Tuesday, September 11, 2012

Scrum tales - part 6

Finally managed to finish a Sprint and you're happy that all/most/some of the goals (PBIs) have been completed successfully? Check everything from the list below before saying that again:

1) Deliverable specified in the PBI has been actually delivered to the intended customer (internal or external) and the Product owner has seen this. I.e.:
   a) Product new build has been approved for production
   b) Enough new bugs have been found for a product build and testing summary has been sent
   c) Patch build has been sent to Support team
   d) All customers/leads have received intended emails

2) New or updated document required by the PBI has been reviewed by everyone with vested interest (future users of the document) and all have signed off on it; Product owner has also seen the document and has approved it

3) Content created as specified in the PBI has been reviewed by all higher level owners. I.e.:
   a) Release notes have been technically reviewed and approved by CTO and content rules-wise by Operations manager
   b) Article is signed off by copy-editor and by the Tech marketing team as usable for SEO

4) All feedback received back from the reviewers / Product owner for the deliverable (testing feedback, emails sent out, created document, etc.) has been incorporated in the work and resubmitted; Product owner had no further comments

If you answered Yes to all of the above, you can say with confidence that your Scrum team's Sprint goals have been successfully accomplished - congrats to your team for doing the right things right way

If there is at least one No answer and the Sprint is over, then the goal (PBI) is not done and must be specified as such in the Sprint review. How to fix this:

A) Move the unfinished PBI into the new Sprint; work with your team to add corresponding tasks to the goal to be able to answer positively to all of the above before successfully finishing the goal

B) Prevent the same situation from happening again by reviewing completed work with Product owner before the end of the next Sprint

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