A sprint goal describes the business purpose and value of the sprint. The sprint goal is the foundation of a mutual commitment made by the development team and the product owner. The team commits to meeting the goal by the end of the sprint; the product owner commits to…
If your organization chooses to do either fixed-date release planning or fixed-scope release planning, you will want a way to communicate your team's progress throughout the release. Although any highly visible way of communicating progress is appropriate, many agile…
Organizations often find it useful to plan some distance out into the future. Perhaps their goal is deliver on a known future date (the most common agile approach). If so, then fixed-date release planning should be used.
If an organization has determined that the scope…
Whether your organization intends to deploy every sprint, every few sprints, or continuously, most organizations find some amount of longer-term, higher-level planning to be useful. I refer to this type of planning as release planning. If the term release planning seems…
When doing agile development with Scrum is there a project manager role? Formally, Scrum defines three roles: product owner, ScrumMaster, and development team. So, there is no specific role called project manager when using Scrum.
A common misperception is that the…
This is the seventh and final blog post in the “How Much Time Should Each Scrum Practice and Meeting Take” series. This posting focuses on sprint execution.
In Scrum, a sprint refers to the entire period of time, between one week and a calendar month, when the Scrum…
This is the sixth blog post in the “How Much Time Should Each Scrum Practice and Meeting Take” series. This posting focuses on the sprint retrospective.
The purpose of the sprint retrospective is to inspect and adapt the Scrum team’s process. During retrospectives,…
This is the fifth blog post in the “How Much Time Should Each Scrum Practice and Meeting Take” series. This posting focuses on the sprint review.
The purpose of the sprint review meeting is to give everyone (in particular stakeholders) with input to the product…
This is the fourth blog post in the “How Much Time Should Each Scrum Practice and Meeting Take” series. This posting focuses on the daily scrum.
The daily scrum is a critical, daily inspect-and-adapt activity. The purpose of the daily scrum is to help a self-organizing…
This is the third blog post in the “How Much Time Should Each Scrum Practice and Meeting Take” series. This posting focuses on sprint planning.
Sprint planning is a recurring, just-in-time activity that takes place at the beginning of each sprint. The purpose of sprint…