Scrum Ceremony: Daily Stand-up/Daily Scrum

The Daily Scrum meeting is a short, time-boxed meeting (generally 15 minutes) for the team members to communicate their work statuses and their plans for the next 24 hours to the rest of the team. This is done by inspecting the work completed since the last Daily Stand-up Meeting and forecasting the work that could be done before the next one.

One by one, each member of the team reports three (and only three) things to the other members of the team:

1. What did I complete yesterday?

2. What will I complete today?

3. Am I facing any impediments?

The Scrum Master helps team members resolve issues or impediments. The Scrum Master is only a facilitator. The Scrum Master does not run the meeting. The Daily Stand-up Meeting is a forum for information exchange only. Any discussion or issue resolution, if required, takes place after the meeting.

Scrum Ceremony: Sprint Review Meeting

·          At the end of the Sprint, a Sprint Review Meeting is held to review the work completed during the Sprint.

·         The purpose of the Sprint review is for the team to present the Product Owner with the end-deliverable of the Sprint.

·         This is done to demonstrate and validate that the deliverable is done (according to the defined acceptance criteria).

·         It also helps the team get feedback from stakeholders.

·         The outcome of the Sprint review is either the acceptance or rejection of done backlog items by the Product Owner.

·         Items not accepted remain in the Product Backlog.

·         It is the responsibility of the Scrum Master to ensure that the Product Owner does not change requirements or acceptance criteria during the Sprint review and reject a done backlog item because it does not meet the changed requirements. If the requirements have changed, a Product Backlog item needs to be created to address the changed requirements in a future Sprint.

·         Only the product functionalities that adhere to the definition of done can be presented, and WIP functionalities are included in a future Sprint. Team members present the work completed during the Sprint, answer stakeholder questions, and note their suggested changes.