Importance of Daily Scrum Meeting
A Scrum meeting is usually held for Projects that are focusing on Agile Development or a company that is adopted for Scrum practices. Daily Scrum is a meeting that is held every working day, usually it scheduled in the morning and will last for maximum of 15 minutes. It is time-boxed to 15 minutes to keep the discussion short and to discuss only the important.
The Daily Scrum meeting is basically a status update. All the members of the team needs to participate in this meeting including the Product Owner, Scrum Master plus the team.
This meeting is beneficial for the following reasons:
- Building the trust between the team members
- Check the sprint is on track and to get to know whether there are road blocks or impediments to achieve the final sprint goal
- Getting the chance to speak and express your ideas in case someone is having impediments
- Helps you to plan ahead of your tasks.
In this meeting everyone needs answer the following questions:
- What tasks did you do yesterday?
- What tasks are you planning to do today?
- What are the impediments you are facing, if you have any?
This meeting improves the team work, and the individual commitment within the team.
Importance of Sprint Retrospective
The Sprint Retrospective is held at the end of the sprint, basically after the sprint review and before the start of the next Sprint Planning. This meeting can last for 2 or 3 hours depending on the number of team members and the complexity of the things that will be discussed. This meeting is scheduled by the Scrum Master and in some companies there will be one internal retrospective and the actual retrospective. In the Internal Retrospective, the Scrum Master and Team will join and discuss all what happened in the sprint in detail and find solutions to problems if there were any. However the Actual Retrospective will be held with the Product Owner, Scrum Master and Team and usually will be limited to discussing the important points.
During the Sprint Retrospective the team discusses the following:
What went well in the Sprint?
What didn't go well in the Sprint?
What can be improved?
What are the actions that will be taken to improve?
This meeting will help to improve the trust between the team, compliment each other for their hard work, Help out each other who was having impediments and to ensure that everybody is part of a team and no one is alone.
This meeting will improve the quality of the product as improvements are discussed and the actions are noted to be taken, and will be practiced from next Sprint on wards.
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