What characteristics should Scrum Teams have?
They should be self-organized and cross-functional.
What is team model designed to optimize?
- Flexibility
- Creativity
- Productivity
What is a self-organized team?
They choose how best to accomplish their work without direction from anyone outside of the team.
What is a cross functional team?
Teams have all competencies needed to accomplish the work without depending on others outside of the team.
What does the Scrum Team deliver?
- Products iteratively and incrementally to maximize on feedback opportunities.
- Incremental deliveries of “Done” product to ensure a potentially useful version of a working product is avail.
What do Product Owners do?
- Maximizes the value of the product resulting from the work of the Dev Team.
- The method varies widely.
- Is solely responsible for management of product backlog.
How many people are on the Product Owner committee?
1!
The product owner may represent a committee in the Product backlog, but anyone wanting to change that log must speak with the product owner.
What is needed for Product Owners to succeed?
- Respect for his or her decisions.
- Product owner decisions are visible in the product backlog and order of it and no one can force the dev team to work from a different req. set.
What is involved in product backlog management? Pt 1
- Clear expression of product backlog items
- Ordering the items in the product backlog to best achieve goals and missions
- Optimizing the value of the work the dev team performs
What is involved in product backlog management? Pt 2
- Ensuring that the product backlog is visible, transparent, and clear to all, and shows what the scrum team will work on next.
- Ensuring the dev team understands items in the product backlog to the level needed.
What is a Dev Team?
A team of professionals who do the work of delivering a potentially releasable increment of “done” product at the end of each sprint.
What do organizations empower dev teams to do and why?
Organize and manage their own work..
To optimize the dev teams overall efficiency and effectiveness.
What size should a dev team be?
Small enough to be nimble but large enough to complete significant work in a sprint.
What happens if the team is too small?
- Interaction decreases and as result so does productivity.
2. Skill restraints are possible effecting the teams ability to produce a potentially releasable increment.
What happens if a team is too LARGE?
- Coordination becomes hard.
2. Generate too much complexity for an empirical process to be useful.
What are Dev Team Characteristics? Pt 1
- Self Organizing.
- Cross-functional with all necessary skills in the team to create product increment.
- No matter work being done, titles are not recognized.
What are Dev Team Characteristics? Pt 2
- No subteams are recognized in the dev team regardless of domains that need addressing ie; testing, architecture, operations or business analysis
- No matter individual skills, whole team is accountable.
WHAT DO SCRUM MASTERS DO?
- Promotes and supports scrum as defined in the guide.
- Helps everyone understand scrum theory, practices, rules and values.
- Performs a servant leader role.
- 3, Helps outsiders understand which interactions are helpful and which aren’t.
- Helps everyone change interactions to maximize the value created by the team.
HOW DO SCRUM MASTERS HELP THE PRODUCT OWNER? Pt 1
- Ensure that everyone understand goals scope and product domain as well as possible.
- Finds techniques for effective backlog management
3 Helps team understand the need for clear and concise product backlog items.
HOW DO SCRUM MASTERS HELP THE PRODUCT OWNER? Pt 2
- Ensuring Product Owner knows ho to arrange the product backlog to maximize value.
- Understanding and Practicing Agility
- Facilitating scrum events as requested or needed
HOW DO SCRUM MASTERS HELP THE DEV Team? Pt 1
- Coaching the Dev team in self-organization and cross-fuctionality.
- Helping the dev team create high-value products
- Removing impediments to the dev teams progress
HOW DO SCRUM MASTERS HELP THE DEV Team? Pt 2
- Facilitating scrum events as requested or needed.
5. Coaching the dev team in organizational environments where scrum is not yet fully adopted and understood.
HOW DO SCRUM MASTERS HELP THE ORGANIZATION? Pt 1
- Leading and coaching the organization in scum adoption.
- Planning scrum implementations within the organization
- Helping employees and stakeholders understand and enact scrum and empirical product dev.
HOW DO SCRUM MASTERS HELP THE DEV Team? Pt 2
- Causing change that increases the productivity of the scrum team
- Working with other scrum masters to increase the effectiveness of the application of scrum in the organization.d
