Confidential 04/09/2023 1

AGILE TOUR YEREVAN04, October, 2014

Sprint Retrospective and Backlog Refinement

Armine Amiryan

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Agenda

Sprint Retrospective Meeting

Backlog Refinement Meeting / Grooming

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Sprint Retrospective

Daily Scrum

Sprint Planning

Sprint Retrospective

Sprint Review

The last event in scrum circle –

empirical feedback

Sprint

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The Purpose

Sprint Retrospective is to:

Inspect how the last Sprint passed regarding people, relationships, processes, and tools

Identify what went well, and what can be improved

Create a plan for implementing the improvements

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Description

The Sprint Retrospective is time-boxed to 3-hours and is attended by:

the Scrum Team, the Scrum Master,  the Product Owner (optional)

intended to answer 2 fundamental questions: What went well during the last Sprint that we continue doing? What could we do differently to improve?

usually facilitated by the SM who is also taking notes.

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Process

Ideas on “how”: SM asks the team to share their ideas within a discussion, writes down

the results and shares with the team Team-members write down the improvements on the Sticky notes, stick

them on the board and group the ideas

What’s important Timeline approach – make it clear when the problem was noticed

during the Sprint (at the beginning, at the end, in the middle, etc.) Come up with an action plan

Sometimes they do: Safety Check

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Result

The meeting must end with a list of action items that have been agreed upon

and will be implemented.

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Sprint Retrospective Practice

What went well during the last Sprint that we continue doing? What could we do differently to improve?

Also What did we learn? What still puzzles us?

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Backlog Refinement

A K A Product Backlog Grooming Backlog Estimation Backlog Maintenance Story Time

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Participants: The Scrum Team

Product Owner Development Team Scrum Master

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Why & When

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Create INVEST PBIs

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The Refinement Process

Prioritizing by the PO Focus on top item (Epic) Estimation by the Dev Team Splitting the Epics to User

Stories Estimation of User Stories

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Purpose & Result

Estimation of efforts Clarification of requirements Decomposition of large PBIs into smaller ones Help the PO to get the top PBIs ready for next Sprint

Planning

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Questions

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Thank You!