GASPing Toward the Future: What's in Store for Scrum?

Scrum has never sat still. It evolves. One team tries something new, and it works so another team tries it. The ideas that succeed most often become part of Scrum and are embraced by new teams. In this presentation, Scrum Alliance co-founder and leading agile author Mike Cohn describes ideas that could be on the verge of becoming Generally Accepted Scrum Practices, including Continuous Delivery, a Backlog Grooming meeting, and Mike Cohn's keynote at Construx 2012 Seattle.

Definition of Ready. Along the way, he provides guidance on whether you should consider embracing each of these new practices and will present a glimpse into the future of Scrum.

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1. © Copyright Mountain Goat Software 1 GASPing Toward the Future: What’s in Store for Scrum? Mike Cohn 2012 Construx Software Executive Summit November 14, 2012 1
2. © Copyright Mountain Goat Software 2 Reviews Wish Lists Product backlog Sprint goal Gift Wrap Cancel Sprint backlog Up to 1 month Potentially shippable product increment Sprint Review Sprint Retrospective Scrum 2
3. © Copyright Mountain Goat Software 3 I’ve just thought of a great way my team can improve! I’ll tell them about it next week. 3
4. © Copyright Mountain Goat Software 4 Quick Overview of Scrum 1 Two Trends Driving Change 2 GASPing Toward the Future 3 4
5. © Copyright Mountain Goat Software 5 Scrum in Education 5
6. 6 John Miller “Generation Agile” 6
7. © Copyright Mountain Goat Software 7 “My students are in total control of their learning and they seemed to be annoyed with me when I have to tell them to stop. My students would scrum all day if I let them. In fact they try to, but I have to tell them we have other things to get done first. I call them ‘my little scrum monsters’ because they have grown so much and they are scrum crazy.” Kim Mills, CSM, 4th grade teacher “My little Scrum monsters” 7
8. © Copyright Mountain Goat Software 8 ‣ Validated learning over opinions and conventions ‣ Customer focused collaboration over silos and hierarchy ‣ Adaptive and iterative campaigns over Big-Bang campaigns Marketing Source: www.agilemarketingmanifesto.org © Copyright Mountain Goat Software 8
9. © Copyright Mountain Goat Software 9 ‣ The process of customer discovery over static prediction ‣ Flexible vs. rigid planning ‣ Responding to change over following a plan ‣ Many small experiments over a few large bets © Copyright Mountain Goat Software 9
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11. © Copyright Mountain Goat Software 11 Company Management 11
12. © Copyright Mountain Goat Software 12 “Should You Build Strategy Like You Build Software?” MIT Sloan Management Review, Spring 2008. ‣ Quarterly strategy sprints ‣ 45 managers and employees from all parts and levels of the company ‣ *G>71/::G
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13. © Copyright Mountain Goat Software 13 Construction Lean Construction I Collaborative design I Iterate I Structure work to maximize value and reduce waste I Focus on total value rather than reducing cost I Make things happen rather than just monitor 13
14. © Copyright Mountain Goat Software Families 14 14
15. © Copyright Mountain Goat Software 15 Quick Overview of Scrum 1 Two Trends Driving Change 2 GASPing Toward the Future 3 Scrum Beyond Software More Frequent Releases 15
16. © Copyright Mountain Goat Software 16 The Old Days 16
17. © Copyright Mountain Goat Software 17 Today 17
18. © Copyright Mountain Goat Software 18 Tomorrow 18
19. © Copyright Mountain Goat Software 19 1995 “Amazing!” 2012 “Why would I wait 30 days?” 2007 “Acceptable.” 2002 “Nice!” “Boss, we’ll give you working software in 30 days.” 19
20. © Copyright Mountain Goat Software 20 What used to be impressive has become commonplace. © Copyright Mountain Goat Software 20
21. © Copyright Mountain Goat Software 21 Continuous Delivery Continuous Integration Continuous Deployment System is built (and tested) whenever code is checked in System is delivered to the business on every check-in and could be easily released if desired System is released to users after every good build A Fairly Predictable Progression 21
22. © Copyright Mountain Goat Software 22 Quick Overview of Scrum Two Trends Driving Change GASPing Toward the Future 1 2 3 22
23. © Copyright Mountain Goat Software 23 www.AgileAtlas.org © Copyright Mountain Goat Software 23
24. © Copyright Mountain Goat Software 24 Example Rules ‣ Sprints cannot be longer than a month. ‣ Get together at the start of the A>@7<B
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25. © Copyright Mountain Goat Software 25 “If I’d foowed a the rules, I’d never have goen anywhere.” 25
26. © Copyright Mountain Goat Software 26 Test-Driven Development Pair Programming User Stories Backlog Grooming 3M<7B7=< of Done Don’t Start on Monday Sprint 0 A Lot More Than the Rules Task Boards 26
27. © Copyright Mountain Goat Software 27 Rules ‣If you aren’t doing these, you aren’t doing Scrum Good Ideas ‣Any idea a Scrum team 1=C:2
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28. 28 Good Ideas GASPs Software- Specific GASPs Test-Driven Development User Stories Pair Programming Backlog Grooming Don’t Start on Monday Sprint 0 Task Boards 28
29. © Copyright Mountain Goat Software 29 Good Ideas GASPs =;/7<)>317M1 GASPs Core of Scrum (The Rules) Graphically 29
30. © Copyright Mountain Goat Software 30 From Core to GASP 30
31. © Copyright Mountain Goat Software 31 Sprint Review 31
32. 32 Core Scrum GASPs From GASP to Core Scrum 3M<7B7=<
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33. 33 “The smallest quantity of some physical property, such as energy, that a system can possess.” Quantum TheFreeDictionary.com 33
34. © Copyright Mountain Goat Software Yearly Weekly Monthly Quarterly Hourly Daily 34 + Developer testing + Daily scrum + Cross-functional teams − Design documents − Change requests − Analyst team − Build team 
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35. ‣ When the sprint is compressed too much, teams lose the opportunity to seek creative solutions ‣ FB@3;3:G
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36. 36 Summary of Predictions ‣ Scrum will continue expanding outside software ‣ Releases will occur much more frequently ‣ Scrum’s “Body of Knowledge” will be collected (at least informally) as a set of rules, Generally Accepted Scrum Practices (GASPs), and plain ol’ good ideas ‣ =::31B7=<A
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37. Scrum Will Always Remain a Framework “When forced to work within a strict framework the imagination is taxed to its utmost—and wil produce its richest ideas. Given total fredom the work is likely to sprawl.” 37 37
38. © Copyright Mountain Goat Software 38 mike@mountaingoatsoftware.com www.mountaingoatsoftware.com .com/mountaingoatsoftware linkedin.com/in/mikewcohn twitter: mikewcohn (888) 61–AGILE Mike Cohn 38