Incremental Delivery and Minimum Viable Product - Rebel Scrum

Incremental Delivery and Minimum Viable Product - Rebel Scrum https://rebelscrum.site In this video you will learn how to stop pretending to be agile, examining the agile scrum process and incremental delivery (delivering your product in increments) and why agile scrum does not discuss minimum viable product).

Agile has been growing through global adoption. The adoption of scrum and agile methods continues to grow since 2020, where 37 percent of software development organizations within companies had adopted agile. That number has grown to 86 percent in the year 2021.

Today’s video will cover what scrum is founded on. Scrum is a simple framework based on the idea of empiricism but it’s hard to master.

Empiricism is making decisions based on what’s known and limiting waste. Empiricism means making decisions based on what is known experimenting using data and using practical approaches.

Pretending to be agile means using the framework without truly understanding the underpinnings of it. Signs of pretending to be agile include a product that is not aligned to the customer, not delivering a done minimum viable product, usable increment on a frequent basis, low predictability, and events that do not result in adaptation and learning.

Defining the minimum viable product too narrowly can lead to unnecessary dependencies and working on low value features. Focusing too narrowly on a specific team or aspect of the product can cause handoffs and create confusion around progress. Defining the minimum viable product too narrowly can also lead to losing focus on the customer and limit teams' ability to self-organize.

Incremental delivery and minimum viable product
Delivering value frequently and incrementally is an important aspect of scrum, which means: delivering a working and usable product in small pieces, rather than one large piece, making sure that each increment is fully usable, like a tent or a bicycle instead of a house or a car. Or delivering complete sandwiches (or other product increments) to the customer as soon as they are ready, instead of waiting to deliver the entire sandwich at once.

It's important to note that having a team with the necessary skills and resources to deliver the product is important. This team should be able to help with forecasting. Forecasting is a key aspect of agile scrum, which is the ability to predict when and how much product will be delivered.

Forecasting helps with predictability and control of risk and allows teams to set and reach goals. It is not a guarantee, and teams need to make smart decisions as they go.

Different ways to forecast include: hours estimation, relative estimation, flow metrics and using tools such as burn up charts, road maps, and cumulative flow diagrams. Forecasting impacts empiricism and transparency by providing predictability to customers, allowing teams to inspect progress and adapt as needed.

Embracing empiricism is important in the scrum framework and involves using the events provided in the framework to inspect and adapt. Sprint retrospectives should result in actual improvements, and facilitation of the event is important to ensure that actionable improvements are identified.

Having a sprint retrospective that results in actual improvements is a sign of embracing empiricism. The scrum events should be used as designed and a mid-sprint review is not necessary if sprints are the correct length. The minimum viable product owner should engage with stakeholders continuously, but the formal review event should only be at the end of the sprint.

A daily agile scrum can be a challenge when working remotely or with a distributed team, and good facilitation, clear communication, and setting clear expectations can help ensure a successful daily agile scrum.

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Incremental Delivery and Minimum Viable Product - Rebel Scrum