"Guerrilla Scrum": Innovatively Implementing Scrum Management

Johnny Busby

Light Introduction to Scrum

What is Scrum?

• Rugby

– Restarts the game

– Tight formations

– Ball possession

• Project Management

– (Re)Starts the work

– Closely integrated team

– Obtaining a goal

• Agile (Software)

Development

Who is on the team?

Scrum Benefits

• Team autonomy

– Professionalism

– Communication

– Pigs over Chickens

• Short iterations reduce risk

– Time

– Cost

• Product over

documentation

• Easily adapts to change

• Lessons learned early

and often

Scrum Process Overview

Products•Releasable product•Updated product backlog•Product backlog burndown•Updated sprint backlog•Sprint backlog burndown

Daily Cycle

Sprint ReviewSprint Retrospective

Sprint Planning Meeting

Daily Work

Daily Scrum

Preparation•Vision•Business Case•Stakeholder Buy-in•Team Assembly•Initial Product Backlog

1-4 Weeks

Non-Scrum Environments : The “Enemy”

• Last-minute involvement– Technically Poor Work Product– Management Bigger Obstacles to Remove

• Slow, unresponsive, or disengaged– Processes– Projects– Management

• Executive – “Buzzword-mania”– Disinterested in new techniques– Assumes “Software Development only” – Training/understanding interval too long

Guerrilla Strategy

George C. Marshall 毛泽东(Mao Zedong / Tse-tung)

“The enemy advances, we retreat; the enemy camps, we harass; the enemy tires, we attack; the enemy retreats, we pursue.”

Going Guerrilla: The Guerrillas

Assemble a small, mobile, and loyal force

Going Guerrilla: The Targets

Target “personnel” and resources

Going Guerrilla: The Terrain

Terrain or environment advantage

Going Guerrilla: The Engagement

Avoid large confrontations

Avoiding Counter-insurgency

• Have strategic informants– Scrum supporters– Work product supporters

• Continue (re)education– Majority– Minority

• Be strategic

Lessons Learned

• Keep the chickens out of the team

• Always involve and inform the project sponsor

/ product owner

• Stay vigilant on sprinting

• Documentation as a backlog item

Success!

References / Resources• NASA SATERN :: Books 24x7

– Agile Project Management with Scrum (2004)• Ken Schwaber• Microsoft Press

– Scrum Project Management (2011)• Kim H. Pries & Jon M. Quigley• Auerbach Publications

• On Guerrilla Warefare– Mao Zedong / Tse-tung

• The Noun Project (thenounproject.com)

Thank You

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