If you find these useful, please feel free to pattern your Sprint Events after them, or customize for your own use.
Sample Sprint Schedule
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List of Sprint Events
Here is a list of the sprint events with time, purpose, agenda, and outputs - suitable for using as meeting invites:
with details as noted in the Scrum Guide and based on a typical 2 week sprint.
name of team Sprint Planning Meeting
- Date/Time: the start of your sprint
- Length: 2-4 hours
- Invitees: The Scrum team and the Product Owner
- Purpose: To determine the work the team will accomplish in the next two weeks
- Agenda:
- What work will the team do? Negotiate with the Product Owner about the high priority items at the top of the Product Backlog.
- How will the team do the work? Break the accepted User Stories down into executable tasks.
- Determine sprint goal and any team improvements to be worked on.
- Output: A Sprint Backlog complete with tasks and a Sprint Goal
- Further details for The Sprint Planning Meeting
name of team Daily Scrum
- Date/Time: each day of the sprint
- Length: 15 minutes
- Invitees: The Scrum Team (and anyone else who wishes to observe)
- Purpose: To determine the plan for the day - how will the team accomplish today’s work?
- Agenda: Each team member may use the 3 questions to organize themselves for the next 24 hours,
- What did I do yesterday?
- What do I plan to do today?
- What obstacles prevent me from completing my work?
- Output: An updated Sprint Burndown chart showing work remaining to achieve the Sprint Goal
- Further details for the Daily Scrum
name of team Backlog Refinement Meeting
- Date/Time: mid-sprint - suggestion of 2nd Wednesday of Sprint
- Length: 1 hour
- Invitees: The Scrum team and Product Owner
- Purpose: To introduce the team to the next several iterations of User Stories
- Agenda:
- Product Owner to present new or updated User Stories
- Collaboration of team to get sufficient detail to bring Stories into Ready state
- Team to provide an estimate of effort for the Story - may use Planning Poker
- Output: A prioritized backlog of User Stories with estimates for the next 2-3 Sprints
- Further details for the Backlog Refinement Meeting which is informally mentioned in the Product Backlog description
name of team Sprint Review Meeting
- Date/Time: end of sprint (but before the Retrospective)
- Length: 2 hours
- Invitees: The Scrum team, Product Owner, any Stakeholders interested in the Product
- Purpose: To inspect the Product Increment and adjust the remaining Backlog
- Agenda:
- Business context - team and stakeholders collaborate regarding the current state of the market and the product being developed
- Sprint activity - team reviews the activity of the last two weeks, Sprint Backlog, progress, burndown, velocity, and quality
- Demonstration - the team demonstrates the increment of working software they have developed for the stakeholders
- Review - team and stakeholders make any needed adjustments to product, direction, process to meet the business needs
- Output: A Potentially Shippable Increment (PSI) of software and an adjusted Product Backlog - or roadmap
- Further details for the Sprint Review Meeting
name of team Retrospective Meeting
- Date/Time: end of sprint (after the Sprint Review)
- Length: 1.5 hours
- Invitees: The Scrum Team (possibly the PO, but not managers or other “authority figures”)
- Purpose: To review the past sprint and self-reflect, identifying successes to celebrate and issues to improve. Inspect and adapt!
- Agenda:
- Introduction
- Gather data
- Generate insight
- Decide what to do
- Wrap up
- Output: One or two kaizens or action items that will be applied in the next sprint
- Further details for the Retrospective Meeting