Building the Perfect house with Scrum.. or my scrum analogy story

1. You know where you want to build your house

2. You know what type of rooms you want and you have an idea of what furnishing and fittings need to be in the rooms

3. You are the customer (product owner) and you deal with the workers (Scrum Team) directly

4. You have a list of rooms and features you want (Backlog and stories)

5. The workers tell you how many bricks, windows, fixtures, electrics and plumbing (velocity)
they can do in 3 weeks (a sprint)

6. You decide what rooms on the list you want done first and present them to the builders (Sprint Planning 1)

7. The builders agree to doing this, this then becomes their blueprint for their next 3 weeks (Sprint Backlog)

8. They work out how best to give you what you want, and create all the necessary plans and drawings needed(Sprint Planning 2)

9. During the 3 weeks you meet and talk with the workers everyday

10. At the end of the 3 weeks they give you a room with a floor a roof walls plumbing electrical that you can live in

11. The builders are paid and you have a liveable room with all the features and fitting you wanted

12. At this point you decide what the next room is you want and you go through the same process

13. If after five sprints you run out of money, you have five full rooms complete