Rohit Prabhakar

I build agentic revenue systems for Fortune 50 companies

SCRUM: All the different Meetings

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Sprint Planning Meeting

  • Planning must be done at the beginning of every sprint cycle.
  • Team selects items from the product backlog they can commit to completing
  • Sprint backlog is created by the entire team.
  • Tasks are identified and each is estimated (1-16 hours)
  • Collaboratively, not done alone by the ScrumMaster
  • An Eight hour limit applies to this meeting. During the 1st 4 hrs The Product owner and team prioritizes the product backlog and later only team plans the sprint and creates the Sprint Backlog.
  • Time limit: 8 hrs

Daily Scrum (Daily Standup) Meeting

Daily Scrum is more like a daily project status meeting which is very short and nothing other than the status can be discussed. The following are the key characteristics of Scrum.

  • Daily and starts precisely on time.
  • Daily Scrum must happen at same location and every working day at same time
  • Only Scrum Master and Team members can speak (anyone can join)
  • Not for problem solving (no discussions on reasons/approach etc.)
  • Everyone answers 3 questions and the Scrum Master documents this:
    • What have you done since yesterday?
    • What are you planning to do today?
    • Anything in the way (issues/concerns). The resolution cannot be discussed in the Scrum. It should be discussed after.
  • Time limit: 15-minutes

The Sprint Review Meeting

  • Outcome of the sprint is reviewed. What is completed and what is left.
  • A demo is provided of the completed work only.
  • Team and anyone from outside can participate (Open House)
  • Time limit: 4 hours.

Sprint Retrospective Meeting

  • This meeting is for identifying and implementing continuous process improvements
  • Two questions are asked:
    • What went well in the Sprint?
    • What could be improved in next Sprint?
  • The outcome is what to Start / Stop / Continue.
  • This is attended by team, ScrumMaster and Product Owner.
  • Time limit: 3 hrs
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Eclipse: How to fix OutOfMemoryExceptions or just for performance improvement.

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I would suggest the following changes to your eclipse environment. Please go to the eclipse shortcut and open the properties. In the Target just after the path to the .exe copy the machine specific arguments.


RECOMMENDED ARGUMENTS (you can play with the exact numbers based on your machine configuration)

RAM: 1GB

-vmargs -Xms512m -Xmx512m -XX:PermSize=128m -XX:MaxPermSize=128m

RAM 2 GB

-vmargs

SCRUM: What are the different Roles?

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Scrum has 3 type of roles

Product Owner

A Product Owner compiles all the changes planned for the product and prioritizes the possible functionalities. – “Scrum in five minutes” by SOFTHOUSE

  • Product Owner defines the features of the product and also sets the priority
  • Product Owner decides the release date and content of the product
  • Product Owner is

Scrum: An Introduction to this simple-powerful agile methodology

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Scrum is a simple agile development methodology through which we can manage complex projects. Scrum allows rapidly and repeated inspection of actual working product (at least once a month or twice) hence provides ability for the project to adapt to rapidly changing market and other complex external factors. The focus of the scrum methodology is to deliver the highest business value of the project in the shortest possible time.

The best part of Scrum for product development is the requirement to demonstrate a real working product every two weeks or once a month helps the management and team to take a calculated decision for the project and product’s future at a regular and a shorter interval. Hence scrum gives the ability to adjust with the competitive market and also to take go-or-no-go decision well in time hence saving lots of resources.

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Different people develop at different rates, a LEADER must understand this!

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If you are a leader of any kind you need to be best motivator. Keep a thumb rule in you mind, different people develop at different rates. The best motivators always lookout for the hidden capacities that are best to come. As a leader more than getting laurels the biggest role is to find the best in others and develop it.

If ever you selfish yourself asks you not to do this have a look at history and remember that the best in the world where low or poor performers sometime earlier in their life. Albert Einstein could only speak when he was four years old and read when he was seven. Isaac Newton did bad in school and so did Thomas Edison. Walt Disney was fired by the newspaper editor as he had “No good ideas”.

As a leader the primary role is to develop every team member to his/her best. Always remember “The Best is yet to Come”

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