Scrum Meetings

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Scrum prescribes four regular meetings to inspect and adapt the product, process, and progress: Sprint planning, Daily Scrum, Sprint Review, and Sprint Retrospective. Sprint Planning is intended to plan the Sprint, and the Sprint Goal, and how it will be achieved. Daily Scrum is a 15-minute meetin…

Guide on Scrum Meetings: PSM I Concepts

Scrum Meetings are integral to the Scrum Framework, providing the foundation for communication, collaboration, and iterative progress towards a well-defined goal.

Why it is important:
- They set the stage for communication between team members.
- They help to keep everyone on the same page, progress is tracked, and issues are openly discussed.
- They foster a culture of collective responsibility and accountability.

What it is:
- Scrum Meetings refer to the regular meetings held during a sprint in Scrum methodology. It includes Sprint Planning, Daily Scrum, Sprint Review and Sprint Retrospective.

How it works:
- Sprint Planning: The team decides the work to be completed in the coming sprint.
- Daily Scrum: The daily meeting where team members update each other on what was done the previous day, plans for the current day, and any obstacles encountered.
- Sprint Review: The team reviews the work that was completed and the work that was not completed in the Sprint.
- Sprint Retrospective: Occurs after the Sprint Review, an opportunity for the team to inspect itself and create a plan for improvements to be enacted during the next sprint.

Exam Tips: Answering Questions on Scrum Meetings
- Understand the purpose of each scrum meeting and who attends each meeting.
- Be familiar with the inputs and outputs of all scrum meetings.
- Know what happens if a Scrum meeting is skipped.
- Be aware of the time boxes for each Scrum meeting (for instance, daily Scrum should be timeboxed to 15 minutes).
- Remember that changes to sprint scope are not part of the daily scrum.

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PSM I - Scrum Meetings Example Questions

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Question 1

In the Sprint Planning Meeting, the Product Owner insists on a particular solution for a feature, which the Development Team believes is not the best approach. As a Scrum Master, how should you resolve this?

Encourage a solution discovery session where the Development Team can demonstrate the technical implications and allow for a mutual understanding to emerge. Advocate for a technical review session where external experts validate the Product Owner’s solution, ensuring it aligns with current industry standards. Arrange a Sprint Review meeting ahead of time to seek feedback from stakeholders on the proposed solution by the Product Owner. Recommend organizing a team building activity to improve overall team dynamics and indirectly solve the disagreement through enhanced communication.

Correct Answer: Encourage a solution discovery session where the Development Team can demonstrate the technical implications and allow for a mutual understanding to emerge.

The correct answer promotes collaboration and understanding between the Product Owner and the Development Team without undermining either party's perspective. Encouraging a solution discovery session ensures both the technical feasibility and the business value are considered, fostering a shared decision-making process. The wrong answers, while incorporating elements of Scrum ceremonies and practices, either misalign the purpose of those ceremonies (such as using a Sprint Review for internal conflict resolution) or suggest actions (like team building activities) that do not directly address the issue of resolving a disagreement on a solution approach.

Question 2

The Product Owner continually arrives late to the Daily Scrum, which is interrupting the flow of the meeting and stagnating progress. As the Scrum Master, what can you do to address this?

Implement a policy of documenting every instance of lateness and reviewing it during the Sprint Retrospective Suggest the Development Team to proceed with the Daily Scrum without the Product Owner and only update them via email on what was discussed Adjust the timing of the Daily Scrum to accommodate the Product Owner’s schedule without consulting the Development Team Discuss the issue privately with the Product Owner to understand any underlying problems and highlight the impact of their lateness

Correct Answer: Discuss the issue privately with the Product Owner to understand any underlying problems and highlight the impact of their lateness

In resolving issues regarding the Product Owner's participation, it is crucial to directly address the problem while respecting the Scrum roles, values, and principles. The correct answer involves a direct, respectful conversation to understand and solve the issue of lateness, in line with Scrum's value of respect and commitment. Adjusting the Daily Scrum time without team consensus fails to respect the self-organizing principle of the Development Team. Documenting instances of lateness for the Spring Retrospective might create an unnecessary focus on blame rather than solutions, misaligning with the value of respect and openness. Finally, suggesting the Development Team proceed without the Product Owner undermines the collaborative aspect of Scrum and the Product Owner’s role in providing clarity and understanding of the product backlog items.

Question 3

During a Sprint Planning Meeting, the team is unable to reach a consensus on the Sprint Goal and is wasting significant time. As the Scrum Master, how should you address this issue?

Instruct the team to use a time-boxed brainstorming session to list potential Sprint Goals, then use a dot voting method to select the most popular option. While this process seems democratic and engaging, it might lead to selecting objectives that are not aligned with the Product Goal or highest value deliverables, potentially undermining the purposeful direction a Sprint should have. Suggest that the team skips the Sprint Goal for this Sprint and focuses on completing any selected items from the Product Backlog. Direct the team to break down the backlog items into smaller tasks for easier agreement, bypassing the need for a unified Sprint Goal. Encourage the team to explore the highest priority items and how they might deliver value, leading to a mutually agreeable Sprint Goal.

Correct Answer: Encourage the team to explore the highest priority items and how they might deliver value, leading to a mutually agreeable Sprint Goal.

The Scrum Master's role during the Sprint Planning is to ensure that the team has a clear, common understanding of the objectives for the coming Sprint and how these objectives will be achieved, leading to the formulation of the Sprint Goal. The Scrum Master facilitates this by encouraging discussion on priorities and value delivery among the team, with input from the Product Owner on the importance of backlog items. Directing the team to break down tasks, skipping the Sprint Goal, or selecting it through a voting mechanism might lead to directionless Sprints and decreased team alignment, which contradicts Scrum values and principles.

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