rituals of scrum

RITUALS OF SCRUM

Erin Beierwaltes

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Erin Beierwaltes

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How do we keep Scrum going?



Scrum Framework

Roles

• Product Owner

• ScrumMaster• Team

Rituals

• Daily Scrum• Sprint

Planning• Sprint Review• Sprint

Retrospective

Artifacts

• Product Backlog

• Sprint Backlog

• Burndown Chart


Rituals

Sprint Planning

Daily Scrum

Meeting

Sprint Revie

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Sprint Retrospective



Daily Scrum Basics

What did you do yesterday?

What will you do today?

Who do you need to work with today?

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2

3

Daily Scrum

Daily 15 minutes Stand-up Everyone is invited

(this means the whole world)

Helps avoid other unnecessary meetings

Not a status meeting for ScrumMaster

Not for problem solving

Those not in scrum “roles” should not speak (have a working agreement)

What it is What it is NOT

How is your Daily Scrum going?

Are the engineers talking directly to you? Do conversations get into detail? Do team members ever ask for help? Are you looking at the story status?



Sprint Review Basics

Team demonstrates working software


Sprint Review

Team presents what it accomplished during the sprint (based on the agreed definition of “done”)

Demo of working, live software One demo stories that are “DONE” NO SLIDES Entire team participates Invite the World Final acceptance of stories (velocity) Review backlog and add/modify stories


How is your Sprint Review going?

How is your definition of “done”? Who’s attending? Who’s demo-ing every week? Are you leaving acceptance to this

meeting?



Sprint Retrospective Basics

Gather Data

(start, stop, continue)

Discuss and

Brainstorm

Create Action Items



Sprint Retrospective

Review what is and what is not working with the scrum implementation

Retro after EVERY sprint Whole team participation Time-boxed Create action items Formatted and Facilitated (Agile Retrospectives by

Esther Derby and Diana Larsen)



How is your Retrospective going?

Do you have a clear agenda with timeboxes?

Do you end with action items? Is everyone engaged and giving ideas? How often does the team follow through

on the action items?

http://agile.conscires.com/2011/03/10/agile-retrospectives-hey-scrummaster-wheres-your-agenda/



Sprint Planning Basics

Team selects User Story from the

product backlog they can commit to

completing

Sprint backlog items are created for the User Story.

Collaboratively.

Repeat until team can no longer commit. (Use

velocity as a check point)



1. Select a Sprint Goal/Theme2. Product Owner presents

User Story3. Team accepts or declines

story after discussion with Product Owner (NOT a design session)

4. Team creates tasks in hours5. Product Owner continues to

present stories in priority order team capacity is reached

6. Team makes final sprint commitment (Fist of Five)

Sprint Planning

Team Capacity

Product Backlog

Current Product

(tech debt)

Retrospective Action

Items

Sprint Goal

Sprint Backlog

VelocitySprint

Commitment

How is your Sprint Planning going?

1. Are stories ready for consumption?2. Are you over-committing?3. Is the whole team engaged?4. Did you remember to include technical

debt and retrospective action items?



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