gasping toward the future: a look at what’s in store for scrum

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GASPing Towardthe Future:What’s in Store for Scrum?

Mike CohnAgile San Diego

October 23, 2012

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ReviewsWish Lists

Product backlog

Sprint goal

Gift WrapCancel

Sprintbacklog

Up to 1month

Potentiallyshippableproduct

increment

Sprint Review

Sprint Retrospective

Scrum

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I’ve just thought ofa great way my team

can improve!

I’ll tell them about it next

week.

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Quick Overview of Scrum 1Two Trends Driving Change 2GASPing Toward the Future 3

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Scrum in Education

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6John Miller “Generation Agile”

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“My students are in total control of theirlearning and they seemed to be annoyedwith me when I have to tell them to stop. My students would scrum all day if I let them. In fact they try to, but I have to tell them we have other things to get done first. I call them ‘my little scrum monsters’ because they have grown so much and they are scrum crazy.”

Kim Mills, CSM, 4th grade teacher

“My little Scrum monsters”

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‣ Validated learning overopinions and conventions

‣ Customer focused collaboration over silos and hierarchy

‣ Adaptive and iterative campaigns over Big-Bang campaigns

Marketing

Source:www.agilemarketingmanifesto.org

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‣ The process of customer discovery over static prediction

‣ Flexible vs. rigid planning‣ Responding to change over following a plan‣ Many small experiments over a few large bets

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Company Management

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“Should You Build Strategy Like You Build Software?” MIT Sloan Management Review, Spring 2008.

‣ Quarterly strategy sprints‣ 45 managers and employees from all parts and levels of

the company‣‣‣ Detailed action plans with measurable outcomes

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Construction

Lean ConstructionCollaborative designIterateStructure work to maximize value and reduce wasteFocus on total value rather than reducing costMake things happen rather than just monitor

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Families

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Quick Overview of Scrum 1Two Trends Driving Change 2

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Scrum Beyond SoftwareMore Frequent Releases

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The Old Days

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Today

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Tomorrow

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1995

“Amazing!”

2012

“Why would I wait 30 days?”

2007

“Acceptable.”

2002

“Nice!”

“Boss, we’ll give you working software in 30 days.”

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What used to be impressive has become commonplace.

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Continuous Delivery

Continuous Integration

Continuous Deployment

System is built (and tested) whenever code is checked in

System is delivered to the business on every check-in and could be easily released if desired

System is released to users after every good build

A Fairly Predictable Progression

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Quick Overview of Scrum

Two Trends Driving Change

GASPing Toward the Future

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www.AgileAtlas.org

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Example Rules‣ Sprints cannot be longer than a

month.‣ Get together at the start of the

do in the sprint.‣ Be “done” with something by

the end of each sprint.

Do these or else!

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“If I’d foowed a the rules, I’d never

have goen anywhere.”

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Test-DrivenDevelopment

Pair Programming

User Stories

BacklogGrooming

of Done

Don’t Starton Monday

Sprint 0

A Lot More Than the Rules

Task Boards

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Rules‣ If you aren’t

doing these, you aren’t doing Scrum

Good Ideas

‣Any idea a Scrum team

from knowing

GASPs‣Generally

Accepted Scrum Practices

‣A practice every Scrum team or ScrumMaster should know, even if they don’t do it

‣GASPs can be

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Good Ideas GASPs

Software-Specific GASPs

Test-DrivenDevelopment

User Stories

PairProgramming

BacklogGrooming

Don’t Starton Monday

Sprint 0

Task Boards

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Good Ideas

GASPs

GASPs

Core Scrum(The Rules)

Graphically

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From Core to GASP

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Sprint Review

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Core Scrum GASPs

From GASP to Core Scrum

Product BacklogGrooming Meeting

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“The smallest quantity of some physical property, such as energy,

that a system can possess.”

Quantum

TheFreeDictionary.com

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Yearly WeeklyMonthlyQuarterly HourlyDaily

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+ Developer testing+ Daily scrum− Design documents− Change requests− Analyst team− Build team

+ A/B testing− Staging− Operations team− Daily scrum− Sprint review

+ Live, 2-way data migration+ Temporary branches+ Keystoning− Multiple deployed versions− Test team− Release branch− Patches− Upfront UI design

+ Automated tests+ Refactoring+ Continuous integration ???

Reference:Software G Forces: The Effects of Acceleration by Kent Beck

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Summary of Predictions

‣ Scrum will continue expanding outside software‣ Releases will occur much more frequently‣ Scrum’s “Body of Knowledge” will be collected (at least

informally) as a set of rules, Generally Accepted Scrum Practices (GASPs), and plain ol’ good ideas

‣domains and niches so we have Software Development Scrum, Hardware Scrum, Marketing Scrum, Quantum Scrum, and so on

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Scrum Will Always Remain a Framework

“When forced to work within a strict framework the imagination is taxed to its utmost—and wil produce its richest ideas. Given total fredom the work is likely to sprawl.” 

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