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Daily Scrum

Each day during the sprint, a project status meeting occurs. This is called a daily scrum, or the daily standup. This meeting has specific guidelines:

• The meeting starts precisely on time.
• All are welcome, but normally only the core roles speak
• The meeting is timeboxed to 15 minutes
• The meeting should happen at the same location and same time every day

During the meeting, each team member answers three questions:^[9]

• What have you done since yesterday?
• What are you planning to do today?
• Do you have any problems that would prevent you from accomplishing your goal? (It is the role of the ScrumMaster to facilitate resolution of these impediments, although the resolution should occur outside the Daily Scrum itself to keep it under 15 minutes.)

Sprint Planning Meeting^[10][11]

At the beginning of the sprint cycle (every 7–30 days), a “Sprint Planning Meeting” is held.

• Select what work is to be done
• Prepare the Sprint Backlog that details the time it will take to do that work, with the entire team
• Identify and communicate how much of the work is likely to be done during the current sprint
• Eight hour time limit
  • (1st four hours) Product Owner + Team: dialog for prioritizing the Product Backlog
  • (2nd four hours) Team only: hashing out a plan for the Sprint, resulting in the Sprint Backlog

At the end of a sprint cycle, two meetings are held: the “Sprint Review Meeting” and the “Sprint Retrospective”

Sprint Review Meeting^[12]

• Review the work that was completed and not completed
• Present the completed work to the stakeholders (a.k.a. “the demo”)
• Incomplete work cannot be demonstrated
• Four hour time limit

Sprint Retrospective^[13]

• All team members reflect on the past sprint
• Make continuous process improvements
• Two main questions are asked in the sprint retrospective: What went well during the sprint? What could be improved in the next sprint?
• Three hour time limit

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