


Even the team can start to feel this imbalance. Hence, the need to explain the impact of not having his presence in the planning meeting and its impact on the entire team arises. In Scrum, each individual is important, it is like wheels of a truck, any wheel gets dealigned or malfunctioned, the complete vehicle suffers. Certainly, there is a need to understand the cause of this behavior and try to explain the importance of the planning meeting (Scrum ceremonies). The focus should be on the behavior rather than the individual, the Scrum Master should try to talk to the team member individually by asking open-ended questions to find out the reason for not attending the meeting. If there’s a member in your team who takes the meetings as useless, it’s time to know why he/she is adopting such a behavior. The scrum master can help the team in creating good user stories during the backlog refinement or sprint planning so that the team can pick them up for the commitment.įor a Scrum Master, it is important to understand the pulse of the team. Small - Can be done in a Sprint by the team.Estimable - Too big or too vague = not estimable.

Valuable - Provides value to the customer.Negotiable - Describes the functionality, can be negotiated between the Team and PO.In short, good user stories follow the INVEST principle. The team should be able to develop and test within the boundaries of the sprint along with providing the estimates. It should be a piece which can be delivered in a sprint and entails minimum dependencies. Once, the team is able to identify items that can add value from the pile of requirements, the Scrum Master can help them (Product Owner + Development Team) to convert them into good user stories (if it is not already).Ī good user story is one which includes a description and has acceptance criteria defined. As a Scrum Master, one of the responsibilities is to help the team pulling up the backlog for a sprint which is already prioritized and pulling items which are placed on the top (sorted as per the priority).
