What is watermelon reporting and how to overcome it.

1. Kaboom – Blow up your
watermelon
Marc Löffler (@scrumphony)

2. Marc Löffler
@scrumphony
http://blog.scrumphony.com
http://blog.sybit.de

3. Warning!!!
I may speak too fast....

4. Agenda
What is watermelon reporting?
What can we do about it?
A real life story
Conclusion

5. Agenda
What is watermelon reporting?
What can we do about it?
A real life story
Conclusion

8. Watermelon reporting occurs if...
...the status of a project is red but getting greener and
greener when climbing the hierarchy ladder.

9. Agenda
What is watermelon reporting?
What can we do about it?
A real life story
Conclusion

10. Transparency

11. Transparency
in Scrum

12. Sprint Backlog Sprint Burndown Backlog Burndown

13. Sprint Backlog Sprint Burndown Backlog Burndown
Not updated Not existent Not visible

15. If we already fail
with one team what
can we do if we
have multiple
teams?

16. Agenda
What is watermelon reporting?
What can we do about it?
A real life story
Conclusion

17. Overview

23. The problem
x =

24. Where would you
start?

25. What we did...

26. UX Team Kanban
Visualize the workflow

27. On project level „Master Board“

28. On project level Consolidated the backlogs

29. On management level
Agile
Dashboard

30. What the heck is an
agile dashboard???

31. Some kind of cockpit

32. Our agile dashboard

33. No space left...

35. Agenda
What is watermelon reporting?
What can we do about it?
A real life story
Conclusion

36. Transparency kills watermelon reporting

37. Mixing Scrum and Kanban works great...

38. x =
One watermelon and your transparency is gone

39. Questions...?

40. Thanks for your attention
Contact details
Sybit GmbH
Marc Löffler
marc.loeffler@sybit.de
http://blog.scrumphony.com
Twitter: @scrumphony