The Scrum is one
framework of implementing Agile. This framework is more popular than others
especially in Software development and delivery.
Scrum is a fixed
length cycle of iterative developments. Each cycle can be of 2 weeks or 1
month.These are like calendar months, which are fixed and cannot be change to
40 days or 20 days. Also like calendar months, if we do not have any work we
cannot remove them. Similarly developers cannot cancel the sprint. Rather they
will pull more work from backlog.
Scrum team has
only 3 roles. No less. No more.
Let’s find out details of each role -
Product Owner –
Business owner or Client. (Product owner cannot be BA or Any other team member.
This can be Client Manager / Sr. Client Manager Etc.)
Product owner is
responsible to get the value delivered in each sprint by the team members. He
will be collaborative and decision maker. He should be able to inform other
stake holders on overall progress and bring in the requirements in form of
suggestions.
Scrum Master – The facilitator.
May not be technical person, however will make sure scrum functions as
expected. He is not responsible for deliveries. He can neither take any
decisions to update any feature nor stop any deliveries for quality or
any other issues. He is responsible for
protecting team from external interference and checking if team is comfortable
to deliver.
He is meeting organizer and helping others to follow the norms so
that each meeting will be fruitful. He is a coach to impart agile values in
team members.
Development Team – This is self-organised team. This team consist
of all the remaining which includes BA, Architect, Developers, QA and anybody
else which is required to build shippable item. The responsibilities of
development team is to make sure within sprint they deliver quality item in
each iteration.
Within development team BAs help to understand and prepare
required documents, architect creates design; developers write code and QA test
the code. These all members work closely and collaboratively. In each Sprint (2
-4 weeks) all of them work together and create a shippable product. So at the
end of each sprint the Product owner if wish to release he can release the
developed work.
Scrum has following ceremonies. Ceremonies can be better
understood as functions to perform in each sprint (Every 2-4 weeks).
1. Sprint Planning
2. Daily Scrum meeting (Stand up)
3. Sprint review (Demo / Play back)
4. Sprint retrospective
5. Grooming
Sprint planning is 10% of the sprint time and happens at the
beginning of each sprint. So if we have 2 weeks sprint, i.e. 10 days then it
will be 1 day. Here all the stories (features / requirement) which can be
delivered with in sprint will be pulled in Sprint backlog. The tasks for each story
are created and hours of work are decided.
Daily Scrum is a daily 10 min discussion. Each development team
member and scrum master answers following 3 questions –
1. What did I do yesterday?
2. What will I do today?
3. Any issues (Impediments)
Any help is available within team will be proposed but will be
discussed after the scrum meeting.
Sprint review is 10% of the sprint time and happens before the end
of sprint. So it will be 1 day if we have 10 days sprint. Here all the work is
shown to product owner and he will accept the story if it is done.
Sprint retrospective is 10% of the sprint time and happens after
the review. This meeting is to check the learning. It is generally around
following questions –
1. What went well in this sprint?
2. What did not went well in this sprint?
3. What we will continue doing in next sprint?
Grooming is a meeting to discuss the product backlog. This happens
during sprint and takes 10% of sprint time. In grooming team goes back to
product backlog and looks at each product item to assign some high level
estimates in terms of story points, this will make the list more sequenced and
sorted.
If we look at the time distribution for 10 days (2 week) sprint,
actual work will be carried out in 6 full working days.
As a team each one is individually responsible to update the work
completed. And the burn down with remaining work is created and displayed on
floor.
The basic idea of Agile is around three towers –
1. Transparency
2. Inspection
3. Adaptability
Lot of work on Scrum is created across globe. Each team alters the
scrum to make it best fit; however as discussed basic concepts around it remain
the same.
It will be more interesting to read more on other agile process as
well.
Keep Practicing Scrum!
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