THE SCRUM PAPERS: NUT, BOLTS, AND ORIGINS OF AN AGILE FRAMEWORK JEFF SUTHERLAND CO-CREATOR OF SCRUM 30 MAR 2021, LINCOLN MA Copyright Jeff Sutherland 1993-2021 1 Dedication .......................................................................................................................................................................................... 5 Introduction ...................................................................................................................................................................................... 8 Forward: Ikujiro Nonaka and The Scrum Way ............................................................................................................. 11 Chapter 1: Introduction to Scrum .......................................................................................................................... 13 Scrum Primer Version 1.2 ....................................................................................................................................................... 14 Rolling out Agile at a large Enterprise .............................................................................................................................. 33 Capturing Extreme Business Value: 1000% Annual Return on Investment in Scrum Trainers ........... 43 Chapter 2: The First Scrum ..................................................................................................................................... 46 Agile Development: Lessons Learned from the First Scrum .................................................................................. 47 Chapter 3: What is Scrum? The First Papers on the Scrum Development Process ................................................. 54 Scrum Development Process ................................................................................................................................................. 55 Chapter 4: Getting Started with Scrum .................................................................................................................. 79 Scrum on Large Projects: Distributed, Outsourced Scrum ..................................................................................... 81 Agile Can Scale: Inventing and Reinventing Scrum in Five Companies ............................................................ 83 PatientKeeper Scrum: The First Enterprise Scrum .................................................................................................... 91 Conclusions .................................................................................................................................................................................... 92 Distributed Scrum: Agile Project Management with Outsourced Development Teams ........................... 93 Cahpter 5: Distributed, Outsourced Scrum ............................................................................................................ 96 Context ............................................................................................................................................................................................. 99 Fully Distributed Scrum: Replicating Local Productivity and Quality with Offshore Teams ...............111 Scrum and CMMI Level 5: The Magic Potion for Code Warriors ........................................................................124 Mature Agile with a twist of CMMI ...................................................................................................................................141 Chapter 6: Scrum Metrics .................................................................................................................................... 154 Reporting Scrum Project Progress to Executive Management through Metrics .................................................. 155 Introduction .................................................................................................................................................................................155 Copyright Jeff Sutherland 1993-2021 2 Transparency into Projects ..................................................................................................................................................155 Executive Dashboard ...............................................................................................................................................................156 Conclusions ..................................................................................................................................................................................163 Chapter 7: Scrum Tuning ...................................................................................................................................... 164 Type B Scrum Continuous Flow: Advancing the State of the Art ......................................................................... 166 Introduction .................................................................................................................................................................................166 Background on Scrum .............................................................................................................................................................166 Improving Scrum Implementations .................................................................................................................................168 Enhancing Scrum Implementations .................................................................................................................................169 Management Challenges for a Continuous Flow Scrum .........................................................................................171 Summary .......................................................................................................................................................................................172 Postscript ......................................................................................................................................................................................172 Future of Scrum: Creating a Scrum Company with a Type C All-At-Once Scrum .................................................. 174 Abstract ..........................................................................................................................................................................................174 1. Scrum Evolution ...................................................................................................................................................................174 2. Scrum Evolution in Practice ............................................................................................................................................176 2. The First Scrums – Team Scrum and Continuous Flow Scrum ......................................................................177 3. Continuous Flow Scrum ....................................................................................................................................................179 4. Type C Scrum..........................................................................................................................................................................184 5. Conclusions .............................................................................................................................................................................199 Chapter 8: Case Studies ....................................................................................................................................... 201 Ssh! We are adding a process… (at Google) ......................................................................................................... 202 1. Introduction ..................................................................................................................................................... 202 2. First agile attempts .......................................................................................................................................... 203 2.1. The guinea pig projects .................................................................................................................................................204 Copyright Jeff Sutherland 1993-2021 3 2.2. The first process steps ...................................................................................................................................................205 2.3. Issues to overcome ..........................................................................................................................................................206 2.4. Working with the remote team .................................................................................................................................207 3. Adding agility – one practice at a time .......................................................................................................................207 4. Release experience ..............................................................................................................................................................209 5. Feedback and next steps ...................................................................................................................................................210 6. The second version..............................................................................................................................................................211