Scrum and Sprint Planning

#Scrum:

Scrum team contains Agile Scrum Master, Product Manager(Owner), Developer, Designer, and other team members from different teams.

We already understood that Scrum is widely accepted by the organization to estimate and utilize the resources in Project Management.

Project Management is often used by the Product Manager for efficient utilization and better optimizations of the resources.

Scrum Projects are planned at multiple levels and called as planning onion because the complete layer is like an onion.

The outermost layer is the Strategy layer and the innermost layer is the day activity layer.

It has 6 layers.

1. Strategy(Outermost layer)

2. Portfolio

3. Product

4. Release

5. Sprint

6. Day

Strategy:

Nowadays, the strategy is a key factor that actually enhances any process. The Executives make and decide the strategic guide based on the Product Vision.

The executive leadership defines and executes the strategic goals and passes on to the next chain.

Portfolio:

The overall product offerings that will best implement the vision are established in this segment by the Portfolio handler.

Product:

Each scrum team sets a Product Vision and draw the Product roadmap for their various projects. Its duration varies from 6-12 months.

Release:

The Scrum Team groups the product backlog items into smaller releases that drive towards the Product Vision. The Time Box Period for release is typically between 3-9 months.

It also differs from organizations to organizations.

Sprint:

Sprint is the Time Boxed period to complete a set amount of work. Usually, a set amount of work determines the number of User Stories be completed in that sprint.

Sprint is the heart for the Scrum and Agile Methodologies and if Sprint is right then the Agile Scrum team(And Product Owner) ship the Product on time.

Daily:

Most Granular Level of Scrum Planning. The scrum team meets every day for a status update and make a plan of action for the next 24 hours.

#Sprint and Sprint Planning

Let's understand this as if Sprint is for 2-4 weeks then it has some action plan:

1. Sprint Planning: 2 hours of each week of Sprint.

2. Daily Scrum: 15 minutes

3. Sprint Reviews: 1 hour for each week of the sprint

4. Sprint Retrospective: 45 minutes for each week of the sprint

Sprint planning would draw the required course of action and how to achieve this.

Daily Scrum would coordinate within each team that everyone is on the same page and it allows us to remove the obstacles.

Sprint reviews would seek a demo of what is finished and what is not.

Sprint Retrospective is the last stage which covers 3 points:

1. What went well in this Sprint.

2. What did not go well in this Sprint.

3. What changes are required so that the next sprint would become better.

This would give you a basic understanding of Agile Scrum and Sprint Planning.