Agile Awareness
Agile Essentials Training For Product
Owners
Scrum Framework
Framework: Scrum Principles
Scrum Framework: Scrum Values
Scrum Overview
▶ For each Sprint (sometimes called Iteration or time-box) there are three main steps:
1. Select requirements, plan the Sprint
– At the start of a Sprint, items are selected from the Product Backlog based on the Product
Owner’s priorities and how much the team thinks they can complete in the time-box. The
selected items are put into the Sprint Backlog and the team plans their tasks for their
delivery.
2. Develop the solution
– The Scrum Team focus on completing the items within the Sprint. The Sprint Backlog is
fixed for this sprint.
3. Review and release
– The Scrum Team demonstrates the working code to the Product Owner and required
Stakeholders for acceptance against Definition of Done.
– Following the demonstration the team holds a Retrospective and discusses how to improve
their Way of Working.
▶ A Release may follow an Iteration or a defined set of Iterations.
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Scrum Framework
Requirements are identified for
the product and entered into the
Product Backlog and ordered by
priority
Design, Develop,
Test
Highest priority Items
are moved to ‘next’
Sprint Backlog
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The Scrum Team
1. Product Owner
– There is usually only 1 Product Owner in a project and they are responsible for the
Product Vision. The Product Owner is the Decider.
– Participate in the production, maintenance and prioritisation of Backlog Items
throughout the project.
– They must have the authority to create and amend Backlog Items and ‘accept’ items
as ‘done’.
– See this YouTube video Agile Product Ownership in a Nutshell for a good understanding
of how a Product Owner manages the Stakeholders expectations and the Product
Backlog (15 mins)