Just wanted to refresh on the types of meetings we do in company according to Scrum logic. So once again, it’s not something we’ve invented, it’s standard logic used by other respected teams as well.

Type 1: Daily Scrum

Each day during the sprint, a project status meeting occurs. This is called a “daily scrum”, or “the daily standup”. This meeting has specific guidelines:

• The meeting starts precisely on time.
• All are welcome, but only “pigs” may speak
• The meeting is timeboxed to 15 minutes
• The meeting should happen at the same location and same time every day

During the meeting, each team member answers three questions:

1. What have you done since yesterday?
2. What are you planning to do today?
3. Do you have any problems preventing you from accomplishing your goal? (It is the role of the ScrumMaster to facilitate resolution of these impediments. Typically this should occur outside the context of the Daily Scrum so that it may stay under 15 minutes.)

Type 2: Sprint Planning Meeting

At the beginning of the sprint cycle (every 7–30 days), a “Sprint Planning Meeting” is held.

• Select what work is to be done
• Prepare the Sprint Backlog that details the time it will take to do that work, with the entire team
• Identify and communicate how much of the work is likely to be done during the current sprint
• Eight hour limit
  • (1st four hours) Product Owner + Team: dialog for prioritizing the Product Backlog
  • (2nd four hours) Team only: hashing out a plan for the Sprint, resulting in the Sprint Backlog

At the end of a sprint cycle, two meetings are held: the “Sprint Review Meeting” and the “Sprint Retrospective”

Type 3: Sprint Review Meeting

• Review the work that was completed and not completed
• Present the completed work to the stakeholders (a.k.a. “the demo”)
• Incomplete work cannot be demonstrated
• Four hour time limit

Type 4: Sprint Retrospective

• All team members reflect on the past sprint
• Make continuous process improvements
• Two main questions are asked in the sprint retrospective: What went well during the sprint? What could be improved in the next sprint?
• Three hour time limit