Kane Mar #Scrum Workshop #StartupSpring @RiverCity Labs

1. What is Scrum?
• Kane Mar
• Scrum Trainer and Coach
• http://Scrumology.com
• kane@scrumology.com

2. • A simple framework of iterative, incremental product
delivery
• Created in early 90’s based on work done by Honda,
Cannon, and Fuji-Xero
• An empirical process: Inspect and Adapt
“We created Scrum”
- Jeff Sutherland & Ken Schwaber

3. The Ball Point Game

4. Rules
• Rules
• You are all one big team
• Each ball must have air-time
• You cannot pass a ball to someone directly to
your left or right
• If a ball falls on the floor, it’s waste
• The end point must also be the start point
• 5 Sprint!!

5. Debriefing
• “Inspect and Adapt” in Scrum ... is a Deming* cycle (PDCA)
• PLAN: Design or revise business process components
to improve results
• DO: Implement the plan and measure its performance
• CHECK: Assess the measurements and report the
results to decision makers
• ACT: Decide on changes needed to improve the
process
• Each system has it’s own velocity.

6. The Deming Cycle
Plan
DoCheck
Act

8. References
• “The New New Product Development Game” , HBR
January 1986, Takeuchi and Nonaka
• “The Scrum Guide”, Jeff Sutherland and Ken Schwaber
http://www.scrum.org/Scrum-Guides
• “Scrum Is Hard and Disruptive”, Ken Schwaber
http://www.controlchaos.com/storage/scrum-articles/
Scrum%20Is%20Hard%20and%20Disruptive.pdf