Notes: CSM training

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Scrum

Key words: business values, feature (client valued / verifiable) drivien development

Key Concepts

Three Roles: ScrumMaster, Product Owner and Team
Five Values: Openness, Focus, Commitment, Courage and Respect
Three Artifacts: Product Backlog, Sprint Backlog and Burndown Charts
Five Ceremonies: Sprint, Sprint Planning, Daily Standup Meeting, Sprint Review and Sprint Retrospective

Empirical practice: inspection, adaption and transparency

Visibility --> Pressure

Chickens <--> Pigs ==== Eggs <--> Hams (commitment)

Progress: Anarchy -> Complex -> Complicated -> Simple

Agile manifesto^[1]:

Individuals and interactions over processes and tools
Working software over comprehensive documentation
Customer collaboration over contract negotiation
Responding to change over following a plan

12 Principles:
customer, change, deliver frequently, together, trust,
face-to-face communication, working software, constant pace,
technical & design, simplicity, self-organizing teams, reflection & adjustment

Agile: prepare enough -> done -> retrospective

Potentially Shippable (with tests ensuring quality) Product Increment

Artifacts

Product Backlog (stories): As a <user role>, I want to <result>[, so that <reason>] -- Owner: PO
- small bucket -> fast-fail is ok (GPhone v.s. MS zune)
- measure of stories: INVEST -- Independent, Negotiable, Valued, Estimable, Small and Testable
Sprint Backlog (tasks): potentially done within one day -- Owner: Team
Sprint Burndown Chart is required

Roles

Scrum Master: management, enact practice, remove impediment, ensure functionality & productivity, enable close cooperation and shield the team
- servant leader -- influence
Team: 5 to 9 ppl, cross-functional, full-time and self-organizing

[Product Owner]
Right thing	Quick / Unsustainable Wins	Enduring success
Wrong thing	Slow failure	Fast failure
	Wrong way	Right way	[ScrumMaster]

Ceremonies

Planning: <= 2h / 1-week sprint
- Two steps: selection (PO is required) and planning (PO is optional)
Daily standup meeting: communication, raise issues (not solution) -- focus on done [Pigs' talk]
Review: informal (no slides), chickens' input -> PO [PO is the owner]
Retrospective: start/stop/keep doing [Team's talk]