The scrum events Flashcards
What does “Time boxed events” mean?
That all events have a maximum duration. The duration is fixed and cannot be shortened or lengthened.
What event is the heart of scrum?
The sprint. Duration 4 weeks.
When does a new sprint start?
Directly after the conclusion of the previous sprint
What does a sprint consist of?
- Sprint planning
- Daily scrum
- development
- Sprint review
- Sprint retrospective
How do sprints increase predictability?
By ensuring inspection and adaptation of progress toward a sprint goal.
Can sprint be cancelled? How? Why
Yes.
The product owner has the authority.
Only does this when the sprint goal becomes obsolete. and the sprint no longer makes any sense.
What happens when a sprint is cancelled?
The completed and done product backlog items are reviewed. It might be re-usable. The rest of the items are re-estimated and put back on the product backlog.
What is a sprint planning?
Planning the work to be done in the sprint. Takes maximum 8 hours in a sprint of 4 weeks.
- What can be done
- How can we do it
What is topic 1 in a sprint planning?
1) What can be done
- Product owner sets objective and links product backlog items to it.
- Only development team can assess what can be done.
- The objective is transformed into a sprint goal by the development team
What is topic 2 in a sprint planning?
2) How will the work get done
- The team decides how it will build the functionality in a done product increment
- The backlog items and the plan is called the sprint backlog
- Work for the first days of the sprint is decomposed by the end of the sprint planning
- At the end of the planning the development team should be able to explain how it will function
What is a sprint backlog?
- The backlog items and the plan for the sprint is called the sprint backlog
Negotation between development team and product owner?
The product owner can help clarify and make trade offs with the dev team if it has too much or too little work.
Who can be present?
The scrum team but also other people may be invited in order to give advice.
What is a sprint goal?
Objective for a sprint.
It provides guidance for the development team.
Kept in mind.
What is a daily scrum?
- 15 minute time boxed event
- Synchronize activities and create 24h plan
- Inspecting the last work done, and forcasting work to do
What do members explain in the daily scrum?
What did i do yesterday
What will i do today
What impediments do i see?
What often happens directly after the daily scrum?
Members meet fr detailed discussions to adapt, or replan the rest of the sprints work
What is the time box for the daily scrum?
15 minutes, the scrum master teached the team to keep it within this limit
Who participates in the daily scrum?
Only development team members
What is a sprint review?
- a 4 hour meeting
- Inspect increment and adapt the product backlog if needed
- Scrum team and stakeholders collaborate about what was done in the sprint
- Both talk about next things that can be done to optimize value
Who can join the sprint review?
The development team and key stakeholders invited by the product owner
What is done during the sprint review?
- Product backlog discussed by product owner
- Process discussed by dev team
- Work demonstration by dev team
- New time est by prod owner
- What to do next?
- Context analysis, did the market change?
What is result of sprint review?
- Revised product backlog with probable items for next sprint
- Potential adjustment backlog according to changes in context
What is a sprint retrospective?
- 3 hour meeting
- Scrum team inspects itself and creates plan for improvement
What does a sprint retrospective look at?
- Potential improvements and plan for People Relationships Process Tools
Is sprint retrospective only time for improvements?
No. Can be any time. This however is a formal opportunity to focus on inspection and adaptation.
