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Day 6

Today was day six. I was able to work in the morning, but had to return in the afternoon to orientation. My day 7 will also be orientation. Day 8 will have an hour of department specific orientation, followed by scrum of scrums, and then our holiday party.

In the morning I started my personal Kanban on post its, and started evaluation of fields in use for our jira project. I hope to hide the unused fields to start, and add them back in as needed to make the process less intimidating for users.

After speaking with one of the other scrum masters (analyst) we decided my notes can go in jira.
I was hoping to take over scrum on Wednesday but it looks like that will need to wait until Thursday. First change is I am making it alphabetical as it seems silly to just have everyone trying to figure out who is next each day.

Brain dump below

I also need to synch up and go over the backlog with the current scrum master, schedule the next retro, and probably grooming and planning (kick off).

Next task is create a sprint template for myself as well I think.

For example
Make sure next sprint is ready in jira
Make sure scrum, planning, grooming, retro and demos are scheduled. Have agenda for each.
Close sprint on consistent date /time and before retro
Roll cards needed
Have next sprint ready at sprint close, should be groomed.
Also need to do
Daily report on hours, automate, introduce non project work
Work on celebrations
Velocity report
Time spent by project report
Allocation report
Planning/Kick off agenda
Review epics, stories (points), and tasks with hours (if template, otherwise create them and evaluate if should become templates)
Scrum agenda
Alphabetical by first name
What you did yesterday
What you plan to do today
Anything blocking you, waiting on, need help, etc
Goal 15 min or less
Should align with recorded time
Grooming agenda
Review new stories, add points
Review new epics, add stories
Consider making templates as applicable
Try to have, based on priority, next 2 sprints cards ready
Retro agenda
What went well
What needs improvement
Decide action items
Review prior action items
Note you want everyone to participate, sometimes people feel better if you do post its or index cards. Also for spread out teams http://www.funretrospectives.com is good, Google docs can work too
Demos agenda
Show off, or verbally task about work complete

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