the future present of scrum (agile tour dublin 2016)

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

The Future Present of Scrum

Are we Done yet?

Agile Tour DublinChartered Accountants House6 October 2016

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• Lean (software development)• Kanban• DevOps• SAFe• The Spotify model• DAD• eXtreme Programming• Scrum

What definition of ‘Agile’ do you employ?

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Scrum turns 21.

Two+ decades of Scrum (1995-2016):• 70+ % of Agile teams employ Scrum• 500.000+ people trained/certified• 1.000+ books on Scrum• Scrum is free for anyone to use

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Is that a Gorilla I see over there?Source: https://versionone.com/pdf/VersionOne-10th-Annual-State-of-Agile-Report.pdf

I wonder…

What was the key to this success?

Houston?A journey of PEOPLE.

Thank YOU

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How would you rate your skills in Scrum?

None (or theory only)

Unchallenged (0-1 years experience)

Well-versed (1-5 years experience)

Mastery (5+ years experience)

Is the journey over?

Are we Done yet?

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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 road ahead

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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

Humanising 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”

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A system called ‘Scrum’.

ProductBacklog

Increment

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One team delivering product.

1. A team pulls work from one Product Backlog.

2. Each Sprint delivers a releasable Increment of product.

The Customer’s Experience

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Multiple teams delivering product.

1. A product has one Product Backlog.

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

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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?

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The definition of Done provides transparency

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

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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?

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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

Releasable Valuable

“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”

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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

Done is where Scrum starts.

Let’s shape the future to be about enacting Scrum.

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

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Scrum provides a bounded environment for action

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Your compass to truly enact Scrum.

More at “There is value in the Scrum Values” (Gunther Verheyen)

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A Scrum (Software) Studio. A bounded environment.

A Scrum (Software) 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 for innovative and creative software and people development.

“The future state of Scrum will no longer be called ‘Scrum’. What we now call Scrum will have become the norm, and organizations have re-invented themselves around

it.”Source: Gunther Verheyen, “Scrum – A Pocket Guide (A Smart Travel Companion)”, 2013

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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”

Mail gunther.verheyen@mac.com Twitter @Ullizee

Blog http://guntherverheyen.com

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