This is a famous statement of Jeff Sutherland, one of the co-creators of Scrum. What does it really mean? Can we really reach an increase of performance by 400% when using agile methodologies like Scrum? This presentation will show some ideas on how this can really be reached.

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April 16, 2017
Daniel Gauch | Head of Development
TWICE THE WORK IN HALF THE TIME - REALLY?
DEV DAY DA NANG 2017

2. SCRUM solves all problems… right?

4. SCRUM solves all problems… right?

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„A properly implemented Scrum
framework enforces a few simple
constraints that cause a team to self-
organize into a state that achieves 5 to 10
times waterfall performance.“
Shock Therapy from Jeff Sutherland, Scott Downey and Björn Granvik

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„… a combination of nine Patterns in
conjunction with the Scrum framework
could help teams achieve Hyper-
Productivity, more than a 400% increase in
velocity over a team’s initial velocity“
Teams that Finish Early Accelerate Faster from Jeff Sutherland, Neil Harrison and Joel Riddle

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„… They were 50 times faster than
waterfall Team industry average“
Scrum Metrics for Hyperproductive Teams from Scott Downey and Jeff Sutherland

12. Value

13. How? Who?

14. Problem 1
Wrong things or too much implemented.

15. Problem 1
Wrong things or too much implemented.

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Problem 2
Misunderstandings in the SCRUM team.

17. Given item A has a price of $15
and the cart already contains item B
priced $20
When item A is added to the cart
Then the total cart price should be $35
ATDD

18. Problem 3:
Scrumbut

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Scrumbut
{ScrumBut} {Reason} {Workaround}
see https://www.scrum.org/resources/what-scrumbut

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Stick to the rules!

21. Problem 4
Bad software design

23. Problem 5
Lack of passion and
happiness.

25. Conclusion
Focus on delivering
business value in a high
quality. Test it! Stick to agile
methods and practices - and have fun!