An overview of the rituals or ceremonies in Scrum that helps the agile teams to manage their activities. The slide says how these rituals act as the indispensable glue that keeps the team working in concert to deliver the right product for the environment, without the overwhelming process and procedure that can strangle the creativity out of a project effort.

1. Rituals of Scrum Erin Beierwaltes

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9. How do we keep Scrum going? Erin Beierwaltes http://agile.conscires.com

10. Scrum Framework Erin Beierwaltes http://agile.conscires.com

11. Rituals Daily Scrum Meeting Sprint Planning Sprint Review Sprint Retrospective Erin Beierwaltes http://agile.conscires.com

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13. Daily Scrum Daily 15 minutes Stand-up Everyone is invited (this means the whole world) Helps avoid other unnecessary meetings Not a status meeting for ScrumMaster Not for problem solving Those not in scrum “roles” should not speak (have a working agreement) What it is What it is NOT

14. How is your Daily Scrum going? Are the engineers talking directly to you? Do conversations get into detail? Do team members ever ask for help? Are you looking at the story status? Erin Beierwaltes http://agile.conscires.com

15. Sprint Review Basics Team demonstrates working software Erin Beierwaltes http://agile.conscires.com

16. Sprint Review Team presents what it accomplished during the sprint (based on the agreed definition of “done”) Demo of working, live software One demo stories that are “DONE” NO SLIDES Entire team participates Invite the World Final acceptance of stories (velocity) Review backlog and add/modify stories Erin Beierwaltes http://agile.conscires.com

17. How is your Sprint Review going? How is your definition of “done”? Who’s attending? Who’s demo-ing every week? Are you leaving acceptance to this meeting? Erin Beierwaltes http://agile.conscires.com

18. Sprint Retrospective Basics Erin Beierwaltes http://agile.conscires.com

19. Sprint Retrospective Review what is and what is not working with the scrum implementation Retro after EVERY sprint Whole team participation Time-boxed Create action items Formatted and Facilitated (Agile Retrospectives by Esther Derby and Diana Larsen) Erin Beierwaltes http://agile.conscires.com

20. How is your Retrospectivegoing? Do you have a clear agenda with timeboxes? Do you end with action items? Is everyone engaged and giving ideas? How often does the team follow through on the action items? http://agile.conscires.com/2011/03/10/agile-retrospectives-hey-scrummaster-wheres-your-agenda/ Erin Beierwaltes http://agile.conscires.com

21. Sprint Planning Basics Erin Beierwaltes http://agile.conscires.com

22. Select a Sprint Goal/Theme Product Owner presents User Story Team accepts or declines story after discussion with Product Owner (NOT a design session) Team creates tasks in hours Product Owner continues to present stories in priority order team capacity is reached Team makes final sprint commitment (Fist of Five) Sprint Planning Product Backlog Team Capacity Sprint Goal Current Product (tech debt) Sprint Backlog Velocity Sprint Commitment Retrospective Action Items

23. How is your Sprint Planning going? Are stories ready for consumption? Are you over-committing? Is the whole team engaged? Did you remember to include technical debt and retrospective action items? Erin Beierwaltes http://agile.conscires.com

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25. Upcoming Webinars April 12th Running a Retrospective April 30th Transitioning to Scrum Register at: http://agile.conscires.com/event-calendar/ Erin Beierwaltes http://agile.conscires.com

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