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IT:AD:Scrum
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IT:AD:Scrum

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See also:
- Agile

Summary

Scrums are a type of Agile development.

A Scrum “Sprint” corresponds to an Agile “iteration”.

Notes

Team Size:
- Less than a dozen.
Processes:
- Short Daily Standups, to report progress, and specify needs
- Sprints:
  - Includes starting with planning the Sprint
  - Full development cycle:
    - Important: Software should be compilable and usable after after deployment.
  - Short sprints, give flexibility and ability to respond quickly to new customer demands (max 4 weeks).
- Meetings:
  - Daily Scrum / Standup
  - Backlog grooming: storyline
  - Scrum of Scrums
  - Sprint Planning meeting
  - Sprint review meeting
    - Sprint retrospective
    * Roles:
- Product Owner: represents the stakeholders, who knows what they want
  - Writes user stories that describe a task.
- Scrum Master:
  - the team coach, removing obstacles, facilitating meetings, etc. for them to perform at peak.
    - Does not have authority to order the team, only propose, in order that they hit their goals.
      - See: http://www.mountaingoatsoftware.com/agile/scrum/scrummaster
  - the process owner, balancing the product owner
  - commonly a former project manager or a technical team leader.
  - organizes the backlog getting it ready for the next sprint:
    - Stories are prioritized and added to the BackLog
    - Stories are chosen from the backlog for a Sprint
- Scrum Team: the devs

Resources