Who

Scrum Master

Developers

Visitors

Starting the sprint

 Scrum Master login to ScrumDesk before the Daily Scrum Meeting.

The first thing he must to do is to start the sprint. To start it display SideView/Sprint and press big red Start sprint button.

If sprint is started all  changes made to remaining and duration time, changes to stories state are tracked by ScrumDesk. ScrumDesk is using this information for automatic reports calculation, history tracking and etc.

Stand up meeting

During the sprint planning meeting team members agreed on a time and place where daily stand up meetings will be.

Every team member must update their status.

Task Board

Stand up meeting is made in front of Task board.

Task board displays stories in first left column. Following columns contains tasks distributed by state.

Task

New task can be created by click on button in yellow (ToDo) column when mouse is over it.

Task is presented by small task card. Task card displays the name of the task, remaining time and estimated total duration. Picture in the bottom left corner is task operator picture.  Click on button to delete the task,

To change the state of the task, just drag the task to given column of the task board. Statistics for the story and for columns will be updated immediately.

Double click on the card to display more task's details.

Burn Down chart

Team must be able to distinguish current status of the work. One way of how to visualize it is Burn Down chart.

Burn down chart displays remaining story points that must be developed to given dat.

Days of the sprint is displayed on the X axis. Y axis displays number of story points required to develop.

Ideal progress is represented by white dashed line.  The orange line displays actual progress.

If  orange line is above the white, progress is slower than expected. Orange line bellow the white indicates good progress.

The goal is to reach 0 story points at the end of the sprint.

Burn Up chart

Other way to display the sprint's progress is usage of the burn up chart. This chart displays story points developed to given day vs. total size of the effort to given day.

It is good to visualize changes of the sprint backlog size.

Quick Statistics

Overall statistics of the sprint is displayed in the SideView.

Resources

• Task board screencast
• SideView screencast
• Story Card screencast

Step 8 Sprint planning meeting

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