Future of Scrum: Parallel Pipelining of Sprints in Complex Projects

  • Authors:
  • Jeff Sutherland

  • Affiliations:
  • Patientkeeper, Inc., Brighton, MA, US

  • Venue:
  • ADC '05 Proceedings of the Agile Development Conference
  • Year:
  • 2005

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Abstract

The Scrum Agile development process was invented to rapidly drivenew product to market. Here, one of the inventors of Scrum goesback to Scrum basics, throws out preconceived notions, and designsAdvanced Scrum using multiple overlapping Sprints within the sameScrum teams. This methodology delivers increasing applicationfunctionality to market at a pace that overwhelms competitors usinga MetaScrum for release planning, variable length Sprints,overlapping Sprints for a single team, pre-staging Product Backlog,daily Scrum of Scrums meetings, and automation and integration ofProduct Backlog and Sprint Backlog with real-time reporting.Administrative overhead for dozens of enterprise product releases ayear is less than 60 seconds a day per developer and less than 10minutes a day for a ScrumMaster. While Advanced Scrum is not forthe uninitiated, the future of Scrum is still Scrum, just faster,better, and cooler