# Scrum Master's Checklist

###### tags: `SCRUM` `ucommerce`

[ToC]

## Checklist

- [x] Schedule meetings for the entire sprint (4 meetings)
- [x] Create Clubhouse iteration
- [x] Create Clubhouse space
- [x] Ask for team member availability
- [x] Calculate next-sprint velocity and note on CH
- [x] [Sprint Planning](https://hackmd.io/x6d6cBy8QBW_oBCUzsciGA#Sprint-Planning)
- [x] Sprint planning summary to [e-mail]
- [x] [Backlog Refinement](https://hackmd.io/x6d6cBy8QBW_oBCUzsciGA#Backlog-Refinement)
- [ ] Schedule next sprint if known
- [x] Remind team of the demo at review
- [x] [Sprint Review](https://hackmd.io/x6d6cBy8QBW_oBCUzsciGA#Sprint-Review)
- [x] Prepare retrospective activities
- [x] [Sprint Retrospective](https://hackmd.io/x6d6cBy8QBW_oBCUzsciGA#Sprint-Review)

## Sprint Planning
**Duration:** 6 Hours Time-boxed (currently: 3hrs)
**Who:** Scrum Team (including shared resources)
**When:** First day of the sprint (9AM)

**Description:**
> Agenda:
> - What (two teams together)
> - What will be done in this sprint
> - We have to pick a set amount of items that we feel confident we can deliver at the end of the 3-week sprint.
> - Sprint goal
>
> - How (two teams separately)
> - How to get the selected work done
> - Come up with a plan on how to tackle the stories
> - Discuss possible complexities
> - Make sure everyone is clear about when each story is "DONE"
> - Anything that seems too big, or not technical enough can be broken down into smaller chunks.
>
>
> Outcomes:
> A Sprint goal and what will be completed.
> A plan on how the work will be done.
> A Sprint Backlog.

**Prep:**
- Ask team members for availability.
- Compare availability with last sprint and note down velocity.
- Make sure there's a remote way of joining.
- Make sure there's a room with office supplies available.

**Actions:**
- Create Clubhouse Space (Sprint Backlog)
- Compose and send sprint summary to [e-mail]

## Daily Scrum
**Duration:** 15 minutes time-boxed
**Who:** Scrum Team (including shared resources)
**When:** Every day 9:15 - 9:30

**Description:**
> Agenda:
> - Go through tasks in progress
> - Have a look at the burn-down chart
> - Any impediments/blockers?

**Prep:**
- Make sure there's a remote way to join.
- Prepare the board and burn-down for display.

## Backlog Refinement
**Duration:** 3 hours time-boxed
**Who:** Scrum Team (including shared resources)
**When:** After mid-point of the sprint

**Description:**
> Objective: Inspect and Adapt the Product Backlog and Backlog Items to ensure they are ready for the next Sprint Planning, taking into account the progress with the current sprint.
>
> Agenda:
> - PO presents the ordered backlog and identifies what they'd like in the next Sprint
> - Dev team can ask questions and request information
>
> Output:
> Better groomed backlog
> List of Backlog Items for clarification and a list of questions to be answered.

**Prep:**
- Set up remote way to join.
- Make sure there is a meeting room.

**Actions:**

## Sprint Review
**Duration:** 2 hours
**Who:** Scrum Team + everyone interested (open optional invitation)
**When:** Second-to-last or last day of the sprint.

**Description:**
> ❗ Open invitation ❗
> If you would like to see the progress on the product and have a chance to come with feedback or input for future features, feel free to join! This meeting is purposefully kept non-technical.
>
> Timebox: 2 hours
> Objective: Present the product increment and adapt the backlog based on the outcome.
>
> Agenda:
> - PO provides an overview of the Sprint Goal and the different items that were selected.
> - Demo of the product increment
> - Open discussion, capturing feedback and outside information that may help the Scrum Team.
> - PO adds appropriate feedback into the Backlog.

**Prep:**
- Make sure the open invitation is out
- Secure a meeting room
- Remote way to join
- Appoint demo presenter (Remind non-technical

## Sprint Retrospective

**Duration:** 2 hours
**Who:** Scrum Team
**When:** Last day of the sprint

**Description:**
> Objective: Inspect and Adapt processes and select items for improvement
>
> Agenda: We'll discuss things that:
> - Went so well we feel we must keep doing them
> - Went so badly that we must make it a priority to stop doing them
> and...
> - Any ideas that come up, that we should try out!
>
> This is regarding our process, not the product!
>

**Prep:**
- Meeting room
- Remote
- Prepare activities

**Actions:**
- Send out post-meeting summary
- See if any of the issues are something to be done something about