Scrum is a great methodology and there is a great guide to scrum available. This guide should be read by every scrum master and product owner at least once a year. The guide is available at: https://scrumguides.org/docs/scrumguide/v2020/2020-Scrum-Guide-US.pdf
However – besides the general scrum knowledge and guide, as organizer (scrum master) of the scrum meetings, it’s useful to have a template or an agenda for the meetings that can be used in the outlook appointment (or others). Please find below some simple templates.
Daily Scrum/Daily Standup
- What have I done since the last scrum meeting (yesterday)?
- What will I do till the next meeting (tomorrow)?
- Are there any impediments (that prevent the stories getting done today)?
- Goal: Everyone is aware whats happening, impediments are clear and written down, new backlog items are created
more detailed daily scrum meeting template
Estimation meeting
- Product owner describes the backlog items
- Team gets information about the backlog items
- Team estimates the backlog items…
- …till the time is running out or the whole backlog is estimated
- Goal: Team has a better understanding of the backlog items, splitted them into smaller ones and estimated them, open questions are noted
more detailed estimation meeting template
Sprint planning 1
- Check capacity, absences, vacations … (should be prepared before the meeting!)
- Product owner presents his product vision to the team
- Team gets all information about the backlog items that they need
- Not estimated backlog items will be estimated
- Team estimates what can be done in that sprint and defines the sprint goal with the product owner
- Items will be selected and team commits to the sprint goal
- Goal: The next sprint is planned, vision/goal is clear and the team knows what to do
more detailed sprint planning 1 template
Sprint planning 2
- Tasks will be created by the members (and estimated)
- Consider: Documentation, Deployment, Coding, Testing, Code Review, learning phase (new technologies, …), Testsystems, …
- Discuss how to implement the tasks (architecture etc.)
- Split big tasks into smaller ones
- Commitment to the sprint goal
- Goal: Team knows how to implement the backlog items, how to solve the issues, …
more detailed sprint planning 2 template
Sprint review
- Product owner opens the meeting and remembers the team of the sprint goal
- Team presents the finalized backlog items (on a real system – no PowerPoint, screenshots etc.)
- Product owner and end users are allowed to test the functionality on their own
- Create new backlog items when:
- changes are required for a feature
- new ideas come up
- bugs are identified
- Goal: see a working solution, share the knowledge, check the backlog items (if it is what was expected), create new backlog items
more detailed sprint review template
Sprint retrospective
- What went well in this sprint?
- What was bad in this sprint?
- Are there any ideas? (for the next sprint, improvements, …)
- What happened in this sprint that could be improved?
- Goal: find improvements, identify team’s strengths and weaknesses, collect ideas