SCRUM

Scrum is an agile framework. This generally uses a sprint duration between 1 week to 4 weeks, also called as iteration time line. The key players in scrum are the Product owner, the scrum master and the development team. The development team is generally a group of individuals with a combination of generalists and specialists.

Scrum events

• Sprint - Time box for an increment (1 week to 4 weeks)

• Sprint Planning - This initiates the sprint. In this meeting dev team commits the stories to be delivered in the sprint.

• Daily Scrum - Daily standup meeting, where team shares the progress they made till date, plans for the day and blockers they are facing. A separate meeting will be held to discuss how to address the blockers.

• Sprint review - Once the development is completed, team will give demonstrate the work done to the PO and to the business users. This is to take the feedback on work done and to identify any gaps or additional work needed.

• Sprint Retrospective - This will takes place at the end of the sprint. This is not a blame game. This is to look back and celebrate the success and to identify the thing the team should improve.

Scrum Artifacts

• Product backlog - The overall requirements will be drafted as a set of user stories. Which will be refined, estimated by product owner with the help of business users and development team.

• Sprint Backlog - The set of stories committed by the development team during sprint planning meeting i.e.,  to deliver as an increment at the end of the sprint.

• Increment - The working software delivered by the development team at the end of the sprint.