Sprint Guide

General

  • Each sprint named – convention: <adjective> <animal>
  • Each sprint lasts 2 weeks
  • Scrum occurs every 2 weeks
  • Release dates every two weeks, or amended in sprint
  • Collate all requests before the scrum in the idea column
  • No daily huddles – we essentially huddle with ourselves, updating the board
  • Elevate obstacles where needed, if there is nothing in obstacles, everything should get done

Roles

  • Project owner
    • Ordering the backlog to best achieve goals and missions;
    • Ensuring the Team understands items in the Backlog to the level needed.
  • Scrum master
    • Facilitate scrum meetings
    • Constantly feedback to team on scrum improvements
    • Create sprint notes and release notes
    • Reallllyyyy needs to stay on top of timings, ordinarily has a stop watch and a bell to alert team to move on. To begin, will just time and nag!

 

Example Agenda

Sprint Recap

  • Run through all tasks in the complete, did they take longer or shorter than expected?
  • Any incomplete tasks? How many points left on the incomplete tasks? Why did they stutter?
  • What sheets/roadmaps need to be updated
  • What is ready to release? Sprint release date still on target? Which regions?

Story Points

  • Pointing system: 0, 0.5, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 20, 40, 100.
  • Relative to time, below is a suggestion but we can discuss in the sprint:
    • 0 = takes little to no time
    • 0.5 = half an hour
    • 1 = 1 hour
    • 2 = 2 hours
    • 5 = half a day
    • 8 = a day
    • 40 = a week
    • 100 = one person’s entire sprint time
  • Run through any absences in the sprint time, them work out how many points we have each available, for example 80 points for full two weeks dedicated to sprint
  • Run through each and every idea, and allocate points to it on the Trello board
  • Points can encompass anything that takes time, ie meetings with stakeholders

Prioritise

  • Run through each label (content, automation, merchandising), and the sub-product owners run through the priority tasks
  • Project owner steps in where needed, and prioritises tasks
  • Long term, the scrum should aim to be self-sufficient, without the product owner who would provide vision beforehand
  • Priorities shown by order in the column, top is high, bottom is low
  • Label for urgent, or critical tasks
  • Check the number of points per label aligns with team capacity

 

Useful Reads

If you want to read more, this link is super useful: https://www.scrumguides.org/scrum-guide.html

https://www.scrum.org/resources/blog/daily-scrum-tips-tactics

 

This article was prepared by Connor Banks