SCRUM meetings in practice.
Hello fellow Agile enthusiasts,
I have a question about the way Scrum Team meetings are arranged in practice.
The sequence is easy to remember and the purpose of the time-boxed events is clear. What I want to you to help me with is the way how these meetings are arranged within working organisation daily activity.
We plan our Sprint, then our Dev Team uses Daily Scrum meetings, then we gather for a Sprint Review meeting and this is where I need your help. When do we plan Retrospective meeting? Do we plan it the same day after a Review? Maybe the Next day? And when the next Sprint Planning meeting follows? Does it depend on the Sprint length?
Looking for your helpful replies.
Best regards,
Anton.
It can be beneficial to hold the Retrospective immmediately after the Review, as the Review can highlight items for consideration. For example, if the Review suggests a quality problem, or inadequate throughput, then these would be suitable topics for retrospective analysis, whereby the Definition of Done or team working practices could be revised.
After Sprint Review (sooner the better) and before next Sprint Planning. This way the areas of improvement identified can be incorporated in the next sprint.
Hi Ian!
I see, thus we use feedback from Sprint Review as an one of the inputs for our Retrospective meeting. And when the next Sprint Planning take place? I understand it goes after Sprint retrospective, but what is the best time interval between them?
Should Sprint Planning meeting, just like Daily Scrum, be held at the same time and place as the previous one?
Should Sprint Planning meeting, just like Daily Scrum, be held at the same time and place as the previous one?
All of the planned Scrum ceremonies should be held at the same time and place each sprint, in order to reduce complexity and avoid waste.
> And when the next Sprint Planning take place? I understand
> it goes after Sprint retrospective, but what is the best time
> interval between them?
Sprint Planning is the very first thing to happen in a Sprint.
What does the Scrum Guide have to say on the matter of any gap or interval between Sprints?
Anton, I have seen two approaches work well. Talk with the Scrum Team and choose an approach, then inspect and adapt.
1) Review, break, Retrospective, end of day, Planning first thing the next day.
2) Review, end day. Retrospective first thing the next day, break, Planning.
The Retrospective event marks the end of a Sprint and the Planning event is the first event. "A new Sprint starts immediately after the conclusion of the previous Sprint." This does not mean that the events need to occur in immediate succession. However the benefits and consequences of any time between them must be considered.
Thank you very much for your answers!
And also remember that Sprint Planning is part of Sprint Execution.. it is not 'outside' the sprint. It is the first event in the sprint itself.
Length of Sprint Planning meeting - Scrum Guide recommends time-box of 8 hrs meeting for 4-week long sprint.