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…
This is the second blog post in the “How Much Time Should Each Scrum Practice and Meeting Take” series. This posting focuses on product backlog grooming.
Product backlog grooming (sometimes called product backlog refinement) refers to a set of three main activities:…
This posting is the first in a series of seven postings on how much time a Scrum team should spend on each of the Scrum practices. This posting summarizes the duration of all of the practices. Each of the six succeeding postings focuses on a specific Scrum practice…
Do you have a problem starting your meetings on time? Do people just seem to roll into the room well after a meeting begins without any particular concern as to the consequences of arriving late?
I have this same problem when I teach classes. My classes have a…