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Scrum Basics
Definition of Scrum
Scrum is one of the Agile frameworks followed to complete challenging projects wherein there are dynamic changes in the requirements by using one or more cross-functional, self-organizing teams of about 7 +/- 2 people on each team.
Scrum Principles
- Scrum consists of 3 roles: Product Owner, Scrum Master, and Development Team/Engineering Team.
- Scrum uses fixed-length iterations called Sprints ranging from 1-4 weeks (or 30 days long).
- Scrum teams should consist of 7 +/- 2 people.
- Sprint cannot exceed more than 30 days.
- Sprint is time bound.
- Scrum team aims to build a potentially shippable product by end of each Sprint.
- Daily Scrum / Stand-up meeting should be only for 15 mins. and as the name goes, the team should be standing during entire meeting time.
Scrum Roles
Product Owner
- Responsible for the product vision.
- Person who maintains the product backlog.
- Only person who can make a decision whether the product is ready to ship.
- Only authoritative person to take a decision about abruptly discontinuing/stopping the sprint.
- Person responsible for providing clarification on the user story to the development team whenever needed.
- Only authoritative person to take the decision of including any further functionality to the product backlog.
- Person to constantly reprioritize the product backlog.
Scrum Master
- Facilitator of the Scrum process.
- Helps resolving any issues / impediments faced by the Scrum team.
- Shields the team from external interferences and distractions.
- Creates a positive environment for the team to be self-organizing.
- Enforces timeboxes.
- Person who maintains sprint burn-down / burn-up charts.
- Person who facilitates the required meetings.
- Has no management authority for the team (for example, he or she cannot command the team to do a specific task).
- Promotes improved practices of engineering.
- Only Point-of-Contact for escalations.
- Only person who can take the escalations or request to the top management.
Development Team
- Consists of 7+/- 2 members.
- Should be a self-organizing and cross-functional team (consists of the members with testing, development, business analyst, domain expertise, etc., skills).
- Should self-manage the tasks among the team.
- Should resolve people management issues if any among the team and should only take it to the Scrum Master if it has gone out of the team’s control.
- Works with Product Owner in reprioritizing the product backlog items.
- Responsible to complete the committed task for the sprint.
Scrum Basics Videos
NP Library Resources
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Scrum in Easy Steps
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ISBN: 9781840787313Publication Date: 2017-06-13Scrum in easy steps provides an introduction to Scrum, then steps through how a team gets going on a project and how they sustain performance and continually improve. It explores the three core roles in a Scrum team and how they work together effectively and covers how a team works with others outside the team (an area most books on Scrum leave out). The book then shows how to apply the Scrum framework throughout product development, from product discovery and definition through the experience of working in Sprints on product delivery, to how teams inspect and adapt to improve themselves and find opportunities for their organizations to get better, too. It finishes with a look at how Scrum could be applied beyond a single team and how the work of Scrum teams is integrated successfully with other parts of the organization. -
Mastering Professional Scrum
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ISBN: 9780134841526Publication Date: 2019-10-07Leading Scrum practitioners Stephanie Ockerman and Simon Reindl draw on years of Scrum training and coaching to help you return to first principles and apply Scrum with the professionalism required to achieve its transformative potential. The authors aim to help you focus on proven Scrum approaches for improving quality, getting and using fast feedback, and becoming more adaptable, instead of "going through the motions" and settling for only modest improvements. Whether you're a Scrum Master, Development Team member, or Product Owner, you'll find practical advice for facing challenges with transparency and courage, overcoming a wide array of common challenges, and continually improving your Scrum practice. -
Scrum: Novice to Ninja
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ISBN: 9780994346919Publication Date: 2016-02-16Why should you use Scrum in your web projects? Simply put, it'll enable your team to get more done in less time. Scrum is the most popular agile project management methodology used in web projects today. While most Scrum books tend to be lengthy textbooks that cover every detail of Scrum for all types of organizations, this highly practical book concentrates solely on how best to apply Scrum in web and mobile development projects. In it, you'll learn: An overview of Scrum fundamentals for web and mobile projects Get familiar with Scrum's roles: Scrum master, product owner, team members, and interested observers Understand Scrum's rituals: sprint planning meetings, daily standups, work process, demos, and sprint retrospectives Gain a thorough understanding of the tools used in Scrum: burndown charts, story cards, sprint backlogs Troubleshoot typical Scrum issues -
Scrum
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ISBN: 9780385346450Publication Date: 2014-09-30If you've ever been startled by how fast the world is changing, the Scrum framework is one of the reasons why. Productivity gains in workflow of as much as 1,200 percent have been recorded, and there's no more lucid--or compelling--explainer of Scrum and its bright promise than Jeff Sutherland. The thorny problem that Sutherland began tackling back then boils down to this: People are spectacularly bad at doing things with agility and efficiency. Best-laid plans go up in smoke. Teams often work at cross-purposes to one another. And when the pressure rises, unhappiness soars. Woven with insights from martial arts, judicial decision making, advanced aerial combat, robotics, and Sutherland's experience as a West Point-educated fighter pilot, a biometrics expert, a medical researcher, an early innovator of ATM technology, and a C-level executive at eleven different technology companies, this book will take you to Scrum's front lines, where Sutherland's system has brought the FBI into the twenty-first century, helped support John Deere's supply chain amid a global pandemic and supply chain shortage, reduced poverty in the Third World, and even planned weddings and accomplished weekend chores.
