The sprint planning meeting is held before the sprint begins. The purpose of this meeting is to define the sprint plan and set sprint goals. The sprint plan includes agreeing on the number of backlog items in the sprint that will be the responsibility of the development team, as well as determining the goals for the current sprint and sprint backlog.
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The Scrum Master is responsible for ensuring that everyone related to a project, whether chickens or pigs, follows the rules of Scrum.
Continue readingRules of Scrum Ceremonies — Daily Scrum Meeting
Daily scrum meeting (called daily stand up meeting) is usually taken place every morning on each sprint, the time lasts approximately 15 minutes. In the scrum agile practice, the team will typically hold a meeting on time at 9:00 in the same place.
Continue readingScrum Process: From Product Backlog Items to Shippable Product Increment
The objective of the day-to-day work of a sprint is to create shippable product increment for the product in a form that can be delivered to a customer or user. Within the context of a single sprint, a product increment or shippable increment means that a work product has been developed, integrated, tested, and documented according to the project definition of done and is deemed ready to release.
Continue readingScrum Guide — How To Organize Retrospective Meeting
The Sprint Retrospective occurs after the Sprint Review and prior to the next Sprint Planning. This is at most a three-hour meeting for one-month Sprints. The retrospective session is basically an “improvement” meeting held to find ways and means to identify potential pitfalls, past mistakes, and seek out new ways to avoid those mistakes, which are attended by all — the product owner, scrum master, development team members, and optionally with the stakeholders.
Continue readingLean + Agile Approach for Software Development
Although often treated as distinct methodologies, both Agile and Lean are rooted in similar values. These methodologies continue to evolve as they expand into new industries, applications, and opportunities, and many organizations have had amazing success in drawing on elements of both. Using Lean’s systems thinking and continuous improvement approach, agile development practices can be used to help organizations build healthy, innovative organizations that can sustainably deliver customer value.
Continue readingScrum: A Comprehensive Tutorial
Scrum itself is a simple framework for effective team collaboration on complex products. The Scrum Guide to explain scrum clearly and concisely. this guide contains a definition of scrum. This definition consists of Scrum’s roles, events, artifacts, and the rules that tie them together. Each component within the framework serves a specific purpose and is essential to Scrum’s success and usage. The rules of Scrum bind together the roles, events, and artifacts, governing the relationships and interaction
Continue readingWhy Scrum Masters love Scrum?
A Scrum master is a member of a Scrum team. Their task is to create a productive work environment and guide others to understand the values, principles, and practices of Scrum. scrum directors tend to be people-oriented, have a high EQ, and find joy in helping their team members grow.
Continue readingWhy Product Owners love Scrum?
A Product Owner who owns the product on behalf of the company is a part of a Scrum team. However, a product owner has no authority over other members of the team, same as the Scrum Master. A Product Owner is responsible for looking after a product for an extended period of time and is accountable for achieving product success. As the product owner, you should directly interact with the customers and users, the development team, and other key stakeholders, as the picture below shows.
Continue readingWhy it should be Sprint Review instead of Sprint Demo?
A Sprint Review is more than just a demo; it is a review of the completed Sprint, the Product Backlog, and the Marketplace. Admittedly, demos are an important part of the Sprint Review. The purpose of the Sprint Review meeting is for the team to show the customers and stakeholders the work they have accomplished over the sprint and compare it to the commitment given at the beginning of the sprint.
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