1. Scrum Master & Agile Project Manager: A Tale of Two Different Roles
Tommy Norman, Agile Practice Lead

2. Scrum Masters & Project Managers
Agenda
Scrum Masters & Project Managers
The Agile Project Manager
Agile Adoption Implications
Making It Work

3. Tommy Norman Agile Practice Lead Scrum Certified Microsoft MVP
Scrum Videos
AgileNashville.com
TommyNorman.com
@tommynorman

4. Nerds of Rock, May 7th

5. Scrum Master / Agile Organization
Survey
Scrum Master / Agile Organization
Project Mgr. / Waterfall Org.
Agile PM / Mixed Org.
I don’t know what the hell I am!

6. Scrum Masters & Project Managers

7. Scrum Master
Responsibilities?
Qualities?

8. Scrum Guide
“The Scrum Master is responsible for ensuring Scrum is understood and enacted. Scrum Masters do this by ensuring that the Scrum Team adheres to Scrum theory, practices, and rules.”

9. “The Scrum Master is a servant-leader for the Scrum Team.”
Scrum Guide
“The Scrum Master is a servant-leader for the Scrum Team.”

10. Scrum Guide
“The Scrum Master helps those outside the Scrum Team understand which of their interactions with the Scrum Team are helpful and which aren’t. The Scrum Master helps everyone change these interactions to maximize the value created by the Scrum Team.”

11. Organization
Product Owner
Development Team

12. Team Self-Organization
Development Team
Team Self-Organization
Remove Impediments
Facilitate Events
Scrum Coach

13. Product Owner
Backlog Management
Empirical Planning
Maximize Value
Scrum Coach

14. Increase Effectiveness
Organization
Scrum Rollout
Scrum Coach
Foster Change
Increase Effectiveness

15. Collaborative Teams Maximize Product Value Maximize Agile Adoption
Delivery

16. Project Manager
Responsibilities?
Qualities?

17. PMBOK
“The person assigned by the performing organization to lead the team that is responsible for achieving the project objectives.”

18. Common PM Resources “Developing the project plan”
Holy
Crap!!
“Developing the
project plan”
“Managing the project stakeholders”
“Managing Communication”
“Managing the
project team”
“Managing the
project risk”
“Managing the
project schedule”
“Managing the
project conflicts”
“Managing the
project budget”
“Managing the
project delivery”

19. Other
Departments
Organization
Vendors
Business Owner
Functional
Manager
Development Team

20. Cooperative Teams Maximize Product Value Maximize Maximize Process
Audit
Budget
Maximize
Product
Value
Business
Case
Allocate
Resources
Maximize
Process
Adoption
Maximize
Product
Delivery
Maintain
Servers
Deliver
Services
Deliver
Features

21. The Agile PM

22. Agile Project Manager
Responsibilities?
Qualities?

23. How is the Agile PM Different?
Waterfall

24. Waterfall vs. Agile

25. Waterfall vs. Agile
Command & Control
Self-Organizing

26. Waterfall vs. Agile Jan Dec Analyze Design Develop Test Deploy Design

27. Dictatorships gets stuff done
Waterfall vs. Agile
Dictatorships gets stuff done
Democracy is messy

28. Why Do We Sometimes Have Both?
Agile
Waterfall

29. New Agile Team We’re supposed to self organize, I think. What do
we do?
This Agile stuff is kinda stupid.
What does that mean?

30. Agile & Non-Agile Teams / One Product

31. Agile Inside Waterfall
Analyze
Design
Construction
Deploy
Design
Develop
Test
Deploy
Analyze
Design
Develop
Test
Deploy
Analyze
Design
Develop
Test
Deploy
Analyze

32. Scrum-but Our scope and timeline are fixed.
We don’t have cross functional teams.
We constantly rearrange teams.
We don’t self-organize.
We create detailed functional specs.
Our sprints are 4 months long.
We have analysis, design, & QA sprints
We push tons of new stuff into sprints.

33. Agile Adoption Implications

34. Little ‘a’ vs. Big ‘A’ Agile
Focus on mechanics
Local optimization
Engineering focused
Agile
Focus on values
Organizational optimization
Company wide

35. Agile Values & Principles

36. Agile Values Individuals and Interactions Working Software
Customer Collaboration
Responding to Change
Processes and Tools
Comprehensive Documentation
Contract Negotiation
Following a Plan

37. Agile Values Individuals and Interactions Working Software
Customer Collaboration
Responding to Change
Processes and Tools
Comprehensive Documentation
Contract Negotiation
Following a Plan

38. Transition vs. Dysfunction
We’ll do ABC in the meantime.
We can’t do Agile thing XYZ.
We’ll do ABC like we always have done.
We can’t do Agile thing XYZ.
Here is our plan to get to XYZ.

39. Mechanics Without the Values
Functional
Specification
Search Catalog
As a registered user I want the ability to search the online catalog so that I can find items to purchase.
Business Value: Story Points: 8

40. Story Points & Velocity

41. What are some others?
Waterfall Values
Agile Practices

42. Setup for Failure
Help!!!!
Poor
Agile Practices
Poor
Waterfall
Values

43. Making It Work

44. A man’s got to know his limitations.
Know Which One Your Are
A man’s got to know his limitations.

45. Study the Agile Values & Principles
Mechanism

46. Identify Your Values & Principles
On time and on budget
Solving Technology Problems
Quality Deliverables
Customer value

47. Agile Adoption Backlog
Working Software
Working Software is our primary measure of Progress.
Potentially shippable code at the end of each Sprint. 1
Mastering
Continuous Integration build every check in. 2
Exemplifying
Continuous attention to technical excellence
and good design enhances agility.
Test Drive Development 3
Not Implemented
Pair Programming 4
Struggling
Individuals &
Interactions
The best architectures, requirements, and designs
emerge from self-organizing teams.
Daily Standup Meetings 5
Striving
Team dedicates 10% of Sprint to grooming. 6
Failing

48. Plan for Continuous Improvement
Assess Progress Frequently
Form Communities of Practice
Prioritize Areas of Concern
Make Incremental Improvements

49. Agile Maturity Models
Systems Thinking
Lean
Agile
Scrum
Kanban XP
TDD…

50. Little ‘a’ vs. Big ‘A’ Agile
Focus on mechanics
Local optimization
Engineering focused
Agile
Focus on values
Organizational optimization
Company wide

51. What You Can Start Doing Tomorrow
Focus on Agile Values
Educate Everyone
Create an Agile Adoption Backlog
Inspection & Adapt

52.
@tommynorman
Q & A