Daily Scrum Meeting before the Sprint Planning Meeting
Hello, so far I understand Scrum is a framework. So do we have to stick to all the meetings as written in the guide or is there room for adjustments? For examlple after having a Sprint Review and Retrospective on Friday, do we need a Daily Scrum Meeting before or after the Sprint Planning Meeting on Monday? Please share your thoughts, Thanks in advance :)
What would the purpose of holding a Daily Scrum between the Sprint Retrospective and the Sprint Planning be? Or holding a Daily Scrum immediately after the Sprint Planning?
In Scrum, the last event of the Sprint is the Sprint Retrospective. The first event of the Sprint is the Sprint Planning. Because Sprints happen one after the other, there should be only a very small gap between the end of the Sprint Retrospective and the beginning of the Sprint Planning. This should often be less than 1 working day, such as in cases where you may hold the Sprint Retrospective on a Friday afternoon and Sprint Planning on Monday and you may have a couple of working hours after the retrospective ends and/or before the planning begins.
In the window between the start of Sprint Review and the end of Sprint Planning, the team is not actively working on a Sprint Goal. They do not have a Sprint Backlog to adapt, a Sprint Goal to inspect progress toward, or any of the other elements that comprise a Daily Scrum. Even if your clock tells you that the team should have a Daily Scrum sometime in this window, it doesn't make sense to have it.
Following Sprint Planning is a little different. There is a Sprint Goal and a Sprint Backlog. However, the very first plan to achieve that goal was just made. There's likely no reason to stop work and inspect a minuscule amount of progress or adapt the Sprint Backlog that has barely started. The context switch away from whatever the Developers were doing to the Daily Scrum and back again would be more costly than the value obtained from the event itself.
after having a Sprint Review and Retrospective on Friday, do we need a Daily Scrum Meeting before or after the Sprint Planning Meeting on Monday
The next Sprint will start immediately after the Sprint Retrospective, and the Sprint Goal will be decided in Sprint Planning. So...at which point will the Developers need to come up with a plan -- for the next 24 hours -- to get them closer to that Sprint Goal? That's when to have a Daily Scrum.
When you are done with Sprint Review and Retro for the previous sprint, Why you want to have dailies before the sprint planning of next sprint ?. The team will start with the priority work discussed in the Sprint planning. if needed, they can align about the work they will start on day 1 in the Sprint planning itself.
Thank you very much for your feedback. It has given me greater confidence in discussing this topic wth my team :)