Hey everyone, I'm attending my first morning Scrum soon and I'm a little worried. I've studied Scrum and understand basically how it works, but never actually participated in the morning scrums. Any advice? Please??? :)
First Scrum – HELP
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Re: First Scrum – HELP
#2The key is to ensure every item on your board (hope you have a board) is actionable and deliverable by the end of your sprint. If a task is missing requirements or artifacts - move it back. If a task can not result it a fully tested and deployable piece of software - break it down.
And lastly, human beings suck at estimating time - base your first sprint on hours or timeframes and then move to a point based system.
Good luck
Re: First Scrum – HELP
#3You talk about what you did yesterday, and what you're going to do today. The meeting shouldn't take more than 15 minutes. Assuming you're going 'by the book'.
I came from a scrum team that consistently pushed the limits of a scrum meeting by talking about way too much and taking way too long. Thats a people and process issue though.
Re: First Scrum – HELP
#4The key is to ensure every item on your board (hope you have a board) is actionable and deliverable by the end of your sprint. If a task is missing requirements or artifacts - move it back. If a task can not result it a fully tested and deployable piece of software - break it down. And lastly, human beings suck at estimating time - base your first sprint on hours or timeframes and then move to a point based system. G…
I was assuming the OP was talking about the daily standup meeting?
Re: First Scrum – HELP
#5Hey thanks everyone for the advice. I was indeed referring to the Daily. It went good. I spoke for about 60 seconds, although the scrum lasted almost 30. It wasn't as intimidating as I thought!