Scrum Day Europe 2016 - The Future Present of Scrum

by Gunther VerheyenScrum. Connector, writer, speaker, humanizer.

The Future Present of Scrum

Are we Done yet?

Scrum Day Europe VAmsterdam, Netherlands7 July 2016

Houston?SDE turns 5.Scrum turns 21.

Thank YOU

3Gunther Verheyen – Ullizee-Inc, 2016 @Ullizee

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Is the journey over?Are we Done yet?


What is the #1 challenge of your team, department or organization moving forward with Scrum?

What is stopping you?Does your Scrum Master know? Does management know?

Looking at the journey ahead


The future is unwritten. Our journey faces many challenges.

Enacting Scrum

People

Ceremonies

Principles and

Values

Technical Excellence

Done Increment

sThe power of the

possible product

Maximize Scrum

Scaled Scrum

Scrum Studio

Upstream adoption

Professional Scrum

Creating releasable software (every Sprint)

Increasing effectiveness (not

dysfunctions)

Scrum in the enterprise

Growing Product Ownership

Humanizing the workplace(It starts and ends with people)

Houston?

“If Scrum was to be reduced to one purpose, and one purpose only, that is the creation of a Done Increment in a Sprint.”

Source: Gunther Verheyen, “Done is a crucial part of Scrum, actually”

https://guntherverheyen.com/2015/05/14/done-is-a-crucial-part-of-scrum-actually/


A system called ‘Scrum’, the path we travel.

ProductBacklog

ValuableIncrement


One team delivering product (the basics)

1. A team pulls work from one Product Backlog.

2. Each Sprint delivers a releasable Increment of product.

The Customer’s Experience


Multiple teams delivering product (sticking with the basics)

1. A product has one Product Backlog.

2. Multiple Teams create integrated Increments, that can wrap into releases.The Customer’s Experience


On your current or latest project:• Did you deliver an Increment?–Every Sprint?

• Was it releasable?–Every Sprint?

What is stopping you?Does your Scrum Master know? Does management know?

How Done are you?


The definition of Done provides transparency

1. What is the state of the Increment?2. Is the Increment releasable, i.e. “ready for release”?


Raise your hand:

They might have been produced in similar environments, using similar techniques. Their definitions of “Done” likely reflected very different product qualities.

Which product had the best definition of Done?


Development Standards Product Qualities

What are you defining as “Done”?

• Pair programming• (A)TDD• Refactoring• User acceptance testing• Continuous Integration – Unit, deployment, build,

integration, regression tests• Performance testing

• Clean Code base• Valuable functionality only• Architectural conventions

respected• According to

design/style/usability guide• Documented• Service levels guaranteed

“Done is a crucial part of Scrum, actually.”

– Key for empirical product delivery– Foundational for business agility– The purpose for product people

Source: Gunther Verheyen, “Done is a crucial part of Scrum, actually”

https://guntherverheyen.com/2015/05/14/done-is-a-crucial-part-of-scrum-actually/


What Done requires

• Committed, focused, engaged people• Team effectiveness through collaboration, autonomy & self-

organization• Skills (training)• Engineering practices & standards• Infrastructure, tooling & automation• Quality standards & guidelines• Removal of Impediments• Elimination of low value


A Scrum Studio. Your flight control center.

A Scrum Studio is a contained, yet integrated, part of the organization where software development fully employs Scrum• A physical or a virtual area• Value over utilization• Stable product teams• Tooling and infrastructure• Facilities and resources

A center of innovative and creative software and people development.


Enacting Scrum. Your compass.

People

Commitment

Focus

OpennessRespect

Courage


Scrum provides a bounded environment to get going

What is stopping you?• Does your Scrum

Master know?• Does management

know?

Scrum starts with Done.Let the next 20 years be about

enacting Scrum.

Source: Gunther Verheyen, “The Future Present of Scrum”

https://guntherverheyen.com/2016/05/26/the-future-present-of-scrum/


About

Gunther VerheyenIndependent Scrum caretaker• eXtreme Programming and Scrum since 2003• Professional Scrum Trainer• Shepherded Professional Scrum at Scrum.org• Co-developed Agility Path, Nexus and the Scaled

Professional Scrum framework at Scrum.org• Author of “Scrum – A Pocket Guide” and “Scrum

Wegwijzer”

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S A F E T R A V E L S


Scrum Guide Update 2016

“When the values of commitment, courage, focus, openness and respect are embodied and lived by the Scrum Team, the Scrum pillars of transparency,

inspection, and adaptation come to life. The Scrum Team members learn and explore those values as they work with the Scrum events, roles and artifacts.

Successful use of Scrum depends on people becoming more proficient in living these five values. People personally commit to achieving the goals of the

Scrum Team. The Scrum Team members have courage to do the right thing and work on tough problems. Everyone focuses on the work of the Sprint and

the goals of the Scrum Team. The Scrum Team and its stakeholders agree to be open about all the work and the challenges with performing the work. Scrum

Team members respect each other to be capable, independent people.”More at “There is value in the Scrum Values” (Gunther Verheyen)

https://guntherverheyen.com/2013/05/03/theres-value-in-the-scrum-values/

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Scrum Day Europe 2016 - The Future Present of Scrum