Hello and welcome to KnowledgeHut. In this video, we will see all the necessary steps
needed to implement Scrum successfully in your team. So let us begin.
Step 1 Be ready with your product backlog. This is a very essential step in Scrum implementation.
To start this up, you have to identify your product owner who can actively work with the
Stakeholders and create a product backlog which contains requirements that can deliver
value and also are prioritized as per the market need. A Product Owner takes up the
ownership of the product backlog. During the development phase, the teams might
encounter some requirements which were not covered in the backlog but are needed, so
the team has all the rights to add items on the backlog but only the product owner can
prioritize them.
Step 2 Let's build our team. Defining a Scrum team is again a crucial step,
as this is the team who is required to work closely bound and deliver a quality product.
The team will comprise of 5-9 team members which include developers, testers, support,
designers, business analysts, etc. All the members in a team will work towards a common
goal as set in the commitment. Usually, we strive for creating a cross-functional
and self-organizing team, getting the former is quite easy and doable but don’t worry
if making them self-organized is taking time. Don’t panic, it really takes a lot of effort
and time to churn out a self-organized team!
Step 3 Who will be our Scrum Master? So far, we have the product backlog and the
team to work on it, but, where is the person who will make all this go smoothly without
interruptions, who will make sure the team is encouraged and being involved productively,
who will make sure the team realizes their potential
In short, let’s get a Scrum Master. The Scrum Master ensures that the Scrum team is
effective and progressive. The person will help the team in planning the work for the
coming sprints.
Step 4 Here comes TIME-BOXING When we talk about Scrum, we talk about Sprints.
A sprint is a time-box for the Scrum team to commit and deliver items in a short span
of time. It usually ranges between a week to a month, whatever the length has been locked
for the team, it stays the same throughout. The Sprint starts with a commitment from a
team on the backlog items, they develop, code, test, etc. and provide a demonstration at
the end of the Sprint. The Sprint closes with the retrospective ceremony where the team
reflects on what went well and how can they improve further.
Step 5 First drive with the Sprint The Sprint starts with the first gear – Sprint
Planning – here the team picks items from the list. They set their Sprint goal and start
working on the items, during the course of the Sprint, the team will regroup each day
for a quick meetup called Daily Scrum to talk about their progress and if there’s anything
blocking their path of delivery. Once in a while, they will stop by, to talk
about the next inline items for the upcoming sprint which is called the Backlog Grooming.
On the closure day, the team will demo the items they have worked on to the Stakeholders
or the Product Owner. The Sprint gets over with the last regrouping called the Retrospective
where they inspect how they did and work on the ideas to make it better by adapting to
it.
Step 6 Measuring Success It is really important to measure our success
and failures, it gives us a chance to improve. This applies to Scrum as well. Here, we talk
about our burndown charts. The Scrum Master can understand, just by looking at the burndown,
how the team did, the scope change, the blockers and how the team adapted to the new environment.
It should be one of the goals for a team to reach Zero by the end of the Sprint in the
chart.
So these we the six steps to implement Scrum effectively in your team. Don’t forget to
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