FROM SPECIFICATION TO COLLABORATION one agency s move to scrum Stephanie El-Hajj
WHAT IS SCRUM?
WHO DOES SCRUM?
THIS ISNT A HOW-TO TALK (sorry)
What we do What we ve learned How it s worked for our team
Hi, I m Stephanie Amazee Labs Project Manager Austin, Texas
Zurich, Switzerland Austin, Texas Cape Town, South Africa
Kinda Scrum, and remote Mostly Waterfall Also kinda Scrum
PROBLEMS WITH KNOWLEDGE LIVING ONLY IN ONE BRAIN Tasks bottleneck Single point of failure Vacation disruption/guilt No tribal knowledge On-boarding time suck
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WHAT WE DID ABOUT IT
2 teams 1 team 1 team
UNLEARN WHAT YOU KNOW
WHAT CHANGED?
Restructure Meetings Team Involvement Scrum Master Story Points Team Testing
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 Daily Standup Daily Standup Sprint Planning Sprint Starts Daily Standup Daily Standup Daily Standup Daily Standup Daily Standup *Backlog Grooming Sprint Estimation Sprint Board Review Daily Standup Sprint Retrospective Client Demos
Everyone attends meetings* Bye-bye Telephone
Estimating in Annas
Backlog Grooming everybody makes tickets acceptance criteria definition of done split tickets make new tickets priority - priority - priority
We don t write User Stories What business value does this provide? What are you hoping to accomplish? What must be part of delivery?
JIRA
PINK BLUE GREEN RED YELLOW PURPLE ATX Unassigned Scrum & Coke Sprint 22 BLUE-143 Remove zero option facets PINK-33 PINK-34 PINK-36 Buy Hardware Review migration fields Implement new Person content type Touchscreen Migration YELLOW-02 GREEN-92 GREEN-104 YELLOW-03 Change asset field to have three options Make the slider blue Images aren t loading on the homepage slideshow Make Case Study teasers editable S&C Preferred for Sprint 23 GREEN-99 PINK-35 ATX-892 PINK-36 Implement Publications node Finalize IA Finalize Christmas Card Spin up Dev Site Touchscreen ZRH-45 Implement translation nodequeue on Sales pages Backlog ATX-802 ATX-923 ZRH-45 Work on FL logo and design Improve D8 Starter with PL Implement colorbox on department pages
PINK BLUE GREEN RED YELLOW PURPLE ATX Unassigned Scrum & Coke Sprint 22 BLUE-143 Remove zero option facets PINK-33 PINK-34 PINK-36 Buy Hardware Review migration fields Implement new Person content type Touchscreen Migration YELLOW-02 GREEN-92 GREEN-104 YELLOW-03 Change asset field to have three options Make the slider blue Images aren t loading on the homepage slideshow Make Case Study teasers editable S&C Preferred for Sprint 23 GREEN-99 PINK-35 ATX-892 PINK-36 Implement Publications node Finalize IA Finalize Christmas Card Spin up Dev Site Touchscreen ZRH-45 Implement translation nodequeue on Sales pages Backlog ATX-802 ATX-923 ZRH-45 Work on FL logo and design Improve D8 Starter with PL Implement colorbox on department pages
PINK BLUE GREEN RED YELLOW PURPLE ATX Unassigned Scrum & Coke Sprint 22 BLUE-143 Remove zero option facets PINK-33 PINK-34 PINK-36 Buy Hardware Review migration fields Implement new Person content type Touchscreen Migration YELLOW-02 GREEN-92 GREEN-104 YELLOW-03 Change asset field to have three options Make the slider blue Images aren t loading on the homepage slideshow Make Case Study teasers editable S&C Preferred for Sprint 23 GREEN-99 PINK-35 ATX-892 PINK-36 Implement Publications node Finalize IA Finalize Christmas Card Spin up Dev Site Touchscreen ZRH-45 Implement translation nodequeue on Sales pages Backlog ATX-802 ATX-923 ZRH-45 Work on FL logo and design Improve D8 Starter with PL Implement colorbox on department pages
HOW CRITICAL IS IT?
RETROSPECTIVE STITCH + BITCH
13
TESTING TESTING TESTING
PINK BLUE GREEN RED YELLOW PURPLE ATX Unassigned PINK-34 Review migration fields Migration GREEN-104 Images aren t loading on the homepage slideshow PINK-33 Buy Hardware Touchscreen YELLOW-02 Change asset field to have three options BLUE-143 Remove zero option facets PINK-36 Implement new Person content type YELLOW-12 Change the site to Wordpress YELLOW-03 Make Case Study teasers editable GREEN-92 Make the slider blue
HOW TEAM COMMUNICATION CHANGED
ALATX - T SWIZZLE / SWZ-32 Update 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
PUT IT IN WRITING Estimations are Estimations* Establish a baseline *Cost not Guaranteed Let s talk about Scrum
WHO PAYS FOR SCRUM? hint: everyone
Line item: Strategy & Planning
TAKEAWAYS
Efficiency (amazee.io) Clear Communication Clear Expectations Better testing Better product 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