Scrum Theory and Principles

Scrum Theory

Introduction

• The foundation of Scrum is the Empirical Process
• Pillars are:
  • Transparency
  • Inspection
  • Adaptation

Transparency

• Openness between management and the team
  • Management is willing to speak good news and bad news to the team
  • Team is willing to speak good news and bad news to the team
• Information Radiators
  • What the team is working on and how they are working on it
  • Burndown Charts
  • Scrum Task Board

Inspection

• Reviewing the things that we've done

Adaptation

• Having done the inspection, what are we going to do about it?
• What are we going to change?

Scrum Core Principles

Self-Organization

• Agile teams don't have a lead
• Agile teams manage themselves
• Hackman's Four Levels of Teams
  • Manager-Led
  • Self-Organizing
  • Self-Designing
  • Self-Governing
• Team Topologies
  • Stream-aligned team
    • Focus on a single, impactful stream of work
  • Platform team
    • Platform teams create capabilities that can be used by many stream-aligned teams
  • Complicated-subsystem team
    • Builds and maintains a part of the system that depends on specific skills and knowledge
  • Enabling team
    • Specialists in a given technical or product domain - research and experiment and make informed suggestions

Collaboration

Value-Based Prioritization

Timebox

Iterative Development

Empirical Process Control

Scrum Values