coding

•Try analyzing after coding

•Try timeboxing analysis

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Is somebody missing?• Yahoo! experience

• Conservative estimate of velocity increase of a coached team is 35% per year– Often 300-400%

• ROI of expensive first class trainers > 100%

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Your experience

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