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The daily stand up is a 15-minute time-boxed event for the development team to plan for the next 24 hours. It is a short, team status check, held every day, usually at a set time. The Scrum framework calls the daily stand-up a ‘Daily Scrum’. Video: Daily Stand Up Meeting Agenda Organized and facilitated by […]
Sprint Planning is one of the ceremonies in SCRUM. This event involves the SCRUM team looking at the top priority user stories in the Product Backlog. And then based on their capacity, they commit to the work that can be delivered by the end of the Sprint. Video: Sprint Planning Sprint Planning Process The process […]
In an earlier article, we spoke about Release Planning briefly. Let us take an example here and take a call. In Agile, Release Planning is typically aligned with Product Roadmap, where the features associated with a milestone in the roadmap are targeted for the release that is closest to the milestone. A release typically contains […]
Definition of Done and Definition of Ready needs to be agreed upon between the Agile team members. This helps the team in being on the same page when someone says something is Definition of Done Definition of Done can be defined for and not limited to the following. Video: Definition of Done Sprint (Example) Story […]
Sprints in SCRUM, are time-boxes of short duration during which a “Done”, useable, and potentially releasable product Increment is created. Sprint Characteristics Video: Sprints in SCRUM Sprint Duration One of the most asked questions: What should be the size of the duration? While each sprint is planned separately, the number and length of sprints in […]
In iteration-based agile, the product owner often works with the team to prepare some stories for the upcoming iteration during one or more sessions in the middle of the iteration. The purpose of these meetings is to refine enough stories so the team understands what the stories are and how large the stories are in […]
SCRUM Epics and Stories: In Agile, requirements get refined as they get decomposed. The most popular units of requirement in SCRUM are Epics and Stories Themes & Epics Themes are the most abstract form of a requirement in Agile or SCRUM. It is a group of features and user stories that share a common attribute, […]
A Product Roadmap Is a high-level, strategic plan, that describes the likely development of the product over the next period of time. Video: Product Roadmap Need for a Roadmap The roadmap should support the products’ Roadmap briefing is an Agile ceremony that happens typically anywhere between once in a quarter to once a year. Here […]
There are primarily four SCRUM ceremonies that we can go through in chronological order. Video: SCRUM Ceremonies Sprint Planning First in order comes Sprint Planning. Now typically this comes on the first day of the Sprint and typically lasts for two hours for a two-week Sprint. Some teams also do it on the last day […]
SCRUM does have its own SDLC, as you can consider every iteration as a mini waterfall 😊. So what does the SCRUM Lifecycle look like? Video: SCRUM Lifecycle The Lifecycle We have to Product Backlog which as we discussed is the list of requirements. The Sprint planning is a meeting where the team decides which […]
