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Certified Scrum Master
RedAgile
Tuesday 14 December 2021
Daily Scrum
Usual 3 questions + “How do you feel about the Sprint thus far ?”
Product Grooming/Refinement
Not defined in the Scrum Guide. Used to be there, but was dropped in latest version. Earlier version suggest 10% of Sprint time.
Kane suggests that it is critical because it saves time in Sprint Planning Meetings.
- Review and update Product Backlog to adjust and reflect current priorities and business needs.
- With time, there is greater clarity of larger backlog items further away, so good to make them more granular and break them into smaller tasks
- with smaller tasks, some can increase in priority and others adjusted down
3 Commitments
- Definition of Done: is universal for all increments, unlike Acceptance Criteria which is unique to each
- Product Goal: arising from Product backlog
- Sprint Goal: arising from Product backlog
Product Backlog Items
- Features
- User Stories
- Technical Debt
- Risk Mitigation
- Learnings (from Retropectives ?)
Monday 13 December 2021
Case studies
DBS
- Alibaba: the situation was dire
- e-Citi/Horowitz: change must be across entire organisation, not piecemeal/fringe
- father in Delhi: people can change, environment is holding us back
Product Owner
Maximise Value
Why
- Vision: Why are we doing it ? Focal point for the team
- Control of $: Why is the team is embarking on the initiative (ROI)
What
- Product backlog: ordered according to value
- Prioritisation
When
- When to release product
- if to cancel sprint
Facilitation techniques
- Tech check
- Toolkit
- Posters
- Videos
- Sensory facilitation: countdown, music
- Constantly “landing the plane”
- Visual Mgt Board: Burndown chart, Kanban board
- Avoid context switching
Topic 1
Marco Polo: go out and learn from others, especially needed for CSM
Cynefin Framework
Planning is Everything; the Plan is Nothing – Dwight Eisenhower
Topic 1
- Meeting ID: 842 8383 8386
- Passcode: 159232
Scrum Guide
https://www.redagile.com/scrum-guide
Scrum pillars: TIA
- Transparency,
- Inspection, and
- Adaptation.
Scrum Values: OCR FC
- Openness: Watermelon - green (okay) on outside but red (danger/critical) or amber inside
- Courage: Dare to have hard conversations
- Respect: Mutual
- Focus: prevent context-switching attention
- Commitment
Scrum Team
- Developers
- Product Owner
- Scrum Master
Scrum Events
- Sprint planning
- Daily Scrum
- Sprint Review
- Sprint Retrospective
- Scrum Sprint
| Sprint length | Planning | Daily | Review | Retrospective | Total hours | Percentage worked |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4 weeks | 8 hours | 15 mins | 4 hours | 3 hours | 4 x 7 x 8 = 224 hours | 93.2% |
| 2 weeks | 4 hours | 2 hours | 2 hours | 2 x 7 x 8 = 112 hours | 92.6% | |
| 1 week | 2 hours | 1 hour | 1 hour | 7 x 8 = 56 hours | 92.4% |
Scrum Artifacts
- Product Backlog
- Product Goal
- Sprint Backlog
- Sprint Goal
- Increment
- Meets the Definition of Done
Agile case study: FBI: https://redagile.us19.list-manage.com/track/click?u=458aaa9ad5b27e509dacbfebe&id=aac4c86648&e=9aa08b0b1a
Building a Jet Fighter Faster, Cheaper, Better with Scrum Agile case study: Saab: https://redagile.us19.list-manage.com/track/click?u=458aaa9ad5b27e509dacbfebe&id=607c0f6df5&e=9aa08b0b1a
Tesla Has Applied Agile Software Development to Automotive Manufacturing Agile case study: Tesla: https://redagile.us19.list-manage.com/track/click?u=458aaa9ad5b27e509dacbfebe&id=48068a3b9d&e=9aa08b0b1a
Career analyst Dan Pink examines the puzzle of motivation Dan Pink video: https://redagile.us19.list-manage.com/track/click?u=458aaa9ad5b27e509dacbfebe&id=b6daed0a7b&e=9aa08b0b1a