Scrum: It’s What Proposal Teams Do
Vincent Wright posted a note about Scrum project management and pointed to this article about Scrum on Wikipedia. Next time you need to train a new person (on your team or interfacing with your team), this might be helpful.
Scrum is taken from a term in Rugby, a sport similar to Proposal writing.
A scrum project is organized into sprints, just as proposal teams organize around individual proposals.
Team members are divided into Pigs and Chickens:
Breakfast is the most important meal of the day. However, while chickens make a contribution, pigs are fully committed.
Chickens include the SMEs, salespeople, management, technical staff and stakeholders in your organization. The pigs are the ones who must get the proposal out the door. Chickens can edit the “Product Backlog” (AKA the proposal storyboards) and provide input to pigs as requested. However, the Pigs are fully committed to the effort and will make the proposal happen.
At the daily status meetings, only pigs are allowed to speak, though chickens may attend. The daily meeting is “time boxed” to 15 minutes, and everyone arrives on time or suffers the team punishment. This meeting is held standing.
The Sprintmaster (aka proposal team leader/proposal manager/proposal coordinator) keeps a Burn Chart, detailing what remains to be done before the end of the sprint (proposal delivery).
Every “sprint” (proposal) is followed by a debrief meeting called a Sprint Retrospective.
When trying to explain what and how we work, having other examples is helpful.
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