Transition to Scrum

Transition to Scrum

Part I

Gone are the days when Scrum was seen as sub standard methodology, which can spoil the software and destroy the team disciple and everything will become chaotic. Now, scrum is getting accepted in the software industry as modern methodology and hottest trend. The reason is all known to everyone. Still the real challenge is transformation of existing waterfall model team into agile spirit.

As people can easily translate all the terms of scrum into their model but at the end it may not give effective results. You really need to change the spirit not just name. The complete transformation can be divided into four points.

1^st Point- It starts from change in thinking process. Team should be convinced that every ingredient of ‘slice of product’ will be done in scrum team only and not from some other staging team.

2^nd Point – Change of classical staging team into scrum team.

Usually there is staging team structure in waterfall model. Output of one team goes as input to other. At every level people will say that I am done with my responsibility and there no complete ownership. Feedback process is very lengthy and very costly

While in Scrum there will one team which doing all stuffs jointly. The whole team is responsible for delivering piece by piece.

In case of bigger team size

Scrum of Scrums together with product owner

In any case there is no separate team which provides intermediate output and then declares as done with his job. The whole team needs to involve in order build product piece by piece. For bigger team size more 10. The foundation of building block should pluggable in way that each team is working on a block without interfering others’ building. This will enhance quality as well as efficiency of team members.  

3^rd point - Every slice must be prioritized in two dimension first technical precedence and then feature priority.

4^th point – every slice should add value to the product. And it should be testable and demons-ratable.

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Part II - comming soon

Imparting optimum quality in Scrum