Scrum activities
The source material covers common Scrum activities such as:
- Sprint planning
- Sprint
- Daily Scrum
- Sprint review
- Retrospective
Sprint
A sprint is a timeboxed iteration used to create a potentially releasable product increment.
The team selects work, performs it, reviews the result, and learns from the experience.
Daily Scrum
The Daily Scrum is a short synchronization activity for the development team.
The purpose is to coordinate work and create a plan for the near term — not to become a long status meeting for management.
Sprint Review
The team demonstrates completed work and gathers stakeholder feedback.
This creates an important feedback loop between delivery and customer needs.
Retrospective
The team reflects on how the work was performed and identifies improvements for the next cycle.
Product backlog
A product backlog is a prioritized collection of work needed for the product.
It changes as the team learns more.
Sprint backlog
The sprint backlog is the set of selected work for the current sprint, along with the plan for delivering it.
Definition of Done
The Definition of Done creates a shared understanding of when work is considered complete.
User stories
A user story describes desired functionality from a user's perspective.
Typical structure:
As a [user], I want [capability], so that [benefit].
Example:
As a returning customer, I want to pause my subscription so that I can temporarily stop deliveries without cancelling my account.
INVEST
The source material uses INVEST as a way to discuss effective user stories:
- Independent
- Negotiable
- Valuable
- Estimable
- Small
- Testable
Portfolio exercise
Create a fictional eCommerce backlog and show:
Epic → User Story → Acceptance Criteria → Sprint → Demo → Feedback → Updated backlog.