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 blog post is the third and final in a series of three postings where I discuss eight of the reasons why stakeholders fail to attend sprint reviews and I offer suggestions for how to handle each cause.
In the first posting I focused on two reasons that I categorized…
This blog post is the second in a series of three postings where I discuss eight of the reasons why stakeholders fail to attend sprint reviews and I offer suggestions for how to handle each cause.
In the first posting I focused on two reasons that I categorized as…
In a former article about the sprint review I pointed out that the sprint review is a meeting primarily for the benefit of the stakeholders. Yet, over the years I have visited with companies whose stakeholders are often absent at the very meetings where they should…
In my experience it has never been a good idea to “surprise” the stakeholders (e.g., customers, users, internal management) of the product we are building. I can’t recall the last time I’ve heard a stakeholder say, “Wow, I am really surprised by what you are showing me…”…
I frequently get asked if sprints should be required to start on Mondays and end on Fridays. No, absolutely not! Is it common for sprints to align with week boundaries? Sure, but I think that many teams do that for conceptual (calendar) convenience.
Sprints are…
The definition of done is a checklist of the types of work that the team is expected to successfully complete by the end of the sprint, before it can declare its work to be potentially shippable. A team’s definition of done should be determined before it does its first…
I am frequently asked who should attend the various Scrum meetings—sprint planning, daily scrums, sprint review, sprint retrospective, and product backlog grooming. My Essential Scrum book provides detailed answers to all of these questions. However, after numerous…
Almost every week I visit one or two companies to teach an on-site Scrum class or do some form of agile coaching. These days people who take my agile classes are likely to have some experience or exposure (via reading or videos) to Scrum before they attend–and in most…