Lesson 12: Events overview
In this, and the following lessons, we will talk about the events in Scrum. Let’s start with a quick overview.
2020 update notes
A few things have changed in the latest version of the Scrum Guide (2020), and the ASF exam is updated based on those changes. However, our videos are not updated yet; so, please note the following changes:
- There’s no “development team” anymore, but only Developers.
- The recommended team size is now “10 people or less” for the whole Scrum Team.
- It’s now called “self-managing” instead of “self-organizing” (same concept, different name).
- There’s a Product Goal now, which is part of the Product Backlog, and sets the overall direction for the product.
- The Sprint Goal is now considered as part of the Sprint Backlog.
- The concept of commitments is introduced for the artifacts:
- Product Goal is the commitment for the Product Backlog.
- Sprint Goal is the commitment for the Sprint Backlog.
- Definition of Done is the commitment for the Increment.
- The Definition of Done is created by the whole Scrum Team now, and not only by the Developers.
- Now, any time you finish an item (based on the Definition of Done), a new Increment is formed. It’s not about having just one Increment at the end of the Sprint.
- The guide doesn’t suggest 10% as the ceiling for the amount of time Developers spend on Product Backlog refinement.
- Sprint Planning has three topics now:
- Why? -> Sprint Goal
- What? -> Items from the Product Backlog
- How? -> Tasks created by decomposing the items
- “Estimating” is now called “sizing”. So, it’s the responsibility of the Developers to size the Product Backlog items.
- “Value” is no longer one of the mandatory attributes of the Product Backlog items. The mandatory attributes are description, size, and order.
- Instead of calling the Increments “potentially releasable”, the new guide calls them “usable” (more or less the same concept).
- 00:04 – Welcome back.
- 00:07 – In the previous lessons, we talked about roles in Scrum, the three roles that we have, and a few things that we should remember.
- 00:14 – For example, we shouldn’t have extra titles.
- 00:17 – We don’t have testers, we have developers who are ex– who are expert in testing.
- 00:22 – And, for example, the fact that we shouldn’t have extra roles in Scrum.
- 00:27 – Now, in future lessons, we’re going to talk about the events.
- 00:31 – And these are the events that we have. You already have an idea of what they are about.
- 00:36 – Now, we will have a quick review again, once more, before I go through each of them in one of the future lessons.
- 00:44 – People involved in those events is important.
- 00:51 – For the Sprint Planning, we have the project team members, which are the three roles - the Product Owner, the Scrum Master, and the Developers.
- 00:59 – For the Sprint Retrospective, the same. We have all those three roles.
- 01:06 – The Sprint Review is different. As you can imagine, we also have the customer.
- 01:10 – It’s not only the team, it’s also the customer.
- 01:14 – And the Daily Scrum is very special.
- 01:17 – Daily Scrum, that’s something I just realized that I forgot to mention in the review, in the first review.
- 01:23 – Besides all those meetings, we also have daily meetings, 15-minute meetings where people get together and talk about the things that they have done and they’re going to do.
- 01:32 – That’s called Daily Scrum, and the important thing is that it’s only for the Development Team, not the other people.
- 01:40 – What it means is not that other people are not allowed to come to the meeting.
- 01:46 – Everyone can come to any of our meetings, as long as they don’t speak.
- 01:52 – They just attend, they don’t participate.
- 01:55 – Only the developers are supposed to be active in this meeting.
- 01:59 – Okay. For the durations.
- 02:02 – The Sprint Planning event is 8 hours if the whole Sprint is 1 month long, and if you have shorter Sprints, then it would be shorter proportionally.
- 02:17 – For example, if you have 2-week Sprints, then your Sprint Planning would be 4 hours, and all of these are timeboxed. Do you remember?
- 02:25 – You don’t expand them. So, if your Sprint Planning is timeboxed for 4 hours, it will always be maximum 4 hours, not even 1 minute longer, so to speak. Okay?
- 02:39 – So, that was the Sprint Planning, 8 hours in a 1-month Sprint.
- 02:43 – The Daily Scrum is always 15 minutes.
- 02:47 – It’s not that important to make it proportional, and then the Sprint Review is 4 hours in a 1-month Sprint and shorter proportionally; for example, 2 hours in a 2-week Sprint, and the Sprint Retrospective is 3 hours.
- 03:04 – It’s not so complicated, but you will still have some questions about it in your exam.
- 03:10 – As you remember, all of these are timeboxed, okay?
- 03:14 – That’s important. That’s why I’m repeating that, but there are two types of timeboxes here.
- 03:19 – One is the Sprint itself. It’s a fixed-duration timebox.
- 03:24 – So, for example, if we say that our Sprints are going to be 2 weeks long, then they will be always 2 weeks, not longer and not shorter, but for the other events that we have, the type of timebox, there is a maximum duration. It can be done faster.
- 03:49 – If you’re done with planning your Sprint, for example, instead of 8 hours, you’re done in 6 hours, that’s fine.
- 03:55 – You can finish your event. Okay? That’s one difference here.
- 04:00 – So, that was it about all events, and in the next lesson, I will start telling you about the Sprint itself.
- 04:09 – That’s also some type of event, almost, and then we will go through Sprint Planning, Daily Scrum, and so on.
- 04:16 – So, about the Sprint itself.
Next, we will talk about Sprints.
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