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A description of Scrum For Project Managers – some details




The product requirements of Scrum are typically chunked into a small set called a Story, or feature, with a short narrative description, somewhat like a use case or a test case. When you talk to people who are involved in Scrum, you will hear the word ‘Story’ many times. Let us go into more detail [...]



Planning to ensure that the Sprint Planning meetings work well as a part of the Scrum process – Part 2




In the previous post (Sprint Planning Meeting – Part 1), I talked about some of the points that people need to take care of during the Sprint Planning, including some of the responsibilities of the Product Owner, calculation of the total available capacity of the team for the Sprint, and then breaking down the user [...]



Planning to ensure that the Sprint Planning meetings work well as a part of the Scrum process – Part 1




The Sprint Planning Meeting is a critical component of the Scrum process, whereby the team takes a prioritized list of features, and then breaks down these features into tasks, estimates these tasks, assigns them, and forms a Sprint backlog such that the tasks are tracked through the duration of the Sprint. For this to happen, [...]



Participants in the Sprint Planning Meeting – An integral part of Scrum




We have described the Sprint Planning Meeting in earlier posts; a brief about this Sprint Planning Meeting: A meeting where all the Sprint team works through the Product Backlog and describes the features that need to be implemented in the current Sprint cycle. This post will work through more details in the Sprint Planning Meeting [...]