What are the 5 Aspects of Scrum
- Organization
- Business Justification
- Quality
- Change
- Risk
What are the 2 Categories of Scrum Roles?
- Core Roles
- Non-Core Roles
What are Core Roles?
- Roles involved in producing projects, products or services
- People assigned Core Roles are fully committed to the Aspect
- They’re Responsible for the success of each project iteration & project as a whole
- They’re assigned to Product Owners, Scrum Masters & Scrum Teams
What is a Product Owner Responsible for?
- Acheiving max business value for projects
- Articulate customer requirements
- Maintaining business justification for a project
- Represents customer’s voice
What is Business Justification?
A Scrum Aspect vital for an organization to perform business assessments before the start of a project.
What are the Factors of Business Justification?
- Helps the key decision makers understand business needs for a change, product or service
- Value-Driven Delivery
- Uncertainty of results or outcomes
- Impossible to gurantee project’s success & completion
- Scrum attempts to start delivering results as early in the project as possible
- Provides opportunity for reinvestment
- Allows project’s objectives to process to change in case of business justification changes
What is Quality?
A Scrum Aspect that is the ability of the completed product or deliverables to meet the Acceptance Criteria & achieve the business value expected by the customer.
What are Factors for Continuous Improvement in Scrum?
- The team learns from experience & Stakeholder engagement to constantly keep the prioritized Product Backlog
- Prioritized Product Backlog is never complete until closure or termination of projects
- Changes to requirements reflect changes in the internal & external business environment allows the team to work & adapt to acheive those requirements
What are the Factors of Quality?
- Repetive testing requires work to be done in an incremental fashion through Sprints
- Errors are fixed right away
- Quality-related tasks are completed in the same Sprint
- Ensures quality is in any deliverable created as part of a Sprint
- Continuous Improvement with repetitive testing optimizes the probability of achieving expected quality levels
- Constant discussions between Scrum Core Team & Stakeholders including customers and users
- Ensures gaps between customers expectations from the project & actual deliverables produced is constantly reduced
What is Change?
A Scrum Aspect that every project, regardless of its method or framework that is used, is exposed to change.
What are Factors of Change?
Organizations should try to maximize benefits that arise from change & minimize Negative Impacts in accordance to Scrum Principles.
What does Scrum Acknowledge?
- Stakeholders may change their mind about what they want during the course of the project - Requirements Churn.
- Not always feasible for Stakeholders to define requirements during project initiation
- Scrum welcomes change by using short iterative Sprints
- It enables customers to interact with Scrum Team Members & view Deliverables as they are ready & even to change requirements if needed
What is Risk?
A Scrum Aspect that an uncertain event or set of events that can affect the objectives of a project & may contribute to its success or failure.
What is Positive Impact Risk?
Opportunity Risks
What is Negative Impact Risk?
Threats
Examples of Risk management
- A key investor backs off a project at a prime moment. The risk is affecting the project negatively
- Unless the project finds better investors willing to invest in a bigger & better way, it is an opportunity risk.
- Managing risk must be done proactively
- It is an iterative process that should begin at project initiation & continue throughout the project’s life cycle.
Standardized Risks should be what?
- Identified
- Evaluated
- Proper course of action is determined upon & acted upon
What are the 2 Standardized Risk Factors?
- Probability of each risk’s occurence
- Possible impact in the event of such occurences
What are the Possible Impact Factors?
- Risks with a High Probability & Impact Value are determined by multiplying both factors.
- Once a risk is identified, it is important to understand the risk in regard to the probable causes & potential effects if the risk occurs.
