What is

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 What is Scrum?

❑ Scrum is a framework for developing, delivering and sustaining complex products

through effective team collaboration.
❑ A framework within which people can address complex adaptive problems, while
productively and creatively delivering products of the highest possible value.
❑ Created by Ken Schwaber and Jeff Sutherland; originally launched in 1995.
❑ Scrum is not a process, technique or definitive method. Rather, it is a framework within
which various processes and techniques can be employed.
❑ Framework consists of Scrum Teams and associated roles, events, Artefacts and rules.
❑ Each component within the framework serves a specific purpose and is essential to
Scrum’s success.
❑ The rules of Scrum bind together the roles, events and artefacts, governing the
relationships and interaction between them.
❑ The rules are described in The Scrum Guide, developed and sustained by creators Ken
Schwaber and Jeff Sutherland.

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 Scrum
❑ The essence of Scrum is a small team of people. The individual team is highly flexible and
adaptive.
❑ These strengths continue operating in single, several, many, and networks of teams that develop,
release, operate and sustain the work and work products of thousands of people. They
collaborate and interoperate through sophisticated development architectures and target release
environments.
❑ Founded on empirical process control theory, or empiricism.
❑ Empiricism asserts that knowledge comes from experience and making decisions based on what
is known.
❑ Scrum employs an iterative, incremental approach to optimize predictability and control risk.

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 Scrum
Three pillars uphold every implementation
of empirical process control:

Scrum is….

SCRUM
LIGHTWEIGHT

TRANSPARENCY

INSPECTION

ADAPTATION
SIMPLE TO UNDERSTAND

DIFFICULT TO MASTER

EMPIRICISM

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 Uses of Scrum
Scrum was initially developed for managing and developing products. Starting in the early 1990s, Scrum has been
used extensively worldwide to:

❑ Research and identify viable markets, technologies, and product capabilities

❑ Develop products and enhancements
❑ Release products and enhancements, as frequently as many times per day
❑ Develop and sustain Cloud (online, secure, on-demand) and other operational environments for product use
❑ Sustain and renew products.

Scrum has been used to develop software, hardware, embedded software, networks of interacting function,
autonomous vehicles, schools, government, marketing, managing the operation of organizations and almost
everything we use in our daily lives, as individuals and societies.

As technology, market, and environmental complexities and their interactions have rapidly increased, Scrum’s utility in
dealing with complexity is proven daily.

Scrum proved especially effective in iterative and incremental knowledge transfer. Scrum is now widely used for
products, services, and the management of the parent organization.

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 Benefits of Scrum

REVENUE QUALITY TRANSPARENCY RISK FLEXIBILITY /

Using Scrum, new Maintaining quality is a Scrum development Small development AGILITY
features are developed key Scrum development encourage active Product increments help to Traditional (often referred
incrementally in Sprints. principle. Testing occurs Owner and Stakeholder identify risks early and to as 'waterfall')
At the end of each Sprint during every Sprint, involvement throughout make it easier to approaches often require
a potentially releasable enabling regular the development process, effectively mitigate them. 'big design up front' and
increment of a inspection of the working helping to ensure that Risks are owned by the resist change. In agile
product/solution is solution as it develops. expectations are Scrum Team and are development, change is
available. This enables Quality issues can be effectively managed. regularly reviewed, accepted and expected.
the product/solution to discovered and rectified reducing the risk of a Detailed requirements
potentially be released at early and regular failed project/initiative. emerge and evolve as the
much earlier in the intervals. product/solution is
development cycle, developed.
enabling benefits to be
realised earlier.

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 Benefits of Scrum

COST CONTROL BUSINESS A VALUABLE SPEED TO MARKET MORE ENJOYABLE

Fixed timescales and ENGAGEMENT & PRODUCT Research suggests about Active involvement,
evolving requirements CUSTOMER The ability for 80% of all market leaders cooperation and
enable a fixed budget. SATISFACTION requirements to emerge were first to market. As collaboration makes for a
The scope of the product The active involvement of and evolve, and the ability well as higher revenue more enjoyable place to
and its features are a Product Owner, the to embrace change, help from incremental delivery, work. When people enjoy
variable, rather than the high transparency of the to ensure Scrum Teams agile development what they do, the quality
cost. The real cost of product and progress, develop the right supports the practice of of their work will be higher
development can be and the flexibility to products/solutions which early and regular and the potential for
measured as it proceeds, change when change is meet or exceed the releases. innovation will be greater.
which provides a more needed, create much desired value of the
accurate view of the cost better business customer/user/stakeholde
of future development engagement and rs. The emphasis is on
activities. customer satisfaction. building the right product
that will deliver the
desired value and
benefits.

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 The Scrum Guide
❑ Created by Ken Schwaber and Jeff
Sutherland
❑ Designed to explain Scrum clearly and
succinctly
❑ Contains the definition of Scrum,
consisting of Scrum roles, events,
artefacts, and the rules that bind them
together.
❑ Available in over 30 languages.
❑ Download free at:
www.scrumguides.org

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 Scrum Framework
Sprint
Retrospective

Product
Owner

Daily
Scrum

Scrum Master
Product
Backlog

Increment

Sprint Sprint Sprint

Planning Backlog Review

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 Scrum Values

Successful use of Scrum depends on people becoming more proficient in living these five values.

COURAGE FOCUS COMMITMENT RESPECT OPENNESS

Scrum Team Everyone focuses People personally Scrum Team The Scrum Team
members have on the work of the commit to members respect and its
courage to do the Sprint and the achieving the goals each other to be stakeholders agree
right thing and work goals of the Scrum of the Scrum Team capable, to be open about all
on tough problems Team independent people the work and the
challenges with
performing the work

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 Scrum Events
Time-boxed events used to create regularity and to minimize the need for meeting not defined in Scrum

The Sprint Sprint Planning Daily Scrum Sprint Review Sprint Retrospective

A time-box of one The work to be The Daily Scrum is a The Sprint

month or less during performed in the Sprint 15-minute time-boxed A Sprint Review is held Retrospective is an
which a “Done”, is planned at the Sprint event for the at the end of the Sprint opportunity for the
useable, and potentially Planning. This plan is Development Team. to inspect the Increment Scrum Team to inspect
releasable product created by the The Daily Scrum is held and adapt the Product itself and create a plan
Increment is created. collaborative work of every day of the Sprint. Backlog if needed. for improvements to be
the entire Scrum Team. At it, the Development enacted during the next
Team plans work for the Sprint.
next 24 hours.

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 Scrum Artefacts
Represent work or value to provide transparency of key information and
opportunities for inspection and adaption.

PRODUCT BACKLOG SPRINT BACKLOG INCREMENT

An ordered list of everything Set of Product Backlog items The sum of all the Product
that is known to be needed in selected for the Sprint, plus a Backlog items completed
the product. Single source of plan for delivering the product during a Sprint and the value of
requirements for any changes Increment and realizing the the increments of all previous
to be made. Sprint Goal. Sprints.

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 Scrum Team

Scrum Master Product Owner Development Team

Responsible for Responsible for Consists of professionals
promoting and supporting maximizing the value of who do the work of
Scrum - as defined in the the product resulting from delivering a potentially
Scrum Guide - by helping work of the Development releasable Increment of
everyone understand Team. sole person “Done” product at the end
Scrum theory, practices, responsible for managing of each Sprint. Structured
rules, and values. the Product Backlog. and empowered to
organize and manage
their own work.

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 Scrum teams: key attributes

❑ Consist of a Product Owner, the Development Team and a Scrum

Master.
❑ Self-organizing and cross-functional.
❑ Scrum team model is designed to optimize flexibility, creativity and
productivity.
❑ Scrum Teams deliver products iteratively and incrementally,
maximizing opportunities for feedback.

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