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In my last post about Professional software teams creating working software David Corbin made a good point. Updated to reflect the 2020 Scrum Guide! TL;DR; Your Developers are ultimately responsible for creating done increments of working software. The 2020 Scrum Guide. Done Increments. So what do you do?
In December 2020, my friend Adrian Galarza and I delivered a Scrum.org Scrum Pulse Webinar - A Cycle Time Journey: 164 to 8 Days in 6 Months that summarized the journey of Adrian’s Scrum Team. Due to horrible time-management on my part, we could not answer all the questions in the webinar, so we are answering them in this blog instead.
Updated to reflect the 2020 Scrum Guide! TL;DR; Without working software, you can’t build trust and you don’t know when you will get the next piece of working software. Once you accept this, and quality becomes non-negotiable, your Dev e lopers can focus on creating usable increments of working software.
The teams at his company had well established cadences for their Scrum events; well-oiled Daily Scrums that are done within 15 minutes and result in transparency of what the team will do for the next 24-hours. They are releasing software after every 2-week sprint. Get the basics in place and yes, you are doing Scrum.
Scrum is the most popular Agile framework. According to the latest State of Agile survey from Digital.ai, 90% of teams who are using an Agile framework are using Scrum. I like to think that this is because Scrum is a goldilocks framework … with just enough - but not too much - structure. That is the power of Scrum.
Whether a team uses a scheduled cadence for reviewing their WoW such as the use of retrospectives in Scrum, or they use a just-in-time approach they will come up with improvement ideas. Coding standards, codingreviews, non-solo coding, test-first development, and automated code quality tools are just a few choices.
Many well-meaning Scrum practitioners have misconceptions about Scrum, which sometimes leads to creating “rules” that do not exist in the framework. Scrum is deliberately incomplete because the framework is used in complex environments where simple best practices won’t fit all situations.
Intended audience: Scrum masters, Product owners, Managers and Agile coaches. Delivering working software is perceived as an IT responsibility instead of a Business-IT collaboration. I was successful with optimising for feature size that could be delivered in a two-sprint cadence. Lack of product focus. No Release management.
Scrum, in its more general definition, is a simple framework to help us address complex challenges. Product development is the subset of complex problem domains where Scrum took root first; by explicitly acknowledging software and new product development to be complex work, serving to deliver complex products in complex circumstances.
In our Scrum classes, we teach that Product Owners are value maximizers. Due to their limited scope of ownership (tasks or features) and span of control (single team), all they can maximize is the utilization of their team’s capacity. They study and do the work in a shared cadence (Sprint). So why not give it a try?
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Most people, as well as me, are used to Scrum (or more likely Zombie-Scrum or Scrum-But ), but I believe it is too early to do proper Scrum here. In the usual Scrum process, the P.O. In my over 25+ years in the software industry, this has been an all too familiar situation! One column per person/pair?
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SAFe includes Scrum - so how come many Scrum practitioners and thought leaders consider it unsafe? It takes advantage of established frameworks and techniques that work well - Scrum being the first and foremost of those. SAFe's Scrum Master is more of an Agile Team Lead. I hear a lot of questions and claims.
In this article, he outlines the similarities of the two as WIP Limiting, Pull-based systems – with cadences and a focus on learning – while also explaining their differences. A question that I often get while speaking with people is: What is the difference between Kanban and Scrum? You will enjoy this excellent article.
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If you’re a veteran of the software industry, you probably remember those days where we released to production/GA every couple of months. If you’re also an experienced Scrum practitioner, you probably associate the time you started to use Scrum with the time you started to release more frequently. Scrum Theory helps us out here.
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Such elements might include handoffs (specialization or authorization), queues (describing the same work at different levels), groups of teams not working in the same cadence, etc. This will make a visit to a Review time well spent. That’s because software development is complex, i.e., too many unknowns exist.
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Furthermore, neither agile or scrum contemplates how the agile team should be connected to a larger organization and to external partners who will likely have differing development processes and cadences. It puts the focus on the software and the related business processes in a powerful way by using different scenarios.
In Scrum terms, this is about improving upon the Definition of Done. And in the 21st century for software development teams, this means realizing the paradigm of Continuous Delivery. We have reviewed those ideas in an article on Team Topologies and highlighted some serious drawbacks of such an org design.
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The questioner asked – “I have recently joined a company and to one of the projects that I’m engaged we have this Scrum team that has a mixed backlog (USs and Bugs). Software teams frequently manage products – and that means they are expected to build new features for the product as well as fix defects reported in the product.
Scrum has proven to be an effective product delivery framework for all sorts of products. However, Scrum is equally well suited to build the wrong product efficiently as its Achilles heel has always been the product discovery part. How that is supposed to happen is nowhere described in the Scrum Guide.
I have been hiring Scrum Masters lately. So far, I hired 2 Scrum Masters whose answer to the question didn’t have any of those metrics. Rarely do you hear Scrum practitioners bringing up Cycle Time, Lead Time, Throughput, Work Item Age. The software uses example data to show its capabilities – nice touch. Entering PSK.
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The model has been favored by software engineers for its efficacy and flexibility, and it’s beginning to catch on in agencies and startups. Cut down work periods through sprints, daily standups, and reviews. Scrum Master : The player-coach most akin to a project manager who oversees operations and guards the process.
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They depend on the software or product they produce and their audience or market. Improved Quality of Software or Product. And whether you are producing software or some other product, the process can be applied to many different contexts. Desired business outcomes are unique to each organization or business. Cost Savings.
Apply cadence and synchronize with cross-domain planning. SAFe isn’t just about delivery or writing code but more about the people and process. SAFe isn’t just about delivery or writing code but more about the people and process. They work diligently to ensure on-time releases. Decentralize decision making.
A retrospective meeting is an opportunity for the team to reflect on what went well during the sprint (if we’re using Scrum terminology), what could have been done better and to discuss any actions that fall out of that discussion which would improve and iterate for next time. In-person retros tend to generate notes to type up afterward.
In the phases with an Agile or adaptive approach, you want to have a combination of adaptive approaches – say a combination of Scrum and Kanban. This is because you used the frameworks of Waterfall, Scrum, and Kanban within a single project! I’ve derived the word ScrumBan by combining Scrum with Kanban. Build the Scrum Part.
If not, then we start measuring things like people trained, teams doing Scrum, or the organization’s sentiment toward Agile to tell us if we’re succeeding. Third, how are we reproducing working tests in software? What is the acceptance criteria for Scrum? Agile needs to be tied to business-driven results.
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They did not have the skills or authorization to make software and configuration changes in the banking systems. The queue of work was huge due to the long waiting times for the work in progress. Tasks belonging to these initiatives got stuck in the worklists of teams in the IT department due to unclear decision processes.
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Compared to Scrum, Kanban is a young work-management method. Anderson best articulated its application to software development, in 2013, in the foundational book Kanban: Successful Evolutionary Change for Your Technology Business, and its adoption hasn’t been as universal as Scrum’s during the early days of Agile software development.
I wasn’t around when things like XP and Scrum were invented, but I have been lucky enough to spend time with many of the original signers of the Manifesto. That having weekly planning cadences; daily standups, reviews, and retrospectives would give people a reason to get in the same room and collaborate. Why is it so difficult?
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