Incorporating Scrum in a Traditional PM Environment - PMI Nashville PDD - May 2015

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Incorporating Scrum in a Traditional Project Management Environment

Kate [email protected]

Agile ExecutivesPMI MemphisKate Megaw, CST, PMP

• COO, The Braintrust Consulting Group

• BS Information Management from Queen’s University, Belfast

•15 years project management experience

• Agile coach, trainer, and consultant

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Think And Write• What do you hope to

get from this session?

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• Scrum tools

Goal for Today!

Tools for your toolkit!


Scrum Framework

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• Scrum process core


Daily Meeting


• Daily Scrum

Daily Update (15 m)Everyone shares with each other:1. What did I do yesterday?2. What am I going to do today?3. What are my roadblocks/ risks?


Retrospectives & Lessons Learned

Retrospectives help teams—even great

ones—keep improving.

Esther Derby and Diana Larsen


• Company milestones

Guideposts #1-5

1. Set the stage2. Gather data3. Look for patterns and

assign priority4. Create an action plan5. Follow-up and hold

people accountable

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• Take the teams temperature

Take The Teams…

Temperature

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• Pair share

Plus/Delta (+/∆)

• Plus (+)

• What worked well?

• Delta (∆)

• What do we need to improve?

• Practice – Commute to the meeting today

What worked well?

What didn’t work so

well?What might we want to

do differently next trip?

Write:1 item per post it

note – large, clear writing

Put them up on your flipchart

Grab a set of postit notes and

a sharpie

Put a flipchart page on the wall

and draw

Facilitator invites attendees to talk about what they’ve put on the wall

• Affinity mapping

Group Like Items

• Dot voting

Dot Voting

Action Plan

Hold Each Other Accountable

Try new formats…..be

creative!

Keep Doing Stop Doing

Start Doing

PDU RetrospectiveP – Positive

(what are all the positive things

about this event?)

D – Different

(what could be done differently?)

U – Useful

(what useful tips, tricks & tools are

you taking back to work next

week?)

Learning Matrix Retrospective

Agile Retrospectives: Making Good Teams Great. Esther Derby, Diana Larsen

Keep Doing

Stop Doing

Start Doing

P – Positive

D – Different

U – Useful


• Pair share


• Burning questions


Retrospective Ideas:• http://retrospectivewiki.org/• http://www.plans-for-retrospectives.com/

Remote Team Retrospective Tools:• http://www.listhings.com/• http://www.innovationgames.com/


Questions & Answers

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