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R1: Product Owner:

Overarching Organizational product success
Changes:
R2: Dev Team:
product delivery
Product

R3: ScrumMaster:
Product Backlog Refinement servant leader
A1: Product Backlog
(Product Owner)
Iterative & Incremental
Visual Progress
(Dev Team) E4: Retrospective Development scope

Traditional
methods:
scope
drives the
project budget
Product & Team A3: Potentially Releasable & schedule
Backlog Formation Product Increment
(Dev Team)
A2: Sprint Backlog & Goal
(Dev Team) cost time
Self Organized Teams
scope
E5: The Sprint
Agile
1 - 4 weeks methods:

scope is
driven by the
Sprint budget &
schedule

E1: SprintPlanning,
Topic I: “what” Increasing Visibility cost time
(what to deliver No changes!
this Sprint)
E1: Sprint Planning, The Manifesto For Agile Software Development:
Topic II: “how” “We are uncovering better ways of developing
E2: Daily Scrum E3: Sprint Review software by doing it and helping others do it.
(how to deliver it, under a
strong definition of “done”) Through this work we have come to value…**

Event Proportional Timebox¶ (2-week Sprint) Frequency Attendance

Product Backlog Refinement Undefined As needed before the next Sprint Product Owner,* and whoever can assist; Dev Team and ScrumMaster a plus

Sprint Planning, Topic I 2 hrs¶ At the start of the Sprint Scrum Team,* and other contributors who can assist

Sprint Planning, Topic II 2 hrs¶ At the start of the Sprint Scrum Team,* and other contributors who can assist

Daily Scrum 15 min. Daily during the Sprint Dev Team; SM may assist, all others are observers

Sprint Review 2 hrs At the end of the Sprint Scrum Team,* interested stakeholders (including technology stakeholders)

Retrospective 1.5 hrs, can vary At the end of the Sprint and/or after major events Scrum Team,* others as Scrum Team sees fit
* for Product Owner liaisons: whenever the Product Owner is present, the true client or user should also be invited
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¶ splitting Sprint Planning into two time-boxed discussions as well as the proportional timeboxes for a 2-week Sprint is a Winnow Management recommendation of Scrum Alliance, Inc.
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 The Agile Manifesto
...continued from front:
Individuals and interactions over processes and tools
Working software over comprehensive documentation
Customer collaboration over contract negotiation
Responding to change over following a plan
That is, while there is value in the items on the right, we value the items on
the left more.
We follow these principles:
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