Scrum Overview + FREE Cheat Sheet

[@Developmentthatpays]

Happy New Year, one and all! I'm back with a bang with a mega-episode on Scrum. Enjoy!

[@MikeOtranto]

I absolutely love your content. I utilize the strategies that you teach in my business every day. Especially when I do the daily standup with myself. I'm a full-time real estate investor in the Raleigh area of North Carolina (U.S.) My business fixed and flipped $4,000,000 in houses last year. When I am asked to speak at events I mentioned the agile methodology and your channel. My favorite part about the agile methodology is that it is non-linear and anticipates failure and unwanted outcomes. It's been my experience that this is part of the process. While home renovations, or construction processes, are projects that are very waterfall, I have found the agile methodology to be helpful in running the business as a whole

[@rahul2111]

Thank you Gary for taking the time to produce these videos and helping us all learn to better manage our projects, ship incremental value to customers, avoid a whole of confusion that's inherent in the waterfall model and avoid the development team from getting burned. Feedback for what to cover in future videos: 1. Pillars, Values 2. Delving deeper into each of the sprint ceremonies - best practices, common misconceptions/pitfalls 3. Scrum for very large teams - Scrum of Scrums 4. Tools to help manage SCRUM processes 5. Resources - blogs, books etc 6. Certifications

[@Developmentthatpays]

Glad to be able to help!

[@HebaShehadeh]

I can't thank you enough, Gary! This series has saved me :) I have been struggling to try to understand the concept of Scrum! Your simplified explanation is encouraging and entertaining.

[@terjes64]

I've been in scrum teams for years but never read the theory. Its nice to see it summed up clearly :)

[@ProfessorHeatherAustin]

I love SCRUM. It's such an effective way to plan. Thanks for this rundown.

[@Developmentthatpays]

Thanks Heather!

[@suganthym1438]

Engaging, entertaining and ofcourse informative. Thanks!

[@Developmentthatpays]

Thank you!

[@marceloponce1030]

Hi Gary, this is Marcelo from Argentina. Very good video, and very well explained. Regards

[@cabesandpops7816]

Fantastic work. I have enjoyed all your videos and cheat sheets. I would ask that you put together a video series that explores the different flavors of Agile....and compares them against each other....pros and cons when they are compared against each other. From what I gathered from your video, there are many "flavors" within the Agile framework umbrella...similar to how there are many flavors of ice cream, but they are all ice cream nonetheless.

[@Developmentthatpays]

Good idea. I've done a few on Scrum vs Kanban, and I have a plan to do XP next.

[@rishiverma940]

I m new on this channel but i must say content and explanation is too good . I also like the sound effects here and there .

[@noname-uk3ky]

Hi Gary, thanks for the video. can i request you to make a hands-on video on how to provide estimates to upper management? I work as a PM and mgnt is always concerned about dates, scope, budget. Whenever we have a new important feature in the backlog, they ask me to provide dates of the delivery.

[@salmanbaig3582]

Thank you very clear, accurate, to the point and well presented

[@Developmentthatpays]

Thank you!

[@johnd.spencer9367]

Excellent overview - thank you.

[@gthomasindependent]

One of the most frustrating aspects of Project Management regardless of waterfall of agile methodologies is testing. Specifically QA. Great developers are good at testing as they develop, but that tends to be unit testing. System testing is often skipped because it just takes too long. Throw that over the fence to QA where now we're 2 weeks out before user acceptance testing. I would love to hear your take on best practices on Agile testings and how, if possible to reduce QA and UAT timeframes. BTW: Another outstanding video.

[@Developmentthatpays]

You raise an extremely important point... and one that hasn't really featured on the channel (although it's been "on the list" for some time). I can tell you that I've yet to be in a team where Test/QA is well-integrated into an agile approach.

[@elanjelian]

I found the above video useful. Have already read the book by Jeff Sutherland, and yet, I found the above enlightening. Would love follow up videos on estimating work load, velocity and the roles of product owners, scrum masters and developers. A deep dive into sprint events like sprint planning, review, retro, too, would be very useful.

[@Developmentthatpays]

Think we'll be covering just about all of those. Many thanks for the list!

[@jonyencho1528]

Great job, excellent delivery, produced well and effective.

[@oliverschrempf9411]

Nice Video and interesting approach to the evolution of the series! What about the "Soft Skill" aspects of SCRUM? Self Organisation, commitment, responsibilities? What makes a SCRUM Team tick?

[@Developmentthatpays]

Great suggestion: my plan is to start with the pragmatic stuff, and work towards the soft skills.

[@cspalmisano]

Another fantastic video, well done Gary!

[@Developmentthatpays]

Thank you!

[@radwael-nawawy5083]

Looking forward to the series... Thank you for your efforts

[@Developmentthatpays]

You are very welcome!

[@rogs6802]

U took my feedback on method vs methodology 👍👍👍

[@rogs6802]

I mean method vs framework obviously 😂😂😂

[@Developmentthatpays]

I'm a slow learner... but I get there in the end!

[@ArsalShaikh7]

You explained amazingly... Waiting for Pillars and Values

[@klausottoschwarzmeier1075]

Hi Gary, my suggestion for a(some) new episode(s) is to address the 3 Pillars and the 5 values of Scrum. Their importance and what the experience tell/show about them. Why they are important. Regards.

[@Developmentthatpays]

Great suggestions: will definitely do an episode on two on these.

[@billdowpmo_pmcoach]

Great video Gary, love it. Thanks for sharing.. We are in the same worlds, I love finding someone in our own niche. Bill

[@boriseduardosanabriaperez8291]

Thanks Master

[@MrPDLopez]

Thanks a lot! Very good highlight on what SCRUM is. My question to you, after your comments in the email alerting me of this video, is: Can you tell us why SCRUM is not your favorite/preferred Agile Framework?

[@Developmentthatpays]

It's now 9 years since I joined my first Scrum team, which means it's around 8 years and 9 months since I realised that estimating were so unreliable that Planning Poker was ALMOST a waste of time. Why do I say almost? Although the estimates (the numbers) were useless, the _discussions_ that led to the estimates were valuable. For that reason, I tolerated Planning Poker sessions for the best part of 7 years. I now take a different view: that triggering a discussion from (multiple) Story Point estimates is... not ideal. I'd go as far as to say that it's harmful. Estimates are harmful. Estimates are (as far as I know) required for Scrum. That's why it's not my favourite framework.

[@MrPDLopez]

@@Developmentthatpays nevertheless i really liked your videos explaining estimation and how to do it. I have also experienced the dissapointment of not having seemingly reliable estimates but i attribute this more to people not really being committed to their commitments. Thanks a lot!

[@NamanJain-sb2vn]

perfect and funny! You are amazing.

[@Developmentthatpays]

Thank you!

[@wilsongovindji7293]

What about diving into how to create and maintain a healthy backlog ?

[@PeterTaylorpeterlearningabout]

Wilson Govindji I guess Gary could select a scenario of planning such as finding a avenue and purchasing food for an outdoor trip over a week as an example. 👍

[@Developmentthatpays]

Wilson - Good one. I don't think I used the words "backlog refinement" in the video, so there's plenty of scope.

[@zeliazelich]

Great job and Amazing energy, keep up :D

[@tangalooma7257]

Great video. How about setting Scrum in context, ie in a business environment, not just theory.

[@Developmentthatpays]

Outstanding idea. I'll add that to the list!

[@tangalooma7257]

Though I obviously appreciate doing the videos is a business. In my experience Scrum is simple in theory, it’s massively rewarding in practice but it requires focus and commitment. The team dynamics make it the challenge.

[@walidkhlil2872]

thanks

[@brentonkelly3780]

Brilliant Gary

[@Developmentthatpays]

Thank you!

[@walidkhlil2872]

great ,thanks

[@Developmentthatpays]

You are welcome!

[@h0ph1p13]

Thank you for your videos! They are helpful and entertaining. I already subscribed and watched+upvoted a few. However I feel that it's better to say you will deliver "a new episode every first Wednesday of the month" instead of "almost every Wednesday". Better promise less and deliver more than make a promise that is actually not really a promise. A different take at it would be to not say when you will deliver it at all. Just ask people to subscribe to not miss the next episode. That will do. The ones that are subscribed will surely get a notification. So if I don't know when the next video will be online it's one more incentive for me to get and stay subscribed. I am following another channel with 1 mil subscribers and the guy releases a video every weekend. Some (rare) weekends he doesn't. Some he does release more than one (also rare occasions). It has worked well for him to just ask for subscriptions and not tell us his schedule explicitly (although it has become apparent over the years what the schedule is). another topic that came to mind: We do scrum at out company of about 10 people. I can't say that it's very effective since we're not following it too strictly. We took just like half the scrum thing and left the rest unused. Anyway... your videos are so well explained that it made me think about how I could employ Kanban and Scrum as an individual for personal projects that include me or just a few other people. It's a concept I have not actually seen - how to kanban your own projects/tasks.

[@RogerWeb10]

Good video. It worked better at 1.25x speed

[@markusoberndorfer4634]

This video is awsome! BTW, I wonder, wouldn't it be possible to manage the Brexit with Scrum? Maybe you should propose this to Theresa May as "Plan S" ;)

[@Developmentthatpays]

There are some things that seem to resist all attempts at an agile approach...

[@gladysgallardo4586]

Porfavor subtitulos en español 😢

[@Saucy_boi_]

a FREE cheat sheet for 37 dollars, doesn't add up does it?

[@Developmentthatpays]

Check your mailbox: you should find the Cheat Sheet you requested. (The $37 is for a separate course.)

[@udhaybalamurali1563]

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