• There has been a quest for an “Agile Maturity Model” going on for some time now
    • Are we Agile?
    • How Agile are we?
    • Where should we improve?
    • Can we get a certification that will convince our customers that we are agile?
  • Maturity levels pattern
    • The Scrum Maturity Model can be seen in relation to this generic maturity model
      1. Optimizing 🡪 Continuous process improvement
      1. Managed 🡪 Institutionalized processes
      1. Defined 🡪 Standard methodology
      1. Repeatable 🡪 Localized standards
      1. Initial 🡪 Individualized
  • The scrum maturity model (SMM) is supposedly “an applicable, useful and viable approach to reduce the failed development projects rate within the evaluation set of organizations.”
    • SMM – Level 2
      • E.1 Goal: Basic Scrum Management
        • E.1.1 Objective: Scrum Roles Exist
        • E.1.2 Objective: Scrum Artifacts Exist
        • E.1.3 Objective: Scrum Meetings Occur and are Participated
        • E.1.4 Objective: Scrum Process Flow is Respected
      • E.2 Goal: Software Requirements Engineering
        • E.2.1 Objective: Clear definition of Product Owner
        • E.2.2 Objective: Product Backlog Management
        • E.2.3 Objective: Successful Sprint Planning Meetings
    • SMM – Level 3
      • F.1 Goal: Customer Relationship Management
        • F.1.1 Objective: definition of a done exists
        • F.1.2 Objective: Product Owner available
        • F.1.3 Objective: Successful Sprint Review Meetings
      • F.2 Goal: Iteration Management
        • F.2.1 Objective: Sprint Backlog Management
        • F.2.2 Objective: Planned iterations
        • F.2.3 Objective: Successful Daily Scrum
        • F.2.4 Objective: Measured Velocity
    • SMM – Level 4
      • G.1 Goal: united Project Management
        • G.1.1 Objective: United Project Management
      • G.2 Goal: Measurement and Analysis Management
        • G.2.1 Objective: Measurement and Analysis Management
    • SMM – Level 5
      • H.1 Goal: Performance Management
        • H.1.1 Objective: Successful Sprint Retrospective
        • H.1.2 Objective: Positive Indicators
  • Scrum Maturity Model succeeds as the roadmap for small-medium organizations that seek
    • self-improvement and guidance
    • a self-evaluation model to rethink actual Scrum adoption for specific organizations
    • a model to classify and compare the maturity of organizations for benchmarking purposes
  • The SMM and others are based on some kind of assumption of uni-dimensionality and linearity. There is an article where this whole concept is picked apart as they show with statistical methods that these concepts are multi-dimensional and non-linear