🏃♀️What is Scrum?
This page shows the structure and meetings of Sprints. Sprints are part of the Scrum method, which is an Agile method.
What's Scrum?
Scrum is a way of carrying out Agile such that work is always done in a fixed timeframe. Scrum can carry out work deliverables every one week, two weeks, three weeks, or four weeks. Scrum has specific meetings set in place to ensure progress and alignment on teams.
Here's a picture of Scrum method in detail:
Scrum is managed through chunks of work called Sprints. Sprints are a fixed-timeframe.
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Scrum Meetings
The Scrum Framework has the following process:
Sprint planning
Sprint backlog
Sprint increments
Daily standups
Sprint review (AKA demo)
Sprint retrospectives
Other meetings that are important for product strategy:
Backlog / requirements refinement meetings - reviewing tickets that have requirements with other teams to ensure they are accurate and ready.
Level of effort estimation - reviewing the tickets that are refined to determine their complexity as a team through story points or t-shirt sizes.
Sprint planning
What is it?
Sprint Planning meeting is a meeting where the entire team gets together and plans their next upcoming sprint. Product Strategy teams should rely on the team to consult in priorities based on current and previous work, and the entire team should align together in the goals.
Who owns it?
Product strategy team.
When does it happen?
Before every sprint begins.
What are the outcomes?
Sprint Goals (outcomes for the sprint).
Planned work tasks in the backlog.
Assignees to the tasks.
Sub-tasks (breaking down the tasks if needed).
Daily Standup
What is it?
A daily standup is a full-team touch base for visibility. Everyone on the team needs to attend standup everyday to report on their progress:
What did you do yesterday?
What are you doing / did you do today?
What blockers do you have?
The most important aspect of this meeting is identifying blockers for the team, things that prevent team members from succeeding in their work. Together the team should discuss what they should do to remove the blockers together.
Who owns it?
The entire team is accountable to run standup.
When does it happen?
Everyday, either in a live 15 - 30 minute meeting or online.
What are the outcomes?
Full team visibility into progress.
Unblocked blockers.
Sprint demo
What is it?
Who owns it?
When does it happen?
What are the outcomes?
Sprint retrospective
What is it?
Who owns it?
When does it happen?
What are the outcomes?
Sprint Schedule
One-week Sprint Schedule
Before the sprint
Monday
Tuesday
Wednesday
Thursday
Friday
Two-week Sprint Schedule
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