Processes, Infrastructure, People & Culture

Organization Mission

Content of a Mission The mission covers the areas of responsibility (the What) and the culture and standards of behavior (the How). The mission clarifies the following points: What is our self-image. What is the purpose of the team? How does the team position itself within the cluster and the organization? What are the responsibilities…

Organization Retrospective

The Organization Retrospective offers the Organization Scrum Master (OSM) the opportunity to review the working methods of the organization, represented by the Portfolio Owner (PFO) and the Cluster System Engineer Group (CSEG) , as well as improvements to the Identify and plan how to work for the coming cycle . The Organization Retrospective takes place…

Product Development

1. Elicit System Functions and Features –Define Context & Scope (Intended use, environments, markets) –Stakeholders & Needs, external interfaces –Quality Attributes, System Use Cases 2.Model a coarse System Architecture/Concept incl. test and production systems (Multiple options maybe necessary) –Output: Components and interfaces 3.Determine maturity of concepts, components and interfaces by gatherings K-Gaps (unknown concepts,…

Process Management

Process management is the set of activities involved in planning, defining, and improving processes and workflows across the entire organization.

Team Improvement Backlog

The Improvement Backlog describes the supply of improvements and is integrated into the work planning by the relevant group, self-organized. A rule that describes how much work the group spends on improvements (e.g. 10-20%) helps to keep the predictability of other Backlog Items high. The Improvement Backlog is the planning and structuring tool of the…

Team Mission

Team Retrospective

The Team Retrospective gives the team the opportunity to review themselves and to identify and plan improvements in the way they work for the upcoming iteration . It takes place between the Team Review and the next Team Planning. For a four-week iteration, an upper limit of three hours is set. The meeting is usually…

Team Scrum Master (TSM)

Team Scrum Master (TSM) The TSM ensures that the members of his Team can work optimally. He ensures an optimal work flow between the team members, by discovering improvements and solving disabilities and problems (presented managed in the Team Improvement Backlog) that arise in the cooperation of the teams. This especially concerns those that cannot…

Team Scrum Master Group (TSMG)

The Team Scrum Master Group with the Cluster Scrum Master (CSM) has responsibility at the Cluster and System level for the product development process, the infrastructure and the cultural aspects . Together with the Cluster Scrum Master (CSM) , the Team Scrum Master Group has the following tasks: Creating and optimizing the team setup as…

Backlog Item Types

“The Backlog is the only source of the work.” The general description of Backlogs and their properties can be found here. The hierarchy of the Backlog structure describes (in a simple way) the product development process. Backlog entries or Backlog Items are the individual building blocks of backlogs. They are clearly ranked within the backlogs,…