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The Forgotten Scrum Event

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What are the 5 events in Scrum? Chances are that you said something like “Sprint Planning, Daily Scrum, Sprint Review, Sprint Retrospective, and…. The Sprint is the most commonly overlooked event in Scrum. In fact, many people don’t even realize that it is an event in Scrum. Can you name them?

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The Rhythmic Dance of Agile with Cadence

MPUG

The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), US, notes in its web-archives that Odissi is two to three thousand years old. Now, you might be thinking what exactly a dance has to do with cadence in Agile? Let’s start first with the definition of cadence. Cadence – Definition and Basics. Working with Single Cadence.

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Scrum Events Reduce Meetings

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One of the first things that I usually hear after describing the Scrum framework and its five events to someone new to Scrum is, “that’s a lot of meetings!” . . Examining the five events, the first thing to point out is that the Sprint is not a meeting; it’s a container for all the other events. The Sprint. Sprint Planning.

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5  misconceptions about Scrum's Sprint Event

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The Sprint is one of the five events defined in the Scrum Guide. It is a container event, which means that it contains all other events, including Sprint Planning, the Daily Scrum, the Sprint Retrospective, and the Sprint Review. Or, imagine that your team is working in an environment with unstable technology.

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How Scrum event timeboxes make your team more effective

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Every Scrum event has a maximum allowable time period to carry it out, called a timebox. When I tell someone that the Sprint Planning event is timeboxed at eight hours, I usually receive shocked looks. While Scrum events have a maximum amount of time, they do not have a minimum amount of time. Scrum Event Timeboxes.

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“Agile Is Just for Software” and other Scrum Myths

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For example, Scrum includes five events: the Sprint, Sprint Planning, Daily Scrum, Sprint Review and the Sprint Retrospective. The Scrum guide clearly describes the purpose of each of these events, but the Scrum guide doesn’t include a required agenda for any of these events. It is deliberately incomplete.

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Sprint Anti-Patterns

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This article covers the three Scrum accountabilities (formerly roles) and addresses interferences of stakeholders and IT/line management with this crucial Scrum event. They are consistent, fixed-length events of one month or less, with new Sprints starting immediately after the previous one ends. And if so, what are the consequences?