Since implementing Scrum, we eliminated the bottleneck of a single technical lead, specifying everything at the beginning of a project, brought clients and developers together, and improved the accuracy of work estimations In this session, I'll share our experience of adopting Scrum as an Agile development framework, what's worked, what's been hard, and what we've tweaked to work for us. Session link (w/ video): https://2016.badcamp.net/session/specification-collaboration-one-agencys-move-scrum

1. FROM SPECIFICATION
TO COLLABORATION
one agency’s move to scrum
Stephanie El-Hajj

2. WHAT IS SCRUM?

3. WHO DOES SCRUM?

4. THIS ISNT
A HOW-TO TALK
(sorry)

5. What we’ve
learned
What we do
How it’s
worked for
our team

6. Hi, I’m Stephanie
Project ManagerAmazee Labs Austin, Texas

7. Zurich,
Switzerland
Austin, Texas
Cape Town,
South Africa

8. Mostly
Waterfall
Kinda Scrum,
and remote
Also kinda
Scrum

9. Vacation disruption/guilt
Single point of failure
Tasks bottleneckPROBLEMS
WITH
KNOWLEDGE
LIVING
ONLY IN
ONE BRAIN
No tribal knowledge
On-boarding time suck

11. Sprint Start
Sprint End

12. Sprint Start Sprint Start Sprint Start Sprint Start Sprint Start
Sprint End Sprint End Sprint End Sprint End Sprint End

13. Sprint Start Sprint Start Sprint Start Sprint Start Sprint Start
Sprint End Sprint End Sprint End Sprint End Sprint End
X

15. WHAT WE DID ABOUT IT

17. 2 teams
1 team
1 team

18. UNLEARN
WHAT YOU
KNOW

19. WHAT CHANGED?

21. Team Testing
Scrum Master
Restructure
Meetings
Story Points
Team
Involvement

22. We talked to our clients and got client buy-in.
And then we trained them, too.

23. Sprint Start
Sprint End

24. Sprint Start
Sprint End
✓

25. Sprint Estimation
Sprint Planning
Sprint Starts
Daily Standup Daily Standup
Daily Standup Daily Standup
*Backlog
Grooming
Daily Standup
Sprint Estimation
Daily Standup
Sprint Board
Review
Daily Standup
Daily Standup Sprint
Retrospective
Client Demos

26. Bye-bye “Telephone”
Everyone attends meetings*

27. Estimating in ‘Annas’

29. Backlog Grooming
everybody makes tickets
acceptance criteria
definition of done
split tickets
make new tickets
priority - priority - priority

30. What business value does this provide?
What are you hoping to accomplish?
What must be part of delivery?
We don’t write User Stories

31. JIRA

32. BLUE-143
PINK BLUE GREEN RED YELLOW PURPLE ATX UnassignedPINK
PINK-33
PINK-34
PINK-36
YELLOW-02
GREEN-92
GREEN-104
YELLOW-03
Make the slider blue
Remove zero option facets
Buy Hardware
Review migration fields
Implement new Person content type
Change asset field to have three options
Images aren’t loading on the homepage slideshow
Make Case Study teasers editable
GREEN-99
PINK-35
ATX-892
PINK-36
ZRH-45
Implement Publications node
Finalize IA
Finalize Christmas Card
Spin up Dev Site
Implement translation nodequeue on Sales pages
Scrum & Coke Sprint 22
S&C Preferred for Sprint 23
Migration
Touchscreen
Touchscreen
ATX-802
ATX-923
ZRH-45
Work on FL logo and design
Improve D8 Starter with PL
Implement colorbox on department pages
Backlog

33. BLUE-143
PINK BLUE GREEN RED YELLOW PURPLE ATX UnassignedPINK
PINK-33
PINK-34
PINK-36
YELLOW-02
GREEN-92
GREEN-104
YELLOW-03
Make the slider blue
Remove zero option facets
Buy Hardware
Review migration fields
Implement new Person content type
Change asset field to have three options
Images aren’t loading on the homepage slideshow
Make Case Study teasers editable
GREEN-99
PINK-35
ATX-892
PINK-36
ZRH-45
Implement Publications node
Finalize IA
Finalize Christmas Card
Spin up Dev Site
Implement translation nodequeue on Sales pages
Scrum & Coke Sprint 22
S&C Preferred for Sprint 23
Migration
Touchscreen
Touchscreen
ATX-802
ATX-923
ZRH-45
Work on FL logo and design
Improve D8 Starter with PL
Implement colorbox on department pages
Backlog

34. BLUE-143
PINK BLUE GREEN RED YELLOW PURPLE ATX UnassignedPINK
PINK-33
PINK-34
PINK-36
YELLOW-02
GREEN-92
GREEN-104
YELLOW-03
Make the slider blue
Remove zero option facets
Buy Hardware
Review migration fields
Implement new Person content type
Change asset field to have three options
Images aren’t loading on the homepage slideshow
Make Case Study teasers editable
GREEN-99
PINK-35
ATX-892
PINK-36
ZRH-45
Implement Publications node
Finalize IA
Finalize Christmas Card
Spin up Dev Site
Implement translation nodequeue on Sales pages
Scrum & Coke Sprint 22
S&C Preferred for Sprint 23
Migration
Touchscreen
Touchscreen
ATX-802
ATX-923
ZRH-45
Work on FL logo and design
Improve D8 Starter with PL
Implement colorbox on department pages
Backlog

35. HOW CRITICAL IS IT?

36. RETROSPECTIVE ≠ STITCH + BITCH

37. 13

38. TESTING
TESTING
TESTING

39. PINK BLUE GREEN RED YELLOW PURPLE ATX UnassignedPINK
BLUE-143
Remove zero
option facets
Images aren’t loading
on the homepage
slideshow
GREEN-104
Buy Hardware
PINK-33
Touchscreen
Review migration
fields
PINK-34
Migration
Implement new
Person content type
PINK-36
Change asset field
to have three options
YELLOW-02
Make Case Study
teasers editable
YELLOW-03
Make the slider blue
GREEN-92
Change the site
to Wordpress
YELLOW-12

40. HOW TEAM COMMUNICATION
CHANGED

42. ALATX - T SWIZZLE / SWZ-32
Update the company cups for Christmas - NOT RED
sending back, they’re not loving the red
aha, swifty’s fans only use iOS, will test harder on
testing link: http://starbuckslovers.dev.us1.compact.amazee.io

43. meetings that
don’t suck

44. HOW REMOTE COLLABORATION
CHANGED

47. CLIENT

48. HOW OUR PROPOSALS CHANGED

49. Estimations are Estimations*
Establish a baseline
*Cost not Guaranteed
Let’s talk about Scrum
PUT IT IN WRITING

50. WHO PAYS FOR SCRUM?
hint: everyone

51. Line item: Strategy & Planning

52. TAKEAWAYS

53. Better testing
Better product
Clear
Communication
Clear
Expectations
Efficiency
(amazee.io)
Team
Confidence
Clients Happy
Team is
invested in
final product

54. Scrum
Scrum
Scrum

55. WE LIVED HAPPILY
EVER
AFTER

56. Thank you!
Any questions?
@stephelhajj stephanie@amazeelabs.com