Scrum: From the Books to the Reality :: Agile Connect Aveiro 2017

1. Scrum: From the Books to the Reality
Agile Connect Aveiro
April 2017

3. Pedro Gustavo Torres
• Engineering Director @
• Working in Agile echosystems since 2010

4. Pedro Gustavo Torres
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5. Pedro Gustavo Torres

6. Pedro Gustavo Torres

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8. What is Agile?

9. Agile Onion

10. Agile Manifesto

11. What is Scrum?

12. Scrum was “born” more than 20 years a go

13. Team
• Product Owner
• Scrum Master
• Development Team
Artifacts
• Product Backlog
• Sprint Backlog
• Increment
• Definition of Done
(Transparency)
Events
• The Sprint
• Sprint Planning
• Daily Scrum
• Sprint Review
• Sprint Retrospective
Scrum in a (Scrum Guide, July 2016)
Framework / Empirical process (Inspection, Adaption, Transparency)
Values
• Commitment
• Courage
• Focus
• Openness
• Respect

14. Two brief rants

15. Scrum is a Framework

16. Scrum is not a Methodology

17. It’s Scrum and not SCRUM

18. What about Books?

19. What do these books have in common?

20. It seems so easy…

21. We are all going to be successful!

22. What about Reality?

23. Well the reality…

24. And probably not so successful

25. Companies transition to Agile

26. Usually just to be able to say: “We are Agile!”

27. So no wonder there is 94% adoption of Agile

28. And what do these entities have in common?

29. Everybody goes home thinking they can
change the world

30. And what do these events have in common?

31. Tons of success cases

32. And that makes us feel

33. Guess what… It’s hard to change the world

34. And those cases are not that successful

35. “Someone” from the Scrum Alliance in 2016
• Companies around the globe struggle with the implementation of
Agile
• “…It takes at least 2 years to start to get comfortable with the
uncomfortable…”

36. Why is so hard?

37. People are too busy to change

38. Companies measure resource utilization

39. Watch the baton not the runner

40. And some people don’t even want to change

41. Don’t take change lightly

42. What about companies that were born Agile?

43. It’s easier… but even those

44. So how can we be sucessful?

45. You need luck!

46. Also perseverance
Man o’ War saying: “it's not about how you fall but how you get up”
Pedro Gustavo Torres, 2014

47. And never to show fear

48. Use story points

49. Forget about time in tasks

50. Forget about time in tasks

51. Forget about complex science for velocity

52. Use #NoEstimates

53. Use Timeboxed meetings

54. Use vertical teams
1999 UEFA Champions League Final
Manchester United vs Bayern Munich

55. Use vertical slices

56. Use Extreme Programming (XP)

57. Use Mob Programming

58. Use DevOps Culture

59. Use Kanban

60. Use Autonomy, Mastery, Purpose

61. Autonomy, Mastery, Purpose in action

62. Use Patterns (www.scrumplop.org)

63. Hazards ahead?

64. Agile Competence Center vs Community
• Center of competence / excellence • Autonomous Units with a Community

65. Agile KPIs

66. Scrum and Consultancy?

67. Scrum and Legacy?

68. Estimating in time = false sense of security

69. Copying practices (e.g. model) aka the Cargo Cult

70. Last advice?

71. Never give up!

72. Regardless of the number of failed attempts

73. One day you will be sucessful

74. Scrum: From the Books to the Reality
Agile Connect Aveiro
Thank You!