Presentation by Anna Obukhova for Exigen Services webinar Scrum Pulse that was held online on February, 24 2011 Exigen Services webinars schedule is avialable at: http://www.exigenservices.ru/webinars

1. SCRUM Pulse Anna Obukhova, Project Manager Anna.Obukhova@exigenservices.com

2. Great to meet you! My name is Anna Obukhova More than 10 years in Software development, in Agile from 2004, Agile Project Manager from 2005. Managed Agile projects from 7 to 40 members, several projects simultaneously, consulting PM in the 60 project Agile program. Participating as SME in в Agile Center of ExcellenceinExigen Services. My previous webinar – Distributed Agile Nov 2010

3. Agenda Best Practices approach Standard practices and meetings in SCRUM What is Scrum Pulse Basic Scrum Pulse activities Additional activities Example ofScrum Pulse Different types of Pulse Using Pulse for capacity calculation How else we can use it

4. Scrum Standard Meetings

5. Sprint Pulse

6. Scrum Pulse Activities Initial Sprint Planning Daily Scrum Meetings Scrum Demo Retrospection Additional Scrum of Scrums Pre-planning SM/Architects/Designers synch meetings Risk review Dependency review Release meeting Project Steering group Program Steering group Celebrations

7. Sprint Pulse Generic Description

8. Sprint Pulse example

9. Production Sprint example

10. Pulse Types

11. Capacity calculation

12. Why it is useful Clear communication of process with the customer Agreed meeting time with defined output and input Ability to prepare for the meetings Planning of additional activities Different types of pulse depending on project stage Capacity calculation in advance (vacations, new members, customer visits all included) Calculation of communication load for specific role (PO, SM, dev, testers). Established routines Ability to manage flow between several responsible teams Ability to balance the load of the non-coding activities for best effectiveness.

13. Thank you. Question time.