and interactions over Following a plan Responding to change over Source: www.agilemanifesto.org Comprehensive documentation Working software over Contract negotiation Customer collaboration over
Decide on release date and content • Be responsible for the profitability of the product (ROI) • Prioritize features according to market value • Adjust features and priority every iteration, as needed • Accept or reject work results
for enacting Scrum values and practices • Removes impediments • Ensure that the team is fully functional and productive • Enable close cooperation across all roles and functions • Shield the team from external interferences
testers, user experience designers, etc. • Members should be full-time • May be exceptions (e.g., database administrator) • Teams are self-organizing – Ideally, no titles but rarely a possibility • Membership should change only between sprints
they can commit to completing • Sprint backlog is created – Tasks are identified and each is estimated (1-16 hours) – Collaboratively, not done alone by the ScrumMaster • High-level design is considered As a vacation planner, I want to see photos of the hotels. Code the middle tier (8 hours) Code the user interface (4) Write test fixtures (4) Code the foo class (6) Update performance tests (4)
Stand-up • Not for problem solving – Whole world is invited – Only team members, ScrumMaster, product owner, can talk • Helps avoid other unnecessary meetings
the sprint • Typically takes the form of a demo of new features or underlying architecture • Informal – 2-hour prep time rule – No slides • Whole team participates • Invite the world
and is not working • Typically 15–30 minutes • Done after every sprint • Whole team participates – ScrumMaster – Product owner – Team – Possibly customers and others
desired work on the project • Ideally expressed such that each item has value to the users or customers of the product • Prioritized by the product owner • Reprioritized at the start of each sprint This is the product backlog
to make a reservation 3 As a guest, I want to cancel a reservation. 5 As a guest, I want to change the dates of a reservation. 3 As a hotel employee, I can run RevPAR reports (revenue-per-available-room) 8 Improve exception handling 8 ... 30 ... 50
work will be focused on during the sprint Database Application Financial services Life Sciences Support features necessary for population genetics studies. Support more technical indicators than company ABC with real-time, streaming data. Make the application run on SQL Server in addition to Oracle.
of their own choosing – Work is never assigned • Estimated work remaining is updated daily • Any team member can add, delete or change the sprint backlog • Work for the sprint emerges • If work is unclear, define a sprint backlog item with a larger amount of time and break it down later • Update work remaining as more becomes known