Kick Off
On the Scrum mailing list, Alan Shalloway came up with a great list for questions you need to answer before starting your Scrum teams. In his experience, this checklist becomes very useful after the organization reaches 75 people.
- How do I know I’m done planning?
- What documents do I have?
- What do I know?
- How do I know I’m ready for my first Sprint?
These are the business and architectural requirements for starting the first Sprint.
- Project/Product Vision Statement, OBT (Why are we here?)
- Release plan set
- Product backlog established and visible
- Initial Estimate w/Top-Line (story points) established and visible
- Sprint length set
- Prioritized and estimated Feature list
- Architectural goals/approach identified and visible
- Dependencies & Risks Identified and made visible
- Conceptual design completed
The Team and their Environment also needs to be prepared before embarking on Scrum.
- Team established with roles set
- Trained in Lean-Agile Software development (process and technical practices)
- Definition of “Done” established and documented (unit, functional, acceptance)
- Testing approach committed to (Unit, Functional, Acceptance) and visible
- Information radiator established and visible
- Tools for testing, coding, integrating, building selected and installed
