Quick Scrum Summary
What follows is a bulleted list for a rapid intro / reminder of Scrum. For Scrum a good metaphor to think of is Race Car, Driver and Mechanic. Can you guess which role in Scrum is Race Car, Drive and Mechanic?
3 Roles ScrumMaster (SM), Product Owner (PO) and Team
- Team 7±2 does the work
- PO provides the work requests
- SM provides care for the whole team (PO/Team)
- Team swarms on the work
- Team is cross functional
- Team owns its process
- PO provides validation for each work request
- Work is done in short bursts < 30 days each (Sprints)
- Work starts and stops with Planning and Review
- Review demo for product; Review retro for process
- Daily standup detects any adjustments needed
- PO determines priority as a flow of work requests
- SM observes and helps the whole team adjust
- SM tunes the whole team for maximum performance