{"id":288,"date":"2007-12-19T12:52:59","date_gmt":"2007-12-19T16:52:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/judykat.com\/ken\/2007\/12\/19\/if-it-aint-this-it-aint-scrum\/"},"modified":"2010-09-06T04:21:26","modified_gmt":"2010-09-06T08:21:26","slug":"if-it-aint-this-it-aint-scrum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/judykat.com\/ken-judy\/if-it-aint-this-it-aint-scrum\/","title":{"rendered":"If it ain’t this, it ain’t Scrum"},"content":{"rendered":"

Jeff Sutherland<\/a> has an interview on InfoQ<\/a> where he describes the Nokia Test<\/a> for evaluating whether a team is practicing Scrum:<\/p>\n

Iterative Development<\/strong>
\nA precursor to Scrum is practicing iterative development of any kind.<\/p>\n

    \n
  1. Fixed iterations of not longer than six [weeks]1<\/sup><\/li>\n
  2. Working software at the end of each iteration<\/li>\n
  3. Start iterations without requiring a “complete” specification<\/li>\n
  4. Testing during rather than at the end of iterations<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Jeff states, “this rules out about half of (self-identified) Scrum teams.”<\/p>\n

    Scrum<\/strong>
    \nThe minimum to foster self-directed development teams working to clear business priorities using the tracking mechanisms of Scrum.<\/p>\n

      \n
    1. Got a product owner? A single, empowered person who works directly with the team to determine what to build. <\/li>\n
    2. Does the product owner have a product feature backlog? Is that backlog prioritized by business value? Is it estimated by the team?<\/li>\n
    3. Track work with a burndown? From that, can you derive a velocity?<\/li>\n
    4. Hands off during an iteration? “Nokia has a rule that you can’t have a project manager interfering with the team in the middle of an iteration because that stops the self organization.”<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

      Jeff’s been saying for years that if you don’t have a backlog, you don’t have Scrum.<\/p>\n

      The first thing we lost in the acquisition process was our product owner. From there the rest deteriorates. Without a strong, empowered product owner the backlog becomes arbitrary and so does planning work against that backlog. See what that does to talented developers used to fueling themselves on intrinsic motivation.<\/p>\n

      It will be at least as hard to re-build these practices as it was to build them in the first place. The work of the new year and perhaps many years to come…<\/p>\n

      1<\/sup> corrected from six months<\/del> to six weeks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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