FROM SPECIFICATION TO COLLABORATION one agencys move to scrum - PowerPoint PPT Presentation

FROM SPECIFICATION TO COLLABORATION one agency’s move to scrum Stephanie El-Hajj

WHAT IS SCRUM?

WHO DOES SCRUM?

THIS ISNT A HOW-TO TALK (sorry)

What we’ve What we do learned How it’s worked for our team

Hi, I’m Stephanie Amazee Labs Project Manager Austin, Texas

Zurich, Switzerland Austin, Texas Cape Town, South Africa

Mostly Waterfall Kinda Scrum, and remote Also kinda Scrum

PROBLEMS Tasks bottleneck WITH Single point of failure KNOWLEDGE Vacation disruption/guilt LIVING No tribal knowledge ONLY IN On-boarding time suck ONE BRAIN

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WHAT WE DID ABOUT IT

2 teams 1 team 1 team

UNLEARN WHAT YOU KNOW

WHAT CHANGED?

Restructure Team Scrum Master Meetings Involvement Story Points Team Testing

We talked to our clients and got client buy-in. And then we trained them, too.

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Sprint Estimation Daily Standup Daily Standup Sprint Planning Sprint Starts Daily Standup Daily Standup Daily Standup Daily Standup Daily Standup *Backlog Sprint Estimation Sprint Board Grooming Review Daily Standup Sprint Retrospective Client Demos

Bye-bye “Telephone” Everyone attends meetings*

Estimating in ‘Annas’

Backlog Grooming everybody makes tickets acceptance criteria definition of done split tickets make new tickets priority - priority - priority

We don’t write User Stories What business value does this provide? What are you hoping to accomplish ? What must be part of delivery?

JIRA

PINK PINK BLUE GREEN RED YELLOW PURPLE ATX Unassigned Scrum & Coke Sprint 22 Remove zero option facets BLUE-143 Touchscreen PINK-33 Buy Hardware Migration PINK-34 Review migration fields PINK-36 Implement new Person content type Change asset field to have three options YELLOW-02 GREEN-92 Make the slider blue Images aren’t loading on the homepage slideshow GREEN-104 Make Case Study teasers editable YELLOW-03 S&C Preferred for Sprint 23 GREEN-99 Implement Publications node Touchscreen PINK-35 Finalize IA ATX-892 Finalize Christmas Card PINK-36 Spin up Dev Site ZRH-45 Implement translation nodequeue on Sales pages Backlog ATX-802 Work on FL logo and design ATX-923 Improve D8 Starter with PL ZRH-45 Implement colorbox on department pages

PINK PINK BLUE GREEN RED YELLOW PURPLE ATX Unassigned Scrum & Coke Sprint 22 Remove zero option facets BLUE-143 Touchscreen PINK-33 Buy Hardware Migration PINK-34 Review migration fields PINK-36 Implement new Person content type Change asset field to have three options YELLOW-02 GREEN-92 Make the slider blue Images aren’t loading on the homepage slideshow GREEN-104 Make Case Study teasers editable YELLOW-03 S&C Preferred for Sprint 23 GREEN-99 Implement Publications node Touchscreen PINK-35 Finalize IA ATX-892 Finalize Christmas Card PINK-36 Spin up Dev Site ZRH-45 Implement translation nodequeue on Sales pages Backlog ATX-802 Work on FL logo and design ATX-923 Improve D8 Starter with PL ZRH-45 Implement colorbox on department pages

PINK PINK BLUE GREEN RED YELLOW PURPLE ATX Unassigned Scrum & Coke Sprint 22 Remove zero option facets BLUE-143 Touchscreen PINK-33 Buy Hardware Migration PINK-34 Review migration fields PINK-36 Implement new Person content type Change asset field to have three options YELLOW-02 GREEN-92 Make the slider blue Images aren’t loading on the homepage slideshow GREEN-104 Make Case Study teasers editable YELLOW-03 S&C Preferred for Sprint 23 GREEN-99 Implement Publications node Touchscreen PINK-35 Finalize IA ATX-892 Finalize Christmas Card PINK-36 Spin up Dev Site ZRH-45 Implement translation nodequeue on Sales pages Backlog ATX-802 Work on FL logo and design ATX-923 Improve D8 Starter with PL ZRH-45 Implement colorbox on department pages

HOW CRITICAL IS IT?

RETROSPECTIVE ≠ STITCH + BITCH

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TESTING TESTING TESTING

PINK PINK BLUE GREEN RED YELLOW PURPLE ATX Unassigned PINK-33 PINK-34 BLUE-143 Review migration Remove zero Buy Hardware fields option facets Migration Touchscreen PINK-36 YELLOW-02 Implement new GREEN-104 Person content type Change asset field Images aren’t loading to have three options on the homepage slideshow YELLOW-03 YELLOW-12 Make Case Study Change the site teasers editable to Wordpress GREEN-92 Make the slider blue

HOW TEAM COMMUNICATION CHANGED

ALATX - T SWIZZLE / SWZ-32 Update the company cups for Christmas - NOT RED sending back, they’re not loving the red aha, swifty’s fans only use iOS, will test harder on testing link: http://starbuckslovers.dev.us1.compact.amazee.io

meetings that don’t suck

HOW REMOTE COLLABORATION CHANGED

CLIENT

HOW OUR PROPOSALS CHANGED

PUT IT IN WRITING Estimations are Estimations* Establish a baseline *Cost not Guaranteed Let’s talk about Scrum

WHO PAYS FOR SCRUM? hint: everyone

Line item: Strategy & Planning

TAKEAWAYS

Clear Communication Better testing Efficiency Better product (amazee.io) Clear Expectations Team Team is Confidence invested in final product Clients Happy

Scrum Scrum Scrum

WE LIVED HAPPILY EVER AFTER

Thank you! Any questions? @stephelhajj stephanie@amazeelabs.com