Sprint Lifecycle

Question 1

What are the stages of the sprint lifecycle?

Answer 1

• Spring Planning Meeting
• Sprint
• Sprint review
• Sprint retrospective

Question 2

Explain sprint planning meeting

Answer 2

Every 2 weeks, the team gets together for 2 hours to plan the next sprint, and they create/split tickets
- they define goals, select tasks, and come up with a sprint plan

QA involvement
- actively involved in conversation
- learns the product during discussion
- estimates how much testing and automation will need to be done
- in some companies, QA creates tickets for themselves to create automation for every dev ticket

Question 3

Explain sprint

Answer 3

Daily Standups, development, testing, and refinement

Daily sync
- What did we do yesterday
- What are we doing today
- Are there any blockers

Continuous integration and testing - devs integrate their work, and testers verify each feature works as expected

Question 4

Explain sprint review

Answer 4

• Last day of sprint
• demonstrate completed work to product owner and possibly end users, and gather feedback
• team demonstrates work that was done, discusses work that was not done, and collaborates on what to do next

Question 5

Explain Sprint retro

Answer 5

• after sprint
• usually first part of sprint planning meeting, but can be a separate meeting
• questions
• what went well
• what did not go well
• what can we improve
• then team starts next sprint planning

Question 6

What do you do if your team didn’t close some tickets in the sprint run?

Answer 6

We either move them to the next sprint or move them back to the backlog depending on the priority of those and upcoming tickets (which might be more important)