We are using scrum, but now what?

”We are using Scrum, but now what?”

Julian Holmes, Founder of AgileMentors

Agenda

▪ Scrum as a Foundation ▪ Building on Scrum ▪ Challenges that require additional practices

– Self-organisation v Leadership – Risk Management – Commercial Governance – Client engagement

▪ Questions

Scrum as a Foundation▪ Very simple ▪ Team decides on level of

ceremony ▪ Regular feedback ▪ Queuing theory, reduced

handoffs ▪ Transparency ▪ Focus effort and prioritisation ▪ Ownership ▪ Potentially 'shippable'

products

DSDM Atern Agile UP Lean XP Kanban Custom Hybrid Scrum

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Scrum is still the “King” of Agile methods

▪ But the largest benefits come from a a hybrid approach

▪ E.g. XP helps fill the technical gap purposely left by Scrum 85%

7th Annual State of Agile Development Survey - VersionOne, February 2013

DAD as a Scrum Hybrid“The Disciplined Agile Delivery decision process framework is a people-first, learning-oriented hybrid agile approach to IT solution delivery. It has a risk-value delivery lifecycle, is goal-driven, is enterprise aware, and is scalable.”

DAD Roles

▪ Recognition that other roles need to exist

▪ Architecture will be a focus for complex solutions

▪ Not all the skills and responsibilities of an organisation can be in the team

Agile Team Leader

▪ Can we expect all Agile teams to be completely self-organising?

▪ Some “leadership” may be required ▪ An extension to the Scrum Master role ▪ Not management, true leadership ▪ A “servant leader”

The Scrum Construction Lifecycle

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Extending the Scrum Lifecycle for Solution Delivery

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DAD is Goal-Driven

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A Governed Agile Lifecycle

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The Phases Disappear Over Time

▪ The phase goals will also dictate the pattern of phases required by project and release

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First release: Inception Construction Transition

Second release: I Construction T

Third release: I Construction T

Nth+ releases: C CT C C TT T

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Disciplined Agilists Take a Goal Driven Approach

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Goal ConstraintAdvantages Disadvantages Considerations

* Option Default Option

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Explore the Initial Scope

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Form the Initial Team

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Address Changing Stakeholder Needs

Source Team size Team structure Team members Geographic distribution Supporting the team Availability

Co-located Partially dispersed Fully dispersed Distributed subteams


Stakeholder Engagement

▪ Ideally through the Product Owner ▪ Availability or consensus may be an

issue: – Inception Deck workshop – Product Owner Proxy – Backlog “Grooming” workshops

Goal: Explore the Initial Scope

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Summary

▪ Scrum is an Agile foundation – Collaboration – Transparency – Inspect & Adapt – Self-organisation – Client inclusion

▪ But Scrum is purposely incomplete – Technical practices – Specialist skills – Client engagement – Risk management – Goal-driven governance

Disciplined Agile Delivery takes Scrum to the next level

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We are using scrum, but now what?