Starting a New Project Craig Brown Melbourne Scrum Users Group April 13, 2011 http://www.meetup.com/scrum-12/ www.betterprojects.net

Last month we came together and created a backlog of things we want to explore.

This month our focus is to take this content and shape it into a project, using the principles and methods of scrum.

The theme is naturally "Starting a project."

The agenda: I'll do a short 10 minute talk and then we break into smaller groups to convert broad concepts and ideas into actions.

Part 1: Talk

WHAT DO I WANT OUT OF THIS?

Talk about starting new projects

Learn what’s going on with you guys

Set up a repeatable scalable system of getting things done (for this group)

Practice some games

New Project

Image: Jurgen @ Noop.nl Book: Management 3.0

Remember: Everything is relative

Who’s who?

Zombies c/o Pictofigo & Derek Huether Collaboration c/ Bas de Baar

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A whole other topic

Too many Requirements

What do you guys

do?

User stories are optional… It’s the list that matters.

Scaling Software Agility Dean Leffingwell

INVEST in good user stories

Independent Negotiable Valuable Estimable Sized right Testable

Bill Wake

How long is yours?

Sprinting at Enterprises

Release!

Release!

Release!

Release!

Release!

Integration to Prince2 and all that PMO stuff

I like to use past performance

It can be a compelling case

Standish 2009

24% 44% 32%

Now you are ready to get started

Part 2: Activity

We work in Teams

Take the backlog we made last month. Prioritize by coolness

Size the stories Teams pick them and go foreward

Some obvious next steps

Converting PBIs to Sprint Backlog Items

REMEMBER THE FUTURE