Dr. Who, the TARDIS and Scrum
Why Scrum is bigger on the inside than it appears on the outside
The BBC’s Dr. Who is one of the most popular TV science fiction series world-wide. I recently took advantage of a trip to a client’s site in Cardiff Bay to visit the Dr. Who Ex perience there, and found myself drawing analogies between aspects of the series and Agile development. I’ve been a fan since I watched the very first Dr.Who episode in November 1963. What hooked me in that first broadcast was the moment when William Hartnell, the actor who played the first Doctor (the incumbent, Peter Capaldi is the twelfth) revealed to his first companions, Ian Chesterton (played by William Russell) and Barabara Wright (Jacqueline Hill), that the Tardis is bigger on the inside than it is on the outside. Tardis stands for Time And Relative Dimensions in Space and is The Doctor’s time-travelling spaceship. Bigger on the inside than it appears on the outside? Scrum is like that. Let me explain.
Bigger on the Inside
The Scrum framework is a very simple set of rules, easy to memorize and easy to understand. Elsewhere I’ve referred to it as the 3-4-5 rule (1): three roles (Scrum Master, Product Owner and Development Team); four artifacts (Product Backlog, Definition of Done, Sprint Backlog and the increment of Potentially Shippable Product) and five Events (the Sprint, the Sprint Planning Meeting, the Daily Scrum, the Sprint Review and the Sprint Retrospective). There are rules governing the interrelationship of these essential elements, of course, and these are spelled out in The Scrum Guide (2).
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