Sprint Lab - Week 3

SPD 2.1

Warren Buffett Priorities

10 mins

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• Tell the story in the article.
• Make a list of their 25 career goals (or could be 25 priorities in their life right now).
• Circle your top 5. Put priorities 6-25 into an “Avoid at All costs” list.

Breakout discussion: How did it feel to put items in the “Avoid at all costs list?” Do you think this focus would make you more productive or not?

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Read this Article.

Agenda

• Learning Outcomes
• Feedback on PRD
• Review Sprint Retrospective
• Conduct Sprint Retrospective & Planning

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Learning Outcomes

By the end of today, you should be able to…

1. Conduct a sprint retrospective with your team
1. Discuss what went well
2. Discuss what could be improved
3. Pick a sprint goal that each member of the team will help work towards

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Feedback on PRD

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Sharing PRD Feedback

20 min

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PRD Assignment & Example

• (10 min) Partner with someone from a different team and get feedback on your PRDs. Be able to answer the following questions:
1. Is the goal of the product clear?
2. Do the requirements make sense?
3. Is the PRD missing anything?
4. Is there anything that is not clear?
5. How can it be strengthened?
• (10 min) come back with your team and discuss your findings and changes you want to make

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1-minute Elevator Pitch (5)

Scenario: You’re in an elevator with your industry partner, and you have 1 minute to talk to them about the latest feature you built for them before they get off on their floor (it’s a big building)

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Break 10 mins

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Review: Sprint Retrospective

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Optional, but your group still needs to check in to show sprint planning board (Trello, GitHub project, etc)

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What are key components of a successful sprint retrospective?

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• What was done, what went well, didn’t go well, planned improvements
• Shout outs, shout out, shout outs
• Poker point planning - estimate difficulty for tasks together to assess scope of sprint

Key Components of Sprint Retrospective

• Making sure everyone gets a chance to speak 🗣️🙋‍♀️🙋‍♂️
• Establish rules for when people can/cannot talk
• Each person contributing at least one example of each of the following two items:
• What went well ✅
• What could be improved ❌
• Create a retrospective goal: what will you work on as a team to improve one of the “could be improved” items
• Giving praise for work well done, as well as respectful and constructive feedback (respectful = should feel comfortable telling anyone)
• No shouting matches ❌🤯🤬❌
• Be civil and thoughtful ✅😌🤔✅
• Don’t make it personal ❌😞❌

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What to Avoid in Sprint Retrospective

• Not being present
• Working/focusing on anything other than the retro
• Everyone’s laptops should be closed (with exception of the notetaker)
• Not paying attention → not showing respect for your team → dysfunction
• Arguments
• Disagreements or debates are ok
• Arguing/fighting/shouting is not ok
• Always be professional and respectful
• Practice empathy: put yourself in the other person’s shoes

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What are some risks of not running sprint retrospectives?

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TL;DR: Retros answer the following questions:

• What was happy? 😁
• What was crappy? 💩

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Sprint Retrospective Walkthrough

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Conduct Sprint Retrospective & Planning

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Sprint Retrospective & Planning

1. Grant access to your sprint planning board (kanban) and Sprint Planning doc to your class session leader
2. Conduct Sprint Retrospective (20 min)
3. Conduct Sprint Planning (30 min)

Use Sprint Planning & Retrospective Template: make.sc/sprint-template

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Top priority summary

5 min

Share with rest of class

• Your team’s top 3 priorities for this coming sprint

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Assignments Due

Do Sprint

Timelines and Dependencies quiz next Thursday

make.sc/spd2.1-syllabus

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