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CREATING EPICS
- Product will generate these with help of the business owner
- What are the must haves vs nice to haves
- Start thinking about these from a user perspective
- Validating the ideas are worth building for
- What is the success criteria
- Design / Tech input (eg. whether achievable)
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EPIC ESTIMATION
- Usually per quarter before defining your OKRs
- T-shirt size - XS S M L XL
- Can be tacked on to other meetings (eg. backlog grooming or sprint
planning)
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WHAT DO YOUR STORIES LOOK LIKE?
- Given when then syntax (as a user)
- Requirements based
- Light vs Heavy
- Whatever the format, your team needs to decide on it
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STORY CREATION SESSION
- Product / Rotating Devs
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/ UXD
- Take those epics and break them down
- Write down what you think will help
- Split between function or together
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STORY ESTIMATION
- Dev / Lead (no need for product)
- Go in with no context
- Write down assumptions
- Throw things back to product
- COMPLEXITY NOT TIME
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SPRINT PLANNING
- Product / All Devs
- You need to know who is working
- Figure out your velocity
- eg. point per dev day / median points per sprint
- Commitment
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RUNNING A SPRINT
- Goal
- Stand-ups (they can be remote)
- Blockers
- Async and open communication is better
- Write down things in the tickets you're working on
- Don't bring things in, support others to finish tasks first
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OTHER TICKET TYPES
- Bugs
- Spike
- Task
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WHAT HAPPENS WHEN THINGS GO WRONG?
- dropping stories
- re-estimating
- canceling sprints half way and starting anew
- P1s
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SHOWCASE (DEPO DEMO)
- be proud of what you've achieved
- work does not need to be client facing to be demo-able
- rotate who's demo-ing
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RETRO
- Go over last retros actions
- Went well / Didn't go well
- Ideas
- Cake (congrats, applause)
- Create and assign actions
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REPEAT!
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ROLLING THIS UP
- Points > Velocity > Projected throughput in a (sprint length) period
- Epic estimation (t-shirt) vs Epic actual points > Projected epic length
- epic x was medium and when delivered was y points
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THINGS YOU NEED TO DO
- Sprint length
- Story point scale / context (what's 0 / too complicated to point look
like?)
- How are you going to write your stories
- How will you measure velocity?
- Definition of done (merged? in production? passed experiment?)