Ceremony | Goals | Attendees | Schedule | Owner | Inputs | Outputs | Tips! |
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Iteration Planning (SCRUM) | - Check capacity
- Plan next iteration
- Review dependencies and risks
| - Agile team members (mandatory)
- Stakeholders if needed
| - At the beginning of every iteration
- 60' or more, as much as needed
| - PO for content
- SM for facilitation
| Next Iteration features and user stories understood and partially refined | Next Iteration features & user stories sized, refined and assigned
| Have your planning right after the weekend, to start with a fresh day |
Daily meeting (SCRUM/KANBAN) | - Synchronize with your peers on your work today
- Explain you've achieved yesterday
- Ask for help if needed
| - Agile team members (mandatory)
- SM or Kanban Facilitator
- PO for inputs (not mandatory)
- Others can attend if relevant
| | - SM or Kanban Facilitator for organization,
- Team members for content
- PO not mandatory
| Roundtable on what is moving forward and what is stopping the flow | Jira tickets | Keep it short |
Iteration Review (SCRUM) | - Review KPIs
- Review user stories delivered with live demo when possible
- Get feedback
| - Agile Dev Team members (mandatory)
- STK for feedback ( Product manager, fellow POs, SMs , business impact)
| - At the end of every iteration
- 30' max
| - SM for organization,
- Team members for content presentation,
- PO for delivery
| - KPIs update
- Demo
- User stories DONE
| - Feedbacks from STK for improvements
- Priorities changes if needed
| Make it interactive with a live demo! And on the last day of the week, so it has a flavor of completion. |
Iteration Retro (SCRUM/KANBAN) | - Improve way of working
- Take actions and give feedback to management if needed
| - Agile team members (mandatory)
| - At the end of the iteration (scrum would be sprint , kanban as set by the team)
- Advised: 45m
| - SM or Kanban Facilitator for organization,
- Team members for discussion
| Items well done, Improvements to do
| At least ONE concrete actions of improvement to implement next iteration into the backlog, with owners | Pushing the improvements into the backlog makes it really actionable |
Refinement (SCRUM/KANBAN) | The work to be done is presented and explained to team members by the PO and any subject matters experts that are relevant to present it | - Agile team members (mandatory)
- Subject Matter experts to help on each scope refinement
- In scrum : the PO is the one responsible for the backlog
- In Kanban : to discuss depending on the team's topology
- SM or Kanban Facilitator for organization
| | - In scrum : the PO is the one responsible for the backlog refinement meeting
- In Kanban : to discuss depending on the team's topology
- SM for facilitation if needed (not mandatory)
| - Work in the backlog which is not ready to be taken by the team
| - Work in the backlog which is ready to be taken by the team, aligned with the Definition of ready
| In Scrum , the more work you put into the refinement, the less time you spend during planning https://play.vidyard.com/tAbQ5rWUskj9FNHJ2dz4Ud
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