Implementing SCRUM for Large Scale Drupal (LSD): success and fails

This session will be based on a real life experience trying to implement SCRUM methodology for one of our large-scale Drupal projects in the FFW company we'll be focussed on what our approach has been, what challenges the team has beenf acing along the project execution and finally - the lessons learned.

Beside all successful stories related to how flexible, how fancy and friendly the idealistic SCRUM approach is, we will be discussing with you also some of the most critical topics from project management perspective. This is why we’ll put extra focus on how SCRUM would works in not an ideal world and what are the challenges implementing it for a real project:

• Why Scrum is good enough to be applied for a complex Drupal project;
• Defining and understanding well enough the different roles in Scrum;
• “Self-organized team” or how the production team's mindset should be changed;
• Is there an option to deliver a Scrum project with already predefined scope and fixed budget;
• User stories definition , acceptance criteria, technical debt, retrospective meetings: do we really need to take care of these and why?
• The most common mistakes understanding Scrum and how to prevent them;
• Tips that will lead us to a successful project delivery using Scrum

This session is addressed to all people willing to implement Agile and especially SCRUM approach for their projects as based on our real experience working on Drupal Large Scale (LSD) Drupal projects we coinsider that are able to provide valuable hints and examples for both success and failiures.