Better Requirements for Scrum

Better Requirements for Scrum is Producore’s course that radically improves the outcomes for Scrum teams. Anyone who participates in, works with, or manages Scrum teams, from developers to executive management can attend this course and bring the benefits of what they learned back to their organization. It is delivered online and is available as a public course and can be scheduled privately for your internal team as well.

Why Register?

Regularly failing to meet sprint commitments happens far too often for Scrum teams but it’s the effect, not the cause. Think back to your most recent difficult sprint. Did you experience any of the following?
  • Time wasted on rework causing delays
  • Old functionality broken by new (regressions)
  • Bugs from missing details or misunderstandings
  • Time wasted creating unnecessary functionality
  • Critical requirement was wrong because it was built from incorrect tribal knowledge
  • Having to rewrite requirements from scratch for changes to existing functionality
  • Low confidence in safety of changes
  • Finding requirements for existing/legacy code next to impossible
  • Code, tests, and requirements drifting apart over time
  • Team blindsided by external dependency
  • Mid-sprint scope creep
  • Necessary functionality only discovered after work already started
  • Rework because requirements change mid-implementation
  • Having to go back to the PO or stakeholders frequently during implementation to get requirements clarified
  • Team builds something that turns out to be wrong because of a misunderstanding
  • Insufficient details in requirements when implementation begins
Sprints don’t just fail on their own. There’s almost always one of these factors or something very similar involved, but the issues above, themselves, are merely symptoms. They cannot be fixed, directly. Instead, the root causes must be resolved:
  • Knowledge about how a system should work (past and present) is not properly captured
  • Implementation often begins on a work item before it is truly ready
The Better Requirements for Scrum course directly addresses these two problems by adding eight things to your Scrum process that will completely transform how your team works without violating any portion of Scrum, itself. Attendees will be taken through the why and the how for each change and might even pick up some details about Scrum they didn’t know along the way. At the end, attendees walk away with a clear picture of how they can enhance their existing application of the Scrum process framework to eliminate the requirements-related problems they may not have even known they had.

What You Will Learn

In order for the course to have its intended effect, we start by making sure everyone is clear on:
  • What the root causes of our problems are
  • What Scrum is
  • What kinds of additions Scrum permits
We then move on to teaching how to address the problems. This is structured around eight crucial process enhancements every Scrum team should make:
  1. Store and maintain requirements in a product knowledgebase
  2. Use persisted requirements to drive implementation
  3. Give every work item its own doneness and readiness criteria
  4. Give Scrum teams the time and processes to be involved in requirements maturation
  5. Allow requirements to mature to readiness without deadlines
  6. Give Scrum permission to not accept work items they don’t understand completely
  7. Ensure Scrum teams do not commit to work items until they are ready
  8. Give Product Owners permission to not accept items that do not meet their definition of done
We teach how to do each of these things, how they fit into the Scrum process, and how they relate to the larger Producore Framework (our proprietary incremental transformation program). When we wrap up, we ensure that everyone sees the big picture - how it all fits together - and help people establish a set of action items to implement these changes in their own team and company.

Format of this Course

This course entails 12 hours of training. In can be delivered in one of three formats:
  • Two days in two 7-hour sessions, each with a 1-hour lunch break.
  • Four days, each with a single 3-hour session.
  • Six days, each with a single two-hour session.

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