What is Scrum?

The building blocks of Scrum are as follows:


  • Sprint - this is a time frame, e.g. 1 week to 4 weeks.
    • Sprint Planning - this is to be facilitated by the Scrum Master and attended by the Development Team and most importantly the Product Owner.
    • Daily Standup - this is to be facilitated by the Scrum Master and attended by the Development Team
      • What did you do yesterday
      • What are you going to do today 
      • Any impediments that hinder in achieving the sprint goals
    • Sprint Review - this is facilitated by the Scrum Master and attended by the Development Team, Product Owners and key stakeholders, held on the last day of the sprint.
    • Sprint Retrospective - this is facilitated by the Scrum Master and attended by the Development Team.
      • What went well
      • What did not go well
      • What needs to be improved upon
    • Backlog Grooming (Refinement) - this happens when spring is already in progress. Getting the product backlogs refined, adding more to the user stories and getting it ready to pull out as the next sprint backlog.
    • Product Increment - it is the output of a Sprint, it is ideally a shippable product of the whole solution that is being developed.
  • Scrum Roles
    • Product Owner
      • The product owner writes the features to be developed in simple words from the end user's perspective (User Stories) and prioritizes them
    • Scrum Master
      • The scrum master is there to remove any impediments that the team is facing and facilitate the different scrum ceremonies that need to be performed.
    • Development Team
      • It is a group of professionals who can deliver an incremental release at the end of the sprint, excludes the Scrum Master and Product Owner.

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