bill krebs - 10 years of scrum meetings
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10 YEARS OF SCRUM MEETINGS
William Krebs, Agile Dimensions LLC© 2010 Agile Dimensions LLC
AgileBill Krebs
IBM Developer ’83-09 Founder of Agile Dimensions Rockcliffe Board of Directors Internal Agile Coach at
Allscripts Agile since 2001 MIS, CSM, CSP, MBTI, Innovation Games Certificate in Virtual Worlds Taught Agile Scrum and Lean to over 1,000
worldwide Specialist in 2d and 3d web based training
and collaboration
Before Agile - 1995
Format
What did you do
What will you do
Open space team room / bullpen
Before Agile - 1995
Results
Not done often
Not understood as a pillar practice
Kept other meetings, so loathe to even add short ones
XP Standup - 2002
Learned Agile – introduced to team
Not comfortable with all practices yet, so we started with the daily meetings
“Hey, this is just like our daily war room meetings, we’ll do that!”
XP Standup - 2002
Results
We crawled through the list of every bug. For an hour. Each day. Some tried to sand.
The experts talked. The insecure talked more.
Bad smells Needed 3 question format. Timeboxing. No status.
Better XP Standup - 2004
3 Question Format
Yesterday Today Blockers
XP Standup - 2004
Results
Late meetings Long meetings Few Blockers Design on the Fly Status Mania
Bad Scrum Meeting – 2006
Approach
3 Question Format Took minutes for those who could not
attend Tried to force timebox
Bad Scrum Meeting – 2006
Results
No one read minutes People panic when told they have two
minutes “Take it offline” items were not followed
up Few blockers arose
Good Scrum 2008
Approach
Better understanding of Role of Scrum Master
Rotated into Scrum Master role, so people know what to look for
Used ‘Power of 2’ – focus talk on the top two things you did
Talk about stuff from the sprint backlog Culture change – blockers are good!
Good Scrum 2008
Results
On time Early problem detection Ties into big visible indicators like
taskboard and burndown Key gear on the Scrum process machine
Now teams are global
Global Scrum 2010
Global Teams are the norm
Sometimes used teleconferences
Used virtual worlds for sense of proximity and “co-interaction”
Teleplace – Data Centric
Many timezones, but feel together
Agile Hopscotch © 2010 Agile Dimensions LLC
Global Scrum 2010
Results
Spatial Audio, body language, shared venue, and co interactive objects made us feel together
Able to quickly teach Scrum concepts to laypersons
Discussion Questions
When do we update our burndown numbers?
What do we do for timezone spreads?
What do we do with specialists supporting multiple teams?
Recommendations
Know who speaks next Grid, circle, or prompt
“Take it offline” – and really do Power of “2” – for beginners Use for Pairing Dump the 1 hour status meeting Schedule 15 min buffer after Scrum
meeting for quick breakouts
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