Are you wondering why this Scrum thing does not work for your development team? Are you planning to start with Scrum and want to get it right from the beginning? Or do you just want to verify which flavor of Scrum your team is using and whether you are really gaining all those benefits everyone is talking about?

Join me in this session where I will explain why mechanical Scrum is not enough in the world of professional software development. Besides implementing Scrum components (roles, events and artifacts) teams need to live by the Scrum Values and Principles, working together to solve and overcome issues and regularly inspecting and adapting the way they work. Besides that, they need to strive for Technical Excellence, adopting and frequently improving effective DevOps technical practices and engineering standards. Only then, they are true Professional Scrum Teams that can deliver a potentially releasable increment of software every Sprint.

And yes, Professional Scrum Teams use smart toolsets that support them in their everyday activities. This session will showcase Azure DevOps as an integrated platform of services providing all tools for implementing Scrum together with DevOps practices. You will see how to implement Scrum backlogs, build an automated build and release pipeline, implement the code review workflow and start automating your testing efforts testing early in the development process.