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.

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.

Lesson 12: Events overview

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