Scrum training 2

SPRINT PLANNING

PhongBA Scrum Master FSU11.BU8

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Scrum Process

Product Backlog vs Sprint Backlog

Sprint Planning (Part 1)

Strategical level planning
Prioritize/select features
Discuss acceptance criteria
Verify understanding
- 1 hour
per sprint/week

Sprint Planning (Part 2)

Tactical level planning
Define sprint backlog items
Estimate sprint backlog items
Use velocity (Yesterdays Weather)
Share commitment
- 1 hour
per sprint/week

Sprint Planning Schedule

Prepare for Sprint Planning
Do Sprint Planning
Output
Quality
Estimating
Communication
Management
Sprint Planning priority list

Sprint Planning Agenda sample

Prepare for Sprint Planning

Product Owner understand well
items in Product backlog

Importance ratings
in Product backlog

Product backlog

Product Owner

OUTPUT
A sprint goal
A list of team members
A sprint backlog
A defined sprint demo date
A defined time and place for the daily scrum

QUALITY (1/3)
Product owner

Team

QUALITY (2/3)

Scrum Master

QUALITY (3/3)

Quality is not negotiable !!!!!!

ESTIMATING: Choose stories in sprint

Product owner

Team

ESTIMATING: Choose stories in sprint

Product owner

ESTIMATING: Choose stories in sprint

Product owner

ESTIMATING: Choose stories in sprint

Product owner

ESTIMATING: Choose stories in sprint

Team

ESTIMATING: Gut feel

ESTIMATING: Velocity calculation

Step 1: Decide estimated velocity

Step 2: Calculate how many stories you can add
without exceeding estimated velocity

ESTIMATING: Yesterday weather

& focus factor

ESTIMATING: Poker card

ESTIMATING: Poker card

ESTIMATING: Poker card

80% economic time

48 times faster
People don't need work with time estimation job

ESTIMATING: Problems

ESTIMATING: Problems

COMMUNICATION
Public Sprint goals
Index cards using
Definition of DONE
Clarifying stories

COMMUNICATION: public sprint goals

COMMUNICATION: Index cards using

COMMUNICATION: Index cards using

Product owner

Scrum Master

Team

COMMUNICATION: definition of DONE

Coded,
commented,
checked in,
integrated,
reviewed,
unit tested,
deployed to test environment,
passed user acceptance test,
documented...
= DONE

COMMUNICATION: clarifying stories

US 10438:
Add user
Add users by manually
doing SQL towards DB

5 points
Product owner

A nice web GUI

to add, remove, delete,
search users

20 points

How to demo?
Team

COMMUNICATION: clarifying stories

0.5 point

40 points

2-8 man-days = 5-13 points

MANAGEMENT
Time-box meeting
Defining the sprint length
Daily scrum schedule

Scrum Master

MANAGEMENT: Time-box meeting

Alarm remaining time

SHOULDN'T extend sprint planning
Reschedule one more meeting
if time is not enough

MANAGEMENT: Defining the sprint length

DO

ANALYZING

FIXING

Short sprints
= short feedback cycle
= more frequent deliveries
= more frequent customer feedback
= less time spent running in the wrong direction
= learn and improve faster

MANAGEMENT: Daily scrum schedule

When you come to work in

the morning, you have to try to
remember what you did yesterday
so that you can report this

When you come to work in

the morning, you have to try to
remember what you told people
yesterday about what you will be
doing today

>> What are you going to DO ?

>> What you DID ?

Sprint Planning priority list

#6 Specified time and place for daily scrum.
#5 Velocity & resource calculations, as a reality check for your sprint plan.
#4 How to demo filled in for each story in sprint.
#2 List of which stories the team has accepted for this sprint.
#1

A sprint goal and demo date.

#3 Estimate filled in for each story in sprint.

#7 Stories broken down into tasks.

Sprint Planning priority list

#1
#2
#3
#4

A sprint goal and demo date.

List of which stories the team has accepted for this sprint.
Estimate filled in for each story in sprint.
How to demo filled in for each story in sprint.

#5 Velocity & resource calculations, as a reality check for your sprint plan.
#6 Specified time and place for daily scrum.
#7

Stories broken down into tasks.

Practices

Q&A

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