I always wanted (as brief as possible) to keep important material in writing and here is one in Agile methodology space, SCRUM Fundamentals. Based on SBOK Guide book, SCRUM fundamentals are broadly divided into following three main areas.
1. Principles: There are six principles which form foundation on which SCRUM is based.
2. Aspects: There are five Aspects that are important considerations.
3. Processes: There are nineteen Scrum Processes.
Description of each one in brief as follows.
SCRUM Principles
1. Empirical Process Control: This principle emphasizes the core philosophy of Scrum based on the three main ideas of Transparency, Inspection, and Adaption
2. Self-Organization: This principle focuses on today's workers, who deliver significantly greater value when self-organized and this results in better team buy-in and shared ownership; and innovative and creative environment which is more conducive for growth.
3. Collaboration: This principle focuses on the three core dimensions related to collaborative work; Awareness, Articulation, and Appropriation. It also advocates project mgmt. as a shared value-creation process with teams working and interacting together to deliver the greatest value.
4. Values-based Prioritization: This principle highlights the focus of Scrum to deliver maximum business value, from early in the project and continuing throughout.
5. Time-Boxing: This principle describes how time is considered a limiting constraint in Scrum, and used to help effectively manage project planning and execution. Time-boxed elements in Scrum include Sprints, Daily Standup Meetings, Sprint Planning Meetings and Sprint Review Meetings.
6.Iterative Development: This principle defines iterative development and emphasizes how to better manage changes and build products that satisfy customer needs. It also delineates the Product Owner's and organization's responsibilities related to iterative development.
Scrum Aspects
1. Organization
a) Core Roles:
Product Owner: Voice of customer and is responsible for achieving max. business value.
Scrum Master: Facilitator and is responsible for clearing any impediments for the team.
Scrum Team: Group or Team of people who is responsible for deliverables.
b) Non core Roles:
Stakeholder(s): includes customer, users and sponsors interacting with core team
Scrum Guidance Body: consists of set of documents and/or a group of expects involved
in defining objectives related to quality, Gov. regulation,
security and other key organizational parameters.
Vendor(s): External individual or organization provide product and/or services
Chief Product Owner: Facilitating the work of multiple product owners and maintaining
business justification for larger project
Chief Scrum Master: Coordinating multiple scrum teams working in parallel.
2. Business Justification: Prior starting any project, it is important to perform proper business assessment. Business Justification in SCRUM is based on the concept of Value-Driven Delivery.
3. Quality: In Scrum, Quality is defined as the ability of the completed product or deliverables to meet the acceptance criteria and achieve the business value expected by the customer.
4. Change: Scrum projects welcome change by using short, iterative Sprints that incorporate customer feedback on each Sprint’s deliverables.
5. Risk: Risks should be identified, assessed, and responded to based on two factors: the probability of each risk’s occurrence and the possible impact in the event of such occurrence
Scrum Processes
Phase Process
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Initiate 1. Create Project Vision
2. Identify Scrum Master and Stakeholder(s)
3. Form Scrum Team
4. Develop Epic(s)
5. Create Prioritized Product Backlog
6. Conduct Release Planning
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Plan and Estimate 7. Create User Stories
8. Approve, Estimate and Commit User Stories
9. Create Tasks
10. Estimate Tasks
11. Create Sprint Backlog
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Implement 12. Create Deliverables
13. Conduct daily standup
14. Groom prioritized Product Backlog
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Review and Retrospect 15. Convene Scrum of Scrums
16. Demonstrate and Validate Sprint
17. Retrospect Sprint
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Release 18. Ship Deliverables
19. Retrospect Project
Source http://www.scrumstudy.com/). You can download complete PDF document "SCRUM Body of Knowledge" (SBOK Guide) from this website.
