1. Agile ExecutivesAgile Executives
Incorporating Scrum in a Traditional Project
Management Environment
Kate Megaw
kate.megaw@braintrustgroup.com

2. Agile ExecutivesPMI MemphisKate Megaw, CST, PMP
• COO, The Braintrust Consulting Group
• BS Information Management from Queen’s University, Belfast
•15 years project management experience
• Agile coach, trainer, and consultant

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Think And Write
• What do you hope to
get from this
session?

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• Scrum tools
Goal for Today!
Tools for your toolkit!

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Scrum Framework

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• Scrum process core

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Daily Meeting

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• Daily Scrum
Daily Update (15 m)
Everyone shares with each other:
1. What did I do yesterday?
2. What am I going to do today?
3. What are my roadblocks/ risks?

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Retrospectives &
Lessons Learned

10. Retrospectives help
teams—even great
ones—keep
improving.
Esther Derby and Diana Larsen

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• Company milestones
Guideposts #1-5
1. Set the stage
2. Gather data
3. Look for patterns and
assign priority
4. Create an action plan
5. Follow-up and hold
people accountable

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• Take the teams temperature
Take The Teams…
Temperature

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• Pair share

14. Plus/Delta (+/∆)
• Plus (+)
• What worked well?
• Delta (∆)
• What do we need to improve?
• Practice – Commute to the meeting today

15. What
worked
well?
What didn’t
work so
well?
What might
we want to
do
differently
next trip?
Write:
1 item per post it
note – large,
clear writing
Put them up on
your flipchart
Grab a set of
postit notes and
a sharpie
Put a flipchart
page on the wall
and draw

16. Facilitator invites attendees to talk about
what they’ve put on the wall

17. • Affinity mapping
Group Like Items

18. • Dot voting
Dot Voting

19. Action Plan
Hold Each Other Accountable

20. Try new
formats…..be
creative!

21. Keep Doing Stop Doing
Start Doing

22. PDU Retrospective
P – Positive
(what are all the positive things
about this event?)
D – Different
(what could be done differently?)
U – Useful
(what useful tips, tricks & tools are
you taking back to work next
week?)

23. Learning Matrix Retrospective
 
Agile Retrospectives: Making Good
Teams Great. Esther Derby, Diana Larsen

24.  
Keep
Doing
Stop
Doing
Start
Doing
P – Positive
D – Different
U – Useful

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• Pair share

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• Burning questions

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Retrospective Ideas:
• http://retrospectivewiki.org/
• http://www.plans-for-retrospectives.com/
Remote Team Retrospective Tools:
• http://www.listhings.com/
• http://www.innovationgames.com/

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