1. Scrum for BOND.
How do we do this in a
geographically distributed
teams.
Dennis Popov
depo@berlingskemedia.dk
14 Mar. 2011

2. Gold Sponsor of
DrupalCamp Kyiv 2011

3. Silver Sponsors of
DrupalCamp Kyiv 2011

4. Agenda
• Where we are
• SCRUM What is it ?
• How did it start with us ?
• How our teams are organized ?
• How do we do this?
• Where should we aim at?
• Bonus: Kanban

5. Where we are
• From 1 to 35 within 12 months
• 3 Drupal teams 2 mobile teams 1 magento
• Procedures and processes
• B.DK, BT.DK, AOK.DK, sporten.dk
• Main dev power

6. SCRUM. What is it?
This is not a shortened
SCRUM course but... i will
tell you
• What is is SCRUM
about
• How do we use it
• Share our best
practices and tweaks

7. SCRUM. What is it?
• A methodology for software
project development
• Lets you focus on most important
business values
• Business sets the priorities. Self
organized team decides on the
best technical way.
• Each sprint all parties interested
can see real functioning product
so to decide either to release it or
continue improvements in the
next sprint

8. SCRUM. What is it?
• Define teams
• Divide products by features
• Define business value
• Do a release plan
• Constantly optimize your
process

9. SCRUM. What is it?

10. How did it start ?
• 2009 big company, dear colleagues
• 2010 path of transformation and savings
• 2010 Ukraine as the best combination for
price, quality, sales

11. How did it start ?
• Right thinking. Like - minded persons
• Right procedures. Adjustments
• Right people. Interview, July 2010 first sprint

12. How our teams are organized

13. How our teams are organized

14. How do we do this
• Releases
• Estimations
• Planning
• Retrospectives

15. How do we do this
• Daily scrum, sharp schedule
• Overtimes are illegal
• One task not more than 2 days (16 hours)
• Importance instead of priority (importance can be
500 instead of priority 1)
• Pool (15% of sprint time) for urgent issues
• If you are sick you are in the sprints as a task!
• One task one team member 1:1
• Pare programming and discussions, workshops
• New features and areas are documented
• Same rules for everybody

16. How do we do this
with testing
• Tester tries to reproduce issue before
estimation session starts

17. How do we do this
with retrospectives
• Retrospective for distributed team

18. Where to aim
• Trust. That's nearly everything
• Sense of Urgency
• Good communications
• Process understanding
• Think out of the box
what else can i do ?
• One change a a time
• Constant improvements

19. What next ?
• What can i improve
for the company i am working in?
• What out of that will i do first?
• When will i do it ?

20. Thank you for your
attention!
questions ?
Dennis Popov
depo@berlingskemedia.dk
denys.popov@gmail.com
skype: celenia_dep

21. Read, try, feel
Peopleware
Management 3.0
Agile Project Management with Scrum
Agile Software Development with Scrum
Kanban и Scrum: getting best of both (Ru)
SCRUM games
mikogo, planning poker online
version one
Kniberg's blog
http://www.controlchaos.com/
http://scrumalliance.org/
Scrum Cheat sheet

22. Bonus: Kanban in 3 min.
Scrum board but with - workflow visualized and
• WIP limits
• Buffers
• Throughput speed