Agile project management with scrum

Agile Project Management with Scrum
An introduction to Agile and Scrum project management framework

About Me
• Rasan Samarasinghe
• Associate Project Manager - Allion Technologies
• 10 years in Software Engineering, Lecturing, Project Management and
Coordination

Agile Project Management
• A set of practices to improve the
effectiveness
• Adaptive planning, evolutionary
development, early delivery,
continual improvement, flexible
response to changes are key
qualities
• Scrum, Kan-ban, Extreme
Programming are popular Agile
frameworks

Drawbacks of Waterfall Process
• No working software is produced until end of the life cycle
• High risk and uncertainty
• Poor model for long and ongoing projects
• Not suitable for the projects where requirements are not stable
• Difficult to measure progress within stages
• Cannot accommodate changing requirements
• Adjusting scope during the life cycle is difficult
• Integration is done as a “big-bang” at the very end

Challenges in Traditional Project Management

Why People Shift to Agile
• Managing Uncertainty
• Improved Quality
• Focus on Business Value
• Stakeholder Engagement
• Transparency
• Early and Predictable Delivery
• Allows for Change
• Predictable Costs and Schedule

Scrum
An iterative and incremental Agile Software Development framework for
managing software projects.

Product Backlog in Scrum
The Product Backlog
contains the wish list of all
the User Stories that would
make the product great.

User Story
• In Scrum, features are known as User Stories
• Written from the perspective of the end-user.
• The Product Owner, representing the users and customers of the
product, decides which User Stories make it into the Product
Backlog.

Release Backlog
The goal of Release Backlog is to
deliver a subset of the Product
Backlog
After identifying which User
Stories will go into a
particular Release, they
become part of a Release
Backlog.

Estimations
Then User Stories are prioritized by the Development
Team, who also estimate the amount of time involved to
complete each item.

Estimation Technique: Time
A simple technique is to create estimating
buckets where User Stories fall into a
complexity bucket.

Estimation Technique: Story Points
Estimate work in comparison to the
complexity of a well known but simple
component.

Sprint Backlog
• Each Sprint takes a manageable
chunk of the Release Backlog and
gets it to a Ship-Ready state!
• Usually, a sprint is 2-4 weeks long

Sprint Backlog
At the end of each Sprint,
you should have a fully
tested product with all the
features of the Sprint 100%
complete.

Burndown Charts
The slope of the graph or Burndown Velocity is the
average rate of productivity for each day.
The Burndown Chart provides a
day-by-day measure of the
amount of work that remains in
a given Sprint or Release.

Burndown Charts
Knowing whether the project is on
time or not early in the schedule,
can help teams make the proper
adjustments necessary to get the
project on track.

Daily Standup Meeting
Short daily standup meetings (The
Daily Scrum) ensure everything is
on track and everyone has the
tools they need.

Daily Standup Meeting
Team members list the work they
have completed since the last
meeting, any obstacles in their
way, and what they are going to
do next.

Sprint Retrospective
After each Sprint, a longer
Retrospective meeting helps fine-
tune the process.

Sprint Retrospective
This is a time for each team
member to reflect on what went
right and areas of improvement

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