Adopting Scrum !!

While working as Scrum Master, I observed few positive changes within my organisations after implementation of lightweight Scrum process are:

? “4-6 months milestones” become “2/4-week sprints” leading to shorter time to delivery.

? “horizontal teams” turns to “vertical teams” restructuring because of agile modification.

? “personal rooms” become “team rooms” aka fancy agile delivery centres.

? “yearly customer engagements” to “continual customer engagements with feedback incorporation after retrospection” as after each sprint which use to move the developed feature to done state after taking feedback from relevant stakeholders and incorporating any changes required through backlog grooming and prioritization.

? “bug debt to zero debt” as we follow continuous improvement approach we found that our defect leakage metrics improved.

? “deep organisation hierarchy to flattened organisation hierarchy” as in scrum we need to build self-organizing teams even Scrum Master doesn’t have authority to tell the what to do but he need to have detailed eye to check on agile principles are followed.

? “features shipped once a year to features shipped after every sprint” after each sprint we deliver some features in the form of minimum viable product which passes through automated testing framework of BDD and TDD after implementing Continuous Improvement and Continuous Delivery pipelines.

? “success measured in numbers earlier to user satisfaction determining success now” as in agile we use to calculate scrum metrics such as burn down charts, velocity tracker, cumulative flow diagram and look for anti patterns if there any.

We use to deliver our project status and calculate scrum maturity of the team and outcome of this change in working methodology can be easily found which is based on data easily showcasing the benefit of scrum through self-organizing and cross functional teams.

I hope Scrum helps your organisation in growing and embracing agile.