IMPLEMENTING SCRUM - HOW TO BEGIN

Scrum is one of the most popular Agile methodologies evolving in all aspects. It is an adaptive, fast, flexible, incremental, iterative, and effective methodology that was designed to deliver outstanding values quickly throughout a project. Scrum is responsible to maintain transparency of communication throughout the continuous progress of a project.

Scrum is a framework for developing, delivering, and sustaining complex products. It is essentially a framework wherein people can address complex, adaptive problems. At the same time, they can deliver products of the highest possible value in a productive and creative manner.

Scrum is an iterative and incremental structure for project management mainly used in agile software development. The scrum methodology indicates functional software, and the versatility to change accompanying emerging communication, collaboration, and business realities.

Scrum…

• Can be implemented easily
• Works for both simple and complex projects effectively
• Aids in providing fast response to changing requirements
• Fosters creativity and innovation
• Helps the development team work fast to implement solutions
• Reduces overall project cost
• Ensures customer satisfaction and employee satisfaction
• Promotes flexibility and adaptability
• Reduces time to market
• Enhances bottom line margins
• Can be implemented even if teams are distributed
• Works not just for the IT sector but several other sectors and industries like healthcare, sales, government, insurance, and more
• Motivates team members and gives them a sense of satisfaction.

Why Scrum?

We first created Scrum, with Ken Schwaber, twenty years ago, as a faster, more reliable, more effective way to create software in the tech industry. Up to that point and even as late as 2005—most software development projects were created using the Waterfall method, where a project was completed in distinct stages and moved step by step toward ultimate release to consumers or software users. The process was slow and unpredictable, and often never resulted in a product that people wanted or would pay to buy. Delays of months or even years were endemic to the process. The early step-by-step plans laid out in comforting detail in Gantt charts, reassured management that we were in control of the development process—but almost without fail, we would fall quickly behind schedule and disastrously over budget.

To overcome those faults, in 1993 we invented a new way of doing things: Scrum.

It is a radical change from the prescriptive, top-down project management methodologies of the past. Scrum, instead, is akin to evolutionary, adaptive, and self-correcting systems. Since its inception, the Scrum framework has become the way the tech industry creates new software and products. But while Scrum has become famously successful in managing software and hardware projects in Silicon Valley, it remains relatively unknown in general business practice. And that is why we wrote Scrum: to reveal and explain the Scrum management system to businesses outside the world of technology. In the tutorial we talk about the origins of Scrum in the Toyota Production System and the OODA loop of combat aviation. We discuss how we organize projects around small teams—and why that is such an effective way to work. We explain how we prioritize projects, how we set up one-week to one-month “sprints” to gain momentum and hold everyone on the team accountable, and how we conduct brief daily stand-ups to keep tabs on what has been done and on the challenges that have inevitably cropped up. And how Scrum incorporates the concepts of continuous improvement and minimum viable products to get immediate feedback from consumers, rather than waiting until a project is finished. As you’ll see in the pages that follow, we’ve used Scrum to build everything from affordable 100-mile-pergallon cars to bringing the FBI database systems into the twenty-first century.

Read on. We think you’ll see how Scrum can help transform how your company works, creates, plans, and thinks. We firmly believe that Scrum can help to revolutionize how business works in virtually every industry, just as it has revolutionized innovation and speed to market at a dazzling array of new companies and a breath-taking range of new products emerging out of Silicon Valley and the world of technology.

Scrum Guide 2020 - The Changes

Key Points:

- Scrum is still Scrum.

- One Team, One Product.

- More focused, more inclusive, less prescriptive.

- More focus on value and goals.

- Now only 14 pages.

Scrum is still Scrum.

- Scrum is a lightweight framework that helps people, teams and organizations generate value through adaptive solutions for complex problems.

- Scrum is simple. Try it as is and determine if its philosophy, theory, and structure help to achieve goals and create value.

- The Scrum framework is purposefully incomplete, only defining the parts required to implement Scrum theory.

- Scrum is built upon the collective intelligence of the people using it. Rather than provide people with detailed instructions, the rules of Scrum guide their relationships and interactions.

- Scrum is founded on empiricism and lean thinking.

Important links

Scrum Guide 2020

• https://www.scrumguides.org/download.html .

• https://www.scrumguides.org/scrum-guide.html .

Product goal

• https://www.scrum.org/resources/blog/scrum-guide-2020-update-introducing-product-goal .

Commitments

• https://www.scrum.org/resources/blog/scrum-guide-2020-update-commitments .

Self Management

• https://www.scrum.org/resources/blog/scrum-guide-2020-update-self-mgt-replaces-self-organization .

Accountabilities

• https://www.scrum.org/resources/blog/scrum-guide-2020-update-role-accountabilities .

Simplification of the Guide

https://www.scrum.org/resources/blog/scrum-guide-2020-update-what-has-been-removed .