(7) Daily Standup


Once you’ve conducted a sprint planning session, the project sprint is active.  Start a Daily Standup (7) session from the ScrumFunction bar to change task status and log progress.

Depending on your corporate needs, you can run a Daily Standup with your team every day, weekly, or not at all.

You must run at least one Daily Standup before you can close the sprint using a Retrospective session.  You can also run a Retrospective and update your data on your own or as meetings with your team.

Start a Daily Standup

Start a Daily Standup

To begin, swipe from the top edge to display the App bars.

1.  If running a team meeting, activate any attending Teammates not using NextWave’s Agile Story Sizing Cards application.  Tap an individual’s ‘X’ or tap ‘Activate all Team members’.

Conducting a Daily Standup meeting with the Team can determine from each member:

  • What did you do yesterday?
  • What are you committing to do today?
  • Are there any impediments to you getting today’s work done?

2.  Tap ‘Start timing ritual’ to begin the session.

3.  Tap the screen center to close the App bars and display this sprint’s stories and tasks.

4.  Change the status of individual tasks, if applicable.

5.  Any note you make saves by sprint Day #.

Ready to end the session?  Swipe to re-open the App bars.  Note that new options appear in the App bars.  You can make sprint adjustments during the meeting as needed: add additional tasks from the Backlog or create new tasks.

Change Task Status in the Daily Standup

Change Task Status during the Daily Standup

6.  Tap ‘Stop timing ritual’ to end this Daily Standup and ‘Yes’ if your session is over.

Tip:  Use at any time:

7.  ‘Abandon this ritual!’ to delete all changes made during the session.

8.  Add an existing story and its tasks from the Backlog into this sprint.

9.  Create a new task and add it to this sprint.

The Daily Sprint History chart builds with every session held.  It shows you at a glance what type of work was completed and provides an overall sense of where the work is in the cycle.

 

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Conduct the Vote


The Scrum Master leads the discussion:  How big is this task?  When discussion is over, the Scrum Master leads the vote.  Everyone votes using the NextWave Story Sizing Cards application on their devices or an Agile planning poker card deck.

NOTE:  Use Charms > Settings > Agile Sizing Cards to change card style type (T-Shirt, Fibonacci, Classic Numbering, or Man-hours sizing), card cover image, and color at any time.  Team members using Agile Story Sizing Cards have similar menus on their tablet or phone application.

ScrumMaster and Agile Story Sizing Cards in Action

Manage an active sprint planning session vote using the ScrumMaster™ application.

 

1. What’s your vote?  Tap to select a story size card.

2. Double-tap the card to make your selection and hide your vote.

3. Wait until the entire team is ready to reveal their votes.  Tap the card back to reveal your choice.

4. ScrumMaster will display individual team member votes to the right of your vote, on your screen.  Tap to add the vote value of any card deck voters.  NextWave’s Agile Story Sizing Cards™ application votes display automatically.

5. Votes are averaged and the result displays.  However, you can use the slider to change the value to accept, if desired.

6. Are you ready to accept this agreed upon value?  Or, do you need more discussion and another vote?  Tap your card to continue.

 

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Select Tasks to Vote


Which stories and tasks are part of the vote for this session?

Select the stories and tasks you want to define this sprint.  Establish Story Point Values by yourself, or, discuss and vote on each task with your team during a Sprint Planning meeting.

Identify tasks to vote on
(establish story point values)

Note the current ‘Target Velocity’ displays at the top.  It can be changed here from the original project setting, as needed.  As you conduct the session, the gauge displays voting results as percent (%) of Target Velocity.  Of course, you determine when to call sprint planning ‘done’ and end the session.

Identify Tasks to Vote

Identify tasks to vote on (establish story point values)

3. Press to activate a story and drag it over to the voting area.  All of its tasks display.

4. Ready to vote on a task?  Press the boxes icon to start the vote for that task.

Need to edit the task?  Double-tap on its description.  Make your changes and tap ‘Update’.

 

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Start a Sprint Planning Session


To start the session, swipe from an edge to display the App bar.

Start Your ScrumMaster Agile sprint planning session

Start Your ScrumMaster Agile sprint planning session.

1. Activate meeting participants. Swipe or scroll through your Team and tap ‘X’ to activate individuals. Or, tap ‘Activate all users’.

ScrumMaster automatically sees Team members running NextWave’s free application for voting: Agile Story Sizing Cards™.

If needed, you can check ‘Connectivity status’ from the Team ScrumFunction screen. Also, Team members running the NextWave Agile Story Sizing Cards application can connect to you by selecting their app’s Charms > Settings > Network, and then adding your specific Scrum Master’s device name.

2. Tap ‘Start timing ritual’ to begin the planning session.

 

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Begin a Sprint


Tap ScrumFunction ‘Sprint Planning’ (6) to run Sprint Planning. Whether you do this step on your own or in a meeting, here is where you define a sprint’s workload.  Specific tasks that will be worked this sprint are identified and a story point value is assigned for each.

When you started the project, you defined KEY sprint variables in the profile: Target Velocity, sprint length, when a task is ‘done’, and average cost per team member. You can change these settings at any time (edit the project from the home page). An overview of the process looks like this…

ScrumMaster™  Sprint Planning Meeting

Get ready to assign story points, with or without a team meeting.

 

Identify Tasks to Vote

Identify tasks to vote on (establish story point values)

 

ScrumMaster and Agile Story Sizing Cards in Action

Manage an active sprint planning session vote using the ScrumMaster™ application.

 

Close Agile Sprint Session Vote

Accept each task vote, and when ready, close the Sprint Planning session.

ScrumMaster dynamically tallies team member votes to establish the ‘Agreed upon Story Point Value’ for each task in the sprint, whether you manually enter an individual’s vote or they use Agile Story Sizing Cards™.  It also automatically tracks meeting time and cost, based on number of meeting participants whose work contributes to backlog burndown and meeting time (minimum 1 Story Point Value).

 

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