Scrum gathering hosted in Nexo Ajans (Rasheed Hamwi) at 22 July 2019
Initiative by Mustafa Kugu (ArabTech)
Speaker : Feras Taleb
Here are the topics we have covered in a nutshell.
Before Scrum
- Waterfall model
- Blockers & Challenges
- Proposed Solutions
Agile & Scrum
- Agile Manifesto
- Agile Principals
- Rugby! (This is where the name of Scrum came from)
- Scrum Framework
Cores Components : Roles, Events, Artifacts
- Roles
- Product Owner
- Scrum Master
- Development Team
- Events
- Sprint Planning
- Daily Meeting
- Sprint Review
- Sprint Retrospective
- Artifacts
- Product Backlogs
- Sprint Backlogs
- Increment
Quick Notes
- The daily meeting is not a status meeting and it’s arranged by Development Team
- The first sprint is like any regular sprint so there should be an increment delivered at the end of it.
- The sprint begins after the conclusion of the previous one
- Scrum events are time-box events:
- The daily meeting is 15 minutes maximum
- Sprint Planning is 8 hours for a month-long sprint
- The sprint review is 4 hours for monthly sprint
- The length of the Sprint is no more than one month
- “Done” definition is determined by the organization and Development Team
- The final decision of ordering product backlog items is the product owner
- Product backlogs refinement is done by the product owner and development team
- One of the main challenges of adopting scrum is related to the organization culture in terms of embracing the change.
- Scrum Master is a servant leader who makes sure there are no blockers that prevent the
team from doing their work
And many other notes that we discussed together.
References
Arab Tech Survey
Before the event, I sent a quick survey to Arab Tech members and some friends who are working on Software development. The participants were 33.
Here are the results:
