This presentation was presented at Regional Scrum Gathering South Asia 2015.

1. Scrum Dev
An effort towards development friendly Scrum
Practices
Jaya Shrivastava
Regional Scrum Gathering South Asia 2015

2. ● All life is an experiment. The more
experiments you make the better
Ralph Waldo Emerson

3. How are we doing today ?

4. Can we eat same food all the time?

5. Would you like to take the place of these
sculptures?

6. ● if we can’t behave same all the time at home, in
personal relation ship,can’t eat same food all the
time.Then this should be applicable to our day to day
workings too
Being monotonous is not
human nature

7. Agile Way of Working

8. We work in
with strict timelines

9. Recap: SCRUM based on Sprints

10. Sprint Cycles are monotonous
working environment
● Post few Sprints
(5+,10+)..everyones
situations will look
like this

11. Can Sprint Cycles be made interesting ?

12. But How ?

13. Some ideas worth Considering ?

14. How about Sprint Without Planning?

15. Just like any other game team

16. Or like these men in the movie 300

17. Oh ok… But how will I Plan for SPRINT
without Planning?
● NO NO Dont plan… Any planning will kill the very idea of Sprint without
Planning

18. Ask Scrum Teams to
● Pick the work
items from
Product backlog
based on own
their choice
● We’ll come to
know what they
did only on
demos

19. My experiment was Successful

20. Is there more ?

21. How about THEME Based Working Breaks?

22. THEMED Working Break: Test

23. Many other THEMED Working Break :
● Hackathon
● Architecture Runway
● Overall Design
● Ways of working
● and so on

24. My experiment was AGAIN Successful

25. its Just Started.. Its going to be
long long journey

26. THANKYOU
jaya@agileplusplus.com
t: @Agile_PlusPlus