Should scrum allow additional meetings

Ramakrishnan,

It is always risky to rely on 3rd party Scrum Master assessment tests.

That said, what meetings did it call for? Who were the attendees? Was there an explanation of the answer, besides "whatever is needed to meet the Sprint Goal"?

Keep in mind, Scrum does not explicitly disallow meetings outside of the prescribed Scrum events. The Scrum ceremonies should be sufficient. If additional meetings are needed in the sprint, that is a good topic for discussion during the team retrospective: "Why did we need these additional meetings?"

Posted By Ramakrishnan Subramanian on 22 Mar 2016 07:10 AM
Hello,

My understanding was Scrum does not allow any additional meetings or events not defined within scrum.

However in the quiz below in learning mode, it is recommended to have additional meetings if it helps to achieve the sprint goal.

http://mlapshin.com/index.php/psm-quiz/learning-mode/

I would like to understand what i am missing here in terms of my grasp of the rule here.

Regards
RS

Scrum allows additional meetings outside of scrum.

The prescribed events in Scrum are there to minimize the extra meetings not defined in Scrum.

Thank you Timothy and Jemer. I think i am getting the spirit of the answers, there is no explicit prohibition of additional meetings, but it's good to retrospect why are these required in addition to events.

One of the things our Scrum teacher taught us over the course of the two day class was the "Do What Makes Sense" loosely noted in the Scrum Guide. The way I look at this from a development team perspective are knowledge transfer sessions. Typically one or two developers may know a bit more about a specialized topic. I wouldn't necessarily classify that as a meeting, but it could require a group to block off a period of time on their calendars. It facilitates the completion of a task/sprint item/product backlog item in order to keep the sprint moving forward.

you mean : "Individuals and interactions over processes and Tools" :-)
+1