from specification to collaboration; one agency's move to scrum

FROM SPECIFICATION TO COLLABORATION

one agency’s move to scrumStephanie El-Hajj

WHAT IS SCRUM?

WHO DOES SCRUM?

THIS ISNT A HOW-TO TALK

(sorry)

What we’ve learnedWhat we do

How it’s worked for our team

Hi, I’m Stephanie

Project ManagerAmazee Labs Austin, Texas

Zurich, Switzerland

Austin, Texas

Cape Town, South Africa

Mostly Waterfall

Kinda Scrum, and remote

Also kinda Scrum

Vacation disruption/guilt

Single point of failure

Tasks bottleneckPROBLEMS WITH KNOWLEDGE LIVING ONLY IN ONE BRAIN

No tribal knowledge

On-boarding time suck

Sprint Start

Sprint End

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Sprint End Sprint End Sprint End Sprint End Sprint End

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Sprint End Sprint End Sprint End Sprint End Sprint EndX

WHAT WE DID ABOUT IT

2 teams

1 team

1 team

UNLEARN WHAT YOU

KNOW

WHAT CHANGED?

Team Testing

Scrum MasterRestructure Meetings

Story Points

Team Involvement

We talked to our clients and got client buy-in.

And then we trained them, too.

Sprint Start

Sprint End

Sprint Start

Sprint End✓

Sprint Estimation

Sprint Planning

Sprint Starts

Daily Standup Daily Standup

Daily Standup Daily Standup

*Backlog Grooming

Daily Standup

Sprint Estimation

Daily Standup

Sprint Board Review

Daily Standup

Daily Standup Sprint Retrospective

Client Demos

Bye-bye “Telephone”

Everyone attends meetings*

Estimating in ‘Annas’

Backlog Groomingeverybody makes tickets

acceptance criteria

definition of done

split tickets

make new tickets

priority - priority - priority

What business value does this provide? What are you hoping to accomplish?

What must be part of delivery?

We don’t write User Stories

JIRA

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Buy Hardware

Review migration fields

Implement new Person content type

Change asset field to have three options

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Make Case Study teasers editable

GREEN-99

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ATX-892

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ZRH-45

Implement Publications node

Finalize IA

Finalize Christmas Card

Spin up Dev Site

Implement translation nodequeue on Sales pages

Scrum & Coke Sprint 22

S&C Preferred for Sprint 23

Migration

Touchscreen

Touchscreen

ATX-802

ATX-923

ZRH-45

Work on FL logo and design

Improve D8 Starter with PL

Implement colorbox on department pages

Backlog

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Make the slider blue

Remove zero option facets

Buy Hardware

Review migration fields

Implement new Person content type

Change asset field to have three options

Images aren’t loading on the homepage slideshow

Make Case Study teasers editable

GREEN-99

PINK-35

ATX-892

PINK-36

ZRH-45

Implement Publications node

Finalize IA

Finalize Christmas Card

Spin up Dev Site

Implement translation nodequeue on Sales pages

Scrum & Coke Sprint 22

S&C Preferred for Sprint 23

Migration

Touchscreen

Touchscreen

ATX-802

ATX-923

ZRH-45

Work on FL logo and design

Improve D8 Starter with PL

Implement colorbox on department pages

Backlog

BLUE-143

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PINK-33

PINK-34

PINK-36

YELLOW-02

GREEN-92

GREEN-104

YELLOW-03

Make the slider blue

Remove zero option facets

Buy Hardware

Review migration fields

Implement new Person content type

Change asset field to have three options

Images aren’t loading on the homepage slideshow

Make Case Study teasers editable

GREEN-99

PINK-35

ATX-892

PINK-36

ZRH-45

Implement Publications node

Finalize IA

Finalize Christmas Card

Spin up Dev Site

Implement translation nodequeue on Sales pages

Scrum & Coke Sprint 22

S&C Preferred for Sprint 23

Migration

Touchscreen

Touchscreen

ATX-802

ATX-923

ZRH-45

Work on FL logo and design

Improve D8 Starter with PL

Implement colorbox on department pages

Backlog

HOW CRITICAL IS IT?

RETROSPECTIVE ≠ STITCH + BITCH

13

TESTING

TESTING TESTING

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Review migration fields

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Migration

Implement new Person content type

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Change asset field to have three options

YELLOW-02

Make Case Study teasers editable

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Make the slider blue

GREEN-92

Change the site to Wordpress

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HOW TEAM COMMUNICATION CHANGED

ALATX - T SWIZZLE / SWZ-32Update 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

Estimations are Estimations*

Establish a baseline

*Cost not Guaranteed

Let’s talk about Scrum

PUT IT IN WRITING

WHO PAYS FOR SCRUM?

hint: everyone

Line item: Strategy & Planning

TAKEAWAYS

Better testing Better product

Clear Communication

Clear Expectations

Efficiency (amazee.io)

Team Confidence

Clients Happy

Team is invested in

final product

Scrum

Scrum

Scrum

WE LIVED HAPPILY EVER AFTER

Thank you! Any questions?

@stephelhajj stephanie@amazeelabs.com