Saturday, February 5, 2011

Prerequisites of Successful Scrum

1. Team members are highly or moderately skilled.
2. Team is tightly knit.
3. Information exchange among team members is fast, consistent and free flow.
4. Team is co-located.
5. Business is highly involved with team.
6. Architecture ( Business, Information as well Technical) is well defined.
7. Infrastructure is up and running – Dev, test and UAT environment.
8. Automated build and release.
9. High level of test automation.
10. Team’s dependency on external world is minimum (ideally zero).
11. Participating systems count is minimal.
12. Requirements are stable at higher levels so product backlog has minimum changes.
13. Team members are autonomous to take decision on what user story should be part of sprint/scrum as well as total numbers of scrums/sprint needed to achieve stated goal.

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