Fundraising tech/FR-tech Meetings
The following are the most common meetings for FR-tech team members.
Retrospective and Sprint Planning
[edit]Attendees: Entire Scrum Team
Frequency: Every 2 weeks
Retrospective Agenda: Open discussion about what worked and what needs improvement
Length: 30 minutes
Sprint Planning Agenda:
- Check if anything in the last sprint needs to be resolved, totally re-prioritized or adjusted
- Product Owner introduced and goals and tasks for the next sprint
- As each task is discussed, the engineering team must agree to accept a task. When accepted, it moves into the "Current Sprint" column.
- Once the entire team agrees to a stopping point, the tasks are bulk added to the next sprint board.
- The team then moves to an etherpad to vote for a name for the new sprint. A name is chosen and an image is selected from commons.
Text in the invite of this meeting:
etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/fundraising_shrimp How to not hate phabricator during this meeting:
- Look at current sprint, make sure is up to date. Drop things if appropriate.
- Look at #fundraising-backlog
- David talks about goal for upcoming sprint and walks through new proposed items
- Team discusses items from top to bottom, pulls in the ones they want to commit to
- Batch edit "current sprint" column (open only) to new sprint
- Team moves tasks to appropriate status column
- Choose sprint name
- Total world domination.
- ??
- Profit
Daily Stand Up (AKA "FR Tech daily autopsy")
[edit]Attendees: Entire Scrum Team
Frequency: Every weekday
Length: ~15 minutes
Agenda: Each team member covers the 3 questions in reverse order of arriving at meeting
- Do you have any blockers?
- What are you going to do today?
- What did you do since we last met?
note: the invite is for 30 minutes. We usually just chat about non-work stuff for the remainder of the meeting.
Backlog Refinement
[edit]Attendees: Entire Scrum Team
Frequency: Weekly
Length: 60 minutes
Retrospective Agenda: Prioritize and estimate upcoming work. This is time boxed and is a speedy meeting.
Text in the invite of this meeting:
Agenda: Prioritize and estimate upcoming work. This is time boxed and is a speedy meeting. We'll just see how far we get each meeting.
1.) Start with the next 3 sprints
2.) Address any other high priority tasks/topics (has a conversation made its way from email to task?)
3.) Attempt to zero out analysis column
Rules for estimating:
- Estimate is not commitment
- Estimates can change
- Larger numbers indicate complexity and/or unknowns
- Team member most familiar with code goes last
Cheat sheet for larger named sizes:
Fundraising tech/Estimation Cheat Sheet https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1kVizqSO93Y8ZdewMU5gbLfBiKdy7a4zpLFRHKXV_Dh0/edit