Fundraising tech/FR-tech Meetings

The following are the most common meetings for FR-tech team members.

Retrospective and Sprint Planning
Attendees: Entire Scrum Team

Frequency: Every 2 weeks

Retrospective Agenda: Open discussion about what worked and what needs improvement

Length: 30 minutes

Sprint Planning Agenda:
 * 1) Check if anything in the last sprint needs to be resolved, totally re-prioritized or adjusted
 * 2) Product Owner introduced and goals and tasks for the next sprint
 * 3) As each task is discussed, the engineering team must agree to accept a task. When accepted, it moves into the "Current Sprint" column.
 * 4) Once the entire team agrees to a stopping point, the tasks are bulk added to the next sprint board.
 * 5) The team then moves to an etherpad to vote for a name for the new sprint. A name is chosen and an image is selected from commons.

Text in the invite of this meeting:

etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/fundraising_shrimp How to not hate phabricator during this meeting:
 * 1) Look at current sprint, make sure is up to date. Drop things if appropriate.
 * 2) Look at #fundraising-backlog
 * 3) David talks about goal for upcoming sprint and walks through new proposed items
 * 4) Team discusses items from top to bottom, pulls in the ones they want to commit to
 * 5) Batch edit "current sprint" column (open only) to new sprint
 * 6) Team moves tasks to appropriate status column
 * 7) Choose sprint name
 * 8) Total world domination.
 * 9) Profit
 * 1) Profit

Daily Stand Up (AKA "FR Tech daily autopsy")
Attendees: Entire Scrum Team

Frequency: Every weekday

Length: ~15 minutes

Agenda: Each team member covers the 3 questions in reverse order of arriving at meeting

note: the invite is for 30 minutes. We usually just chat about non-work stuff for the remainder of the meeting.
 * 1) Do you have any blockers?
 * 2) What are you going to do today?
 * 3) What did you do since we last met?

Backlog Grooming
Attendees: Entire Scrum Team

Frequency: Weekly

Length: 60 minutes

Retrospective Agenda: Prioritize and estimate upcoming work. This is time boxed and is a speedy meeting.

Text in the invite of this meeting:

Agenda: Prioritize and estimate upcoming work. This is time boxed and is a speedy meeting. We'll just see how far we get each meeting. 1.) Start with the next 3 sprints 2.) Address any other high priority tasks/topics (has a conversation made its way from email to task?) 3.) Attempt to zero out analysis column

Rules for estimating:
 * Estimate is not commitment
 * Estimates can change
 * Larger numbers indicate complexity and/or unknowns
 * Team member most familiar with code goes last

Cheat sheet for larger named sizes: Fundraising tech/Estimation Cheat Sheet https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1kVizqSO93Y8ZdewMU5gbLfBiKdy7a4zpLFRHKXV_Dh0/edit