Agile Ceremonies and Calendars

Sprint Calendar

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Daily Events

• 9:30a Standup

Retro

Retrospectives

GOALS: Improve processes and cycle times

AUDIENCE: The whole product team

PROCESS:

1. Review sprint outcome, velocity, and other metrics

2. Start doing, stop doing, continue doing

3. Follow up with action items

Sprint Preperation

Sprint Preparation

GOALS:

• Identify stories needed to be refined for the next sprint

AUDIENCE:

• Product Team

• Stakeholders

PROCESS:

1. Go through the existing sprint and identify what will and will not be done

2. Go through each epic and identify what stories should be completed

3. Populate the next sprint with shell stories that approximate the amount of work that can be completed

4. Write up a sprint goal summary

5. Communicate this estimate to stakeholders

Refinement

Refinement - For Development

GOALS:

• Get stories pointed and ready for development.

AUDIENCE:

• Product team members relevant to the story being refined.

PROCESS:

1. TPO refines the story in a first pass.

2. The team collectively refines the story until the story is ready to be pointed (Definition of Ready).

3. The team points the story (Story Pointing - Fibonacci Time Points), including considerations from the Definition Of Done.

4. The story is marked as Ready and optionally assigned to the person who will take on the work.

Sprint Planning

Sprint Planning

GOAL: Finalize the sprint goal and what will be done in the sprint.

AUDIENCE: The whole product team.

PROCESS:

1. Review the proposed sprint goal.

2. Review capacity

3. For each proposed story, starting with the highest priority

   1. Summarize the story

   2. Make sure the team feels comfortable adding it to the sprint

4. Finalize the sprint goal