1. Spotlight
PPM
Webinar
Effec5ve
use
of
Scrum
with
Global
Teams
Wednesday,
August
21st
at
10:30
am
PDT
Synergyagile.com
Presented
by:
Marshall
Guillory,
President
and
Principal
Enabler,
Synergy
Agile
2. Topics
• Assump5ons
• Effec5ve
use
of
Scrum?
• Communica5on
• The
Leadership
Vacuum
• There
is
no
“I”
in
Scrum
• Process
• Tools
• Take
Away
3. Assump5ons
• Time-‐boxed
to
30
minutes
–
welcome
to
Scrum!
• Audience
knows
what
agile
Scrum
is?
If
not,
browse
on
over
to
the
scrumalliance.org
Website
and
also
learn
more
about
the
agile
revolu5on
at
synergyagile.com.
• You
have
read
the
presenter
bio
• Have
had
coffee
or
your
favorite
morning
wake
up
intake
4. Effec5ve
use
of
Scrum?
• “Scrum
is
a
simple
framework
for
effec5ve
team
collabora5on
on
complex
projects.
–
Scrum.org”
• Please
define
effec5ve
use
of
Scrum
– It
is
effec5ve
when
it
is
genera5ng
value
for
the
team,
the
project,
and
the
client
– When
the
teams
efforts
are
not
genera5ng
value,
the
team
is
not
effec5ve
– Don’t
blame
the
process
and
philosophy
• Value?
6. Communica5on
• Cliché?
Yes.
• Important?
S5ll
is.
Scrum
is
ineffec5ve
without
it.
• Not
just
what
we
say…we
heard
you,
but…
– Was
anything
received,
processed
and
consumed?
• Cultural
and
Language
Barriers
– Defeated
with
pa5ence
and
use
of
more
than
one
tool
and
format
– Frequency,
varia5on
– Quality
and
quan5ty
7. The
Leadership
Vacuum
• Observa5ons
on
failed
or
marginal
projects:
• Lack
of
leadership:
– Managers
– Team
/
Technical
leads
– Execu5ves
– Clients
• Scrum
Master
is
the
coach.
He
is
the
teams
spiritual
guide
and
should
drive
leadership
poten5al
in
stakeholders
8. There
is
no
“I”
in
Scrum
Managers
as
Enablers
and
Leaders
• Agree
to
enable
more
• Manage
less
• Lead
more
• Schedule
less
mee5ngs
• Understand
your
value
add
• Champion,
Defend
and
Crush
Nega5vity
for
the
Scrum
Team
Engineers
as
Self-‐Organized
Team
• Agree
to
communicate
• More
ofen
• More
concise
• Keep
up
with
tasks
and
documenta5on
• Understand
your
value
add
• Be
social,
par5cipate
in
the
process!
9. The
Home
Run
People,
processes,
and
tools
(technology)
drive
quality
in
products
and
services.
10. Process
• All
process
must
have
value
• One
size
does
not
fit
all
• We
must
be
able
to
measure
the
value
(benefit)
of
any
and
all
process.
• All
process
must
be
documented,
repeatable,
reliable,
and
consistent.
• Why?
– Processes
are
simply,
communica5ons
standards
– The
team
“language”
– ins5nct
–
you
know
the
previous
and
next
step
if
you
know
the
process
– Process
intui5on
-‐
velocity
• Scrum
–
as
a
philosophy
rather
than
a
checklist
Process
for
the
sake
of
process,
is
not
progress.
11. Tools
• All
tools
must
have
value
• One
tool
does
not
fit
all
problems
• Tools
are
not
always
the
answer
• No
value
if
not
used!
• Analogy:
Using
a
hammer
to
drive
a
screw
vs.
a
hammer
to
cut
a
board
• Binary
usage
• Why?
– Efficiency
– Collabora5on
– Communica5on
– System
of
record
• Document
Management
• RQM
• Task
Tracking
• Video
Conferencing
• Spotlight
PPM
12. Take
Away
• Focus
on
enabling
leadership
poten5al
to
become
a
real
driving
affect
on
projects
• Engage
only
the
processes
that
you
need
• Choose
the
right
tool
for
the
job
13. References
• A
study
in
project
failure
• Scrumalliance.org
• Scrum.org
• The
Standish
Group
Chaos
Report
• Contact:
marshall@synergyagile.com
