What if Scrum had no rules?

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1 What if Scrum had no rules? Peter Stevens Attribution- ShareAlike 3.0 Unported (CC BY- SA 3.0) Transforming your Culture with Working Agreements Basic (2. Stock) 16:00 17:00

2 Which best describes the attitude towards Scrum in your company? Follow the rules! Live Inspect and Adapt!

3 To what extent do the rules of Scrum make sense to you? WTF!? Scrum is a natural! Why?

4 Imagine! It s 1993 and you are Jeff Sutherland

5 How do you identify successful patterns? Outliers

6 We can also use our own experience to identify outliers!

7 I believe agreements are stronger than rules

8 I believe agreements are stronger than rules Let s explore great projects together 1. Tell & listen to stories of great projects 2. Identify those projects most worthy emulation 3. Identify the patterns in those projects Could we agree to do something similar?

9 Can we agree to respect the timebox?

10 Share your best experience Groups of 6 Timebox 1:30 / person = 9 minutes total!

11 Remember that face! and Regroup!

12 Share your best experience Groups of 6 Timebox 1:30 / person = 9 minutes total!

13 Remember that face!

14 Find the project you d most like to emulate!

15 Let s hear the best projects! The 3 most popular projects 1:30 / per person

16 How many of you Told the story of the project you are working on today?

17 Could you? Agree with your colleagues to make this project your best project?

18 What would you be agreeing to?

19 What are the characteristics of these great projects? How would you describe the purpose of the project? How many people were involved? What skills did they have? How often did they produce something that worked? What were the characteristics of the leadership? How did people work together? How would you describe the motivation of the people involved? What factors enabled the motivation? What was the relationship to the beneficiaries of your work (customers)?

20 Could you agree with your colleagues To implement these patterns?

21 I believe If you implement these patterns you get something that looks a lot like Scrum

22 What are the attributes of these successful projects? Management Clear Vision & goals Clear priorities Clear decisions Clear responsibilities Management Support for the Teams, People & Project Focus Close cooperation with the customer Motivated, Activated & Empowered Team Members Technical Short feedback loops Running systems early Clear Acceptance Criteria / Tests Good tools and equipment Risks handled early Early and regular integration Thorough Test Suite Automated Test Suite

23 What are the patterns that Scrum implements?

24 Deliver regularly something that works

25 Inspect and adapt at regular intervals

26 A single voice speaks for the customer / user / stakeholders

27 A small, interdisciplinary team solves the problem

28 Great performance comes from continuous improvement

29 Management helps and knows when to stay out of the way

30 What if? We consider Scrum as collection of working agreements?

31 How would you recognize a good change? result of an agreement to be better inspect & adapt more often

32 Q&A?

33 Vote! Agreements are more powerful than rules! Vote to elevate the status of agreements in the Scrum Guide

34 What if, we considered Scrum as a series of opportunities to ask powerful questions? Work Day 2 Day n DS DS Daily Scrum Work Sprint Done Work SR Retro SP2 Day 1 Vision Backlog Refinement SP1 Increment (CC BY SA) Peter Stevens

35 What if, we considered Scrum as a series of opportunities to ask powerful questions? Work Day 2 Day n DS How? What help do we need? What s slowing us down? DS Daily Scrum How do we know a step was successful? How do we ensure the quality of our work? How do we know that what was done in the last sprint is still done in this sprint? Vision Work Done How can we work more effectively? SR What have we accomplished or learned? Retro Sprint A container to limit ourselves to setting reasonable medium- term goals. What can we reasonably expect to accomplish by the end of the sprint? Backlog Refinement What is the best possible step forward? How can we accomplish these steps? SP1 SP2 Work Day 1 Increment How will our efforts make the world a better place? Who needs our product? Why? Why should we build it? What could we do to get us closer to our vision? What small steps could take us nearer to our goal? (CC BY SA) Peter Stevens

36 Let s make this project your best project! Peter Stevens scrum- breakfast.com scrumbreakfast.club saat- peter@saat- network.ch