IWMW 2009 – Scrum

Filed under: Presentation, Scrum — Andrew @ 10:18 pm

I’m running a session at this year’s Institutional Web Management Workshop (IWMW). I have an outline of what Scrum: Sprints not Marathons might cover, but I am open to suggestions to make sure everyone can get as much out of it as possible.  I’d like the preparation for my session to demonstrate some of the principles of Scrum:

• Deliver value early
• Embrace & adapt to change
• Provide visibility of work
• Promoting conversation

If you are attending it would be helpful if you could give me an idea of your role and what you hope to get out of the workshop.

At this stage I plan to cover the topics below and to run activities that demonstrate the Scrum framework.

Topics

• Where does the term Agile come from?
• What problems does Scrum solve?
• Why Scrum can be valuable to Web Teams in HE
• Scrum forces you to be realistic
• Outline of the framework
• What problems does Scrum create?
• Team organisation for Scrum
• Agile development practices
• How to begin Scrum

Activities

• Estimating work
• Planning poker
• Retrospectives

I’m planning the group activities and will aim to post some details early next week.  I am wondering if I could run the Scrum Lego game, but I’m not sure where I can get enough Lego.