This document discusses managing agile projects using Scrum. It provides an overview of Scrum, including common roles, artifacts, and events like sprints, sprint planning, daily scrums, sprint reviews, and retrospectives. It also discusses how project management practices from PMBOK like scope, schedule, cost can be addressed in Scrum, with the product backlog, release planning, and tracking work remaining. The document aims to explain how to use Scrum for managing agile software development projects.

1. Managing Agile Projects
Using Scrum
Tommy Norman
Systems Architect / Certified Scrum Master
tommy.norman@compuware.com

2. Agenda
1. Introductions
2. Overview of Agile Ideals
3. Scrum Process
4. Project Management in Scrum
5. Q & A
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3. Introductions
3

4. Tommy Norman
Systems Architect, Compuware Corporation
Certified Scrum Master, Agile Alliance
MVP Team System, Microsoft
Email: tommy.norman@compuware.com
Blog: www.tommynorman.com
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5. Agile Software
Development
5

6. What is Agile Software development?

7. Traditional “Waterfall” Approach
Analysis Design Develop Test Deploy

8. Agile Approach
Analysis Design Develop Test Deploy

9. Agile Approach
Analysis Test
Design
DevelopDeploy Analysis Test
Design
DevelopDeploy Analysis Test
Design
DevelopDeploy
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10. Agile Manifesto

11. Most Agile
methodologies
have similar
concepts.

12. Iterative
Development

13. Create Customer
Class
Add GetCustomer
Service Method
Refactor Customer
List UI
Working from Lists

14. Develop One
Small Feature
at a Time

15. Sustainable
Pace

16. Lean
Management
Hierarchy

17. Cross Functional
Self Organizing
Teams

18. Trusting your Team

19. Production Ready
Deliverables

20. Automated
testing and builds
(Continuous Integration).

21. Embracing
Change

22. Inspect
and
Adapt

23. Agile
“Methodologies”

24. Other, 21
Scrum, 49
XP, 8
Scrum/XP, 22

25. Scrum Overview
25

26. Roles
Scrum Master Scrum Team
Product Owner
Stakeholders &
Users

27. Artifacts
Product Vision Product Backlog Release Plan
Sprint
Sprint Backlog Burndown Impediment List

28. Sprint
Sprint
Project Review Product
Initiation Increment
Sprint
Planning
Sprint
Retrospective

29. Project
Initiation

30. Project Initiation
Business Case Product Vision Product Backlog
Scrum Team Release Plan

31. Sprint
Planning

32. Sprint Planning
Product Owner Product Backlog
Scrum Team Sprint Backlog

33. Sprint

34. Sprint (Daily Scrum)
Scrum Master Scrum Team
Sprint
Sprint Backlog Burndown Impediment List

35. Sprint (Development)
Continuous
Source Control Integration
Developer
Unit Testing Feature Testing

36. Product Backlog Maintenance
Product Owner Product Backlog
Stakeholders &
Scrum Team Users

37. Sprint
Review

38. Sprint Review
Finished
Product Owner Product Scrum Master
Stakeholders &
Scrum Team Users

39. Sprint
Retrospective

40. Sprint Retrospective
Product Owner Scrum Master
Stakeholders &
Scrum Team Users

41. Rinse
and Repeat

42. Sprint
Sprint
Project Review Product
Initiation Increment
Sprint
Planning
Sprint
Retrospective

43. Project
Management
in Scrum
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44. PMBOK

45. Process Groups
Initiation Planning Executing
Controlling Monitoring Closing

46. Knowledge Areas
Integration Scope Time
Cost Quality Resources
Communication Risk Procurement

47. Executing
Planning
Monitoring
Initiation
Sprint
Sprint
Review Product
Project
Initiation Increment
Sprint
Planning
Sprint Closing
Retrospective
Controlling

48. Business Analyst Project Manager
Product
Owner Scrum Master
Developer Architect
Stakeholders
Scrum Team & Users
Project Director
Tester

49. Scope, Risk, Cost Scope, Resources
Product Sprint
Backlog Backlog
Sprint
Burndown
Time, Communication

51. Muscle
Memory

52. Muscle
Memory

53. Scope
Quality
Cost Time

54. Scope

55. Product Backlog
Product Owner

56. Epic
Theme
Feature
User Story

57. User Stories
As a (role) I want Conditions of
(something) so Acceptance or
that (benefit). How to Demo

58. Estimating User Stories
Search Catalog
As a Registered User I want to search the
online catalog to find items to purchase.
Business Value: 800 Story Points: 4
Stakeholders
& Users Scrum Team

59. Sprint Zero
Architecture &
Product Backlog Release Plan Design
Continuous
Integration Feature(s)

60. Sprint Backlog
Scrum Team

61. Time

62. Project Planning
Product Backlog
3
Sprint 1 3
1
Release 1
3
Product Backlog
Sprint 2 1
3
3
Sprint 3 2
3
3
Release 2
Release Plan
Sprint 4
5
Sprint 5 8

63. Daily Scrum
Sprint Burndown

64. Sprint Task Board
User Stories Not Done In Progress Done Deferred
Do this Do this Do this
As a user I and and and
want this to that. that. that.
do that.
Do this
and
that.
As a user I Do this Do this
and and
want this to
that. that.
do that.
As a user I Do this Do this
and and
want this to
that. that.
do that.
Do this
and
that.

65. Work Hours Remaining 350 hrs.
Time
0 hrs.

66. Cost

67. Resources
Infrastructure
Software

68. More Resources = More Velocity?
8 12
16 16
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69. Scrum of
Scrums

70. Development QA Staging Production

71. Quality

72. Continuous Frequent
Integration Reviews
Software
Impediment List Craftsmanship

73. Scope
Quality
Cost Time

74. Questions?
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75. THANK
YOU!

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