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