Scrum: a Breathtakingly Brief and Agile Introduction
Unlike the traditional “post mortem,” the aim of a retrospective is never to generate a long laundry list of things that went well and things that went wrong, but to identify no more than one or two strategic changes to make in the next sprint. It’s about process improvement.
Hillary Louise Johnson • Scrum: a Breathtakingly Brief and Agile Introduction
Each participant quickly shares: What tasks I’ve completed since the last daily scrum. What tasks I expect to complete by the next daily scrum. What obstacles are slowing me down. The goal of this meeting is to inspect and adapt the work the team members are doing, in order to successfully complete the stories that the team has committed to deliver
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Part One: “What will we do?” The goal of part one of the sprint planning meeting is to emerge with a set of “committed” stories that the whole team believes they can deliver by the end of the sprint. The product owner leads this part of the meeting.
Hillary Louise Johnson • Scrum: a Breathtakingly Brief and Agile Introduction
The simplest task board consists of three columns: to do, doing and done. Tasks move across the board, providing visibility regarding which tasks are done, which are in progress, and which are yet to be started. This visibility helps the team inspect their current situation and adapt as needed. The board also helps stakeholders see the progress tha
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the product owner controls the order, sometimes called priority, of items in the team’s backlog. In scrum, no-one but the product owner is authorized to ask the team to do work or to change the order of backlog items.
Hillary Louise Johnson • Scrum: a Breathtakingly Brief and Agile Introduction
The product owner is responsible for recording the requirements, often in the form of user stories (eg, “As a , I want , so that I can ”) and adding them to the product backlog.
Hillary Louise Johnson • Scrum: a Breathtakingly Brief and Agile Introduction
The Sprint Cycle The sprint cycle consists of several meetings, often called ceremonies: sprint planning daily scrum story time sprint review retrospective