Hi, I’m Alexander.

• 15+ years of project management experience

• Professional Scrum Master (PSM) certification

• Team enablement and organizational transformation

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Agile Manifesto

• Individuals and Interactions over processes and tools

• Working software over comprehensive documentation

• Customer collaboration over contract negotiation

• Responding to change over following a plan

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Definition of Terms

• What is Agile? • How does Scrum relate to Agile? • What is Scrum?

– Scrum Roles – Scrum Artifacts – Scrum Events

• What is a Scrum Master? • What is an Agile Coach?

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Scrum Theory

• Iterative

• Incremental

• Inspection

• Adaption

• Transparency

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Roles

• Scrum Team –Development Team

– Scrum Master

–Product Owner

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Scrum Artifacts

• Product Backlog

• Sprint Backlog

• Sprint Progress

• Increment

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Events

• Sprint

• Sprint Planning

• Daily Scrum

• Sprint Review

• Sprint Retrospective

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Scrum Master

• Owns the Scrum Process

• Guards and supports team

• Facilitates team decision making

• Establishes platform for team maturity

• Removes impediments

• Servant leader

• Is not the project manager

• Does not estimate – Work

– Size

– $

• Does not commit to dates

• Is not the decision maker

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Agile Coach

• Assists in defining an action plan for the successful adoption of Agile practices

• Review of existing Agile practices

• Delivers mentoring on best practices

• Guides the cultural shift to adopt Agile practices

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What’s Organizational Transformation?

• A new way of thinking about time

• A new way of delivering value

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What does this mean to me?

• Promote efficiencies

• Product ideation and development

• Empowerment

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Agile Myths

• If we use Scrum for our projects, won’t we work faster?

No. Teams will deliver value sooner

• Agile won’t work for the types of projects we have.

Yes. Agile frameworks prescribe both adaptive and reactive planning

• Scrum is only used for software development

No. Agile frameworks can be applied from product ideation through development

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Thanks!

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