What is Scrum? An Introduction to the Scrum Framework

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Eric Naiburg
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Introduction to
Professional Scrum

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Eric Naiburg - eric.naiburg@scrum.org
• Scrum.org Chief Operating Officer
• Author of
• UML for Mere Mortals
• UML for Database Design

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“Each time you toss out a ‘singing’ greeting card, you
are disposing of more computing power than existed
in the entire world before 1950.”
- Paul Saffo
First, Let’s Set Some Context

May you
live in
interesting
times
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Has COVID-19 Triggered the next turning point?
Taken from https://www.tasktop.com/blog/covid-19-triggered-the-turning-point/
Industrial Age Digital Age

And That Would Mean Change…
Age of Oil and Mass
Production
VS
Age of Software and Digital
Long term investment
planning horizons
Short term investment planning
horizons
Short term profit Mission and Impact
Efficiency (Scarcity) Innovation and opportunity
(abundance)
Specialism of labor Cross functional teams
Process control Self organization and
decentralization
Management is king Rise of the creator

If you are lucky!

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What is Professional Scrum?

Scrum has Reached the Age of 25
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Scrum forms the basis of the
majority of Agile approaches

Empirical Process Control
Defined
Process
Control

Deploy and
Measure
Build at Least
Part Of It
Evaluate
Possible Solutions
Understand
Desired Outcomes
Identify an
Opportunity
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Probe, Sense And Respond..
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Customers / Users
Stakeholders
Team

Principles & Values of Scrum
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Credit: ABN AMRO Bank N.V.

• Provides the WHY
• Something we strive for and it is
measurable when you have
attained it
• There is only one Product Goal
at a time
• Provides transparency when
planning, working and reviewing
• “How is this helping us move
towards our Product Goal?"
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It Starts With A Product Goal
Product Backlog
PBI
PBI
PBI
PBI
Product Goal
Commitment

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Then a Product Backlog
How we deliver on the
Product Goal is made
transparent in the Product
Backlog

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The Sprint
What can we do in the next 2 weeks?

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Daily Scrum Ensures Transparency
‘Scrummage’ Time
Every Day the Team meets
to re-plan the next 24 hours

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The Sprint Review and Retro
What Have We Done
in the 2 weeks?
And what can we do
better?

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It is As Simple As That!

• Product Owner - Maximizing the value
of the product and the Scrum Team
• Developers– Deliver the increment of
value (working together)
• Scrum Master – Helps PO, Developers
Team and Organization do ‘Scrum’
and be agile.
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And Three Accountabilities
The what, who, how changes
depending on the situation

Self-management must extend to everyone
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Development
Team
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Stakeholders
Scrum
Master
Product
Owner
Mutual respect
Shared values, goals, commitments
Interdependence
Mutually-agreed working agreements

Must have all the skills it needs to deliver a
done Increment – ideally more than one
team member has the competency.
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Scrum Team

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“Don’t be trapped by dogma – which is living with the
results of other people’s thinking.”
- Steve Jobs
What Does It All Mean ?

The Core Ideas Are Very Simple
Empirical
Empowered Teams
Improvement
• Empirical process drives a
different way of solving problems
• No longer run the system, but
instead do the least to learn
something
• Empowered teams that are
focused on a clear set of
outcomes
• Not ‘resources’ allocated to many
different things
• Improvement for the deliverable
and the way you work
• Nobody owns the process / product
other than the people doing it

And to do it right requires
Empirical
Self Organization
Improvement
Values
Learning
Discipline
Customer

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Summary
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• Post industrial knowledge work
requires a different way of working
• Scrum provides a foundation for the
post-industrial world
• The Scrum framework is focused on
• Empirical process
• Self Management
• Continuous Improvement
• To do it right you have to add
• Values
• Discipline
• Focus on customer outcomes
• Help each other do it
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Scrum
DO NOT LEAVE YOUR BRAIN AT HOME

Who is Scrum.org ?
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TRAINING
CERTIFICATION
ONGOING
LEARNING
THOUGHT
LEADERSHIP
Helping people and
teams solve
complex problems
Ken Schwaber
Scrum.org Founder,
Chairman and
Co-creator of Scrum
Consistent Global Community

Questions?

Thank you!
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Eric Naiburg
eric.naiburg@scrum.org

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