Better Scrum — Patterns and Procedures to enhance a typical scrum process
Intro —How to improve your current sprint process to better enhance your team work experience and output.
Let’s take a minute and analyze this typical scrum process
1. Before any sprint the product owner and the team will meet for backlog sizing exercise and use story points to size respective sprint items
2. Step 2 will be sprint planning, where normally capacity planning will be used to plan the sprint and number of items we can normally bring into.
3. Design sessions are then organized accordingly with product Team and Development Team for the planned items
4. Daily scrums are part of the lifecycle of the sprint, which helps to monitor and take necessary actions
5. At the end of the sprint, a sprint review is organized to walkthrough what has been achieved and missed.
One major problem with the typical scrum process :
During the typical life cycle of a scrum, many factors can and will impact the sprint goal and in turn, either burnout your team members or decrease the quality of the sprint.
One solution is introduction of Better Scrum.