The trainer in question was Martien van Steenbergen2.
Introduction
So basically Scrum is one of many implementations of the Agile Software Development Process.I'm going to write some things that I picked up on and I found to be important:
If you look at a graph of the adoption of different technological innovations in the US over the last 100 years (television, radio, internet, etc), there are a couple of things worth noting:
- every innovation follows the well-known S-curve, a few early adopters, followed by the herd of followers, followed by saturation of the market. This is remarkably the same for both old innovations of long ago, and new innovations of today
- the S-curves are becoming more steep, network effect increases quickly, the market becomes saturated much more quickly, i.e. new things get adopted much more quickly and easily
- there are more S-curves in a given period now then there were in a similar period in the past, i.e. the rate of new innovations is increasing
Some characteristics of Scrum
- 10% is bureaucracy, so in a two week sprint, your meetings/standups/etc add up to about a workday.
- we complete what we start
- a stable team is very important
- manage work and processes, but lead people.
- a scrum team consists of 6 people on average, give or take one.
- trying to estimate things correctly right at the beginning, is impossible
- keep the process (scrum) lightweight
- keep it flexible, which means, don't plan too much ahead, things will change
- keep your focus, which means, if you do plan, plan for short periods of time, for example a sprint, and keep your focus during that period. Become flexible once more when the period comes to a close. In effect you are trying to be both flexible and efficient at the same time.
- take responsibility for tasks, instead of getting tasks assigned to you
- feedback is very important, without feedback you do not know if things are working correctly or if things need to be adjusted
- we should talk about work during standups, and think less in terms of "what did I do, what am I going to do".
- history is important, without history we cannot make predictions on the future
- based on history you can make predictions if only one of the following are fixed: deadline or scope. See the Iron Triangle4
Glossary
- sprint3
- a time-box in which we commit to doing a list of things
- velocity
- what tasks can we complete during a sprint
- delta
- a change to a current situation, basically everything is a delta
- product backlog
- a list of all things that need doing
- product owner
- owner, responsible, employer, takes on risk, competence, available
- scrum master
- monitors the performance of the sprint(s), velocity
- development team
- performs work
Quotes
“If you chase two rabbits, you will catch neither.”- Russion proverb, on context/task switching
“If the rate of change on the outside exceeds the rate of change on the inside, the end is near.”- Jack Welch, former CEO of General Electric (on adaptability)
“Big Projects usually fail, regardless of process. The secret to project success is to strongly recommend and enforce limits on size and complexity. These two factors trump all other factors.”- Henrik Kniberg (on limits)
“It doesn't matter who does it, as long as it gets done.”- ? (on team effort)
“Where there is no standard, there can be no Kaizen.”- ? (on continuous improvement)
References
- [1] Xebia - Summer Special Scrum Foundation Training
- http://training.xebia.com/summer-specials/summer-special-scrum-foundation
- [2] Pearl Language
- http://pearllanguage.org/Home
- [3] Scrum.org - Scrum Guide
- https://www.scrum.org/Scrum-Guide
- [4] Wikipedia - The Iron Triangle
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_management_triangle
- Scrumalliance.org
- http://www.scrumalliance.org/
- Scrum.org
- https://www.scrum.org
- Wikipedia - Agile software development
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agile_software_development
- Alan Klement - Replacing User Story with Job Story
- http://alanklement.blogspot.nl/2013/09/replacing-user-story-with-job-story.html
- eduScrum - Dutch website on using Scrum in the classroom
- http://eduscrum.nl/
- The getKanban Board Game
- http://www.getkanban.com/
- The New New Product Development Game
- by Hirotaka Takeuchi and Ikujiro Nonaka
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