Development & Testing with Agile: Team Meetings

IN THIS COURSE

• 1.  Course Overview
  1m 54s
  In this video, you’ll learn more about your instructor and this course. In this course, you’ll learn the various areas of Agile team meetings. You’ll learn everything from the basics of sprint planning to running and managing a virtual meeting and product backlog refinement sessions. You’ll learn Agile team meetings’ objectives, goals, and benefits. You’ll also learn how to document the minutes of meetings and learn the role of each member attending them. FREE ACCESS
• 2.  Fundamentals of Agile Team Meetings
  6m 59s
  In this video, you’ll learn more about the fundamentals of Agile team meetings. In Agile, team meetings are designed not to waste time. They drive much of the efficiency and self-improvement Agile teams are known for. Here, you’ll look at the role of team meetings in Agile and how they support the Agile process. Agile team meetings avoid wasted time by being based on well-articulated objectives. Each meeting is focused with a specific purpose. FREE ACCESS
• 3.  Sprint Planning Meetings
  5m 9s
  In this video, you’ll learn more about the sprint planning meeting. Every sprint starts with a sprint planning meeting. During this meeting, sprint goals are set and the team commits to the work they'll do during the sprint. The purpose of the sprint planning meeting is to define the scope of delivery for the sprint. That means which user stories of the product backlog will be committed to and completed during the sprint. FREE ACCESS
• 4.  Best Practices for an Effective Sprint
  7m 46s
  In this video, you’ll learn best practices for an effective spring. An effective sprint starts before the first line of code is written at the sprint planning meeting. The sprint planning meeting is about determining the scope of the sprint. This includes both the stories the team commits to completing and the overall goal of the sprint. The sprint planning meeting also determines how exactly the work is going to be accomplished. FREE ACCESS
• 5.  Stand-up Meetings
  6m 9s
  In this video, you’ll learn about stand-up meetings. In Agile, the stand-up meeting is key to keeping sprints moving forward. These are also called daily scrum meetings in Scrum and Kanban meetings in Kanban. They keep teams aligned with sprint goals and current situations and brings blockers to the forefront. During a stand-up meeting, participants stand to emphasize the need for the meeting to be brief. Stand-up meetings should be capped to 15 minutes. FREE ACCESS
• 6.  Running Stand-up Meetings
  7m 36s
  In this video, you’ll learn how to run stand-up meetings. Agile stand-up meetings offer many benefits. They align the team by putting everyone on the same page regularly throughout a sprint. They identify roadblocks that slow progress in the sprint. They're a time to address issues with the entire team so the path forward is understood by all. They build trust among the team as everyone is encouraged to be honest about progress and blockers. FREE ACCESS
• 7.  Sprint Review Meeting
  4m 11s
  In this video, you’ll learn about the Agile Sprint Review Meeting. This meeting is held at the end of a sprint. It provides an opportunity for the team to demonstrate their accomplishments to the customer and the stakeholders. It's also a time for the team to compare what they've accomplished against their plan for the sprint. Additionally, the product owner considers whether the acceptance criteria for each story have been met. FREE ACCESS
• 8.  Sprint Review Meeting Example
  5m 57s
  In this video, you’ll look at examples of Agile Sprint Review Meetings. Sprint reviews are a place for positive team-stakeholder interaction and celebrating team wins. You’ll learn best practices for fostering effective sprint reviews. You’ll look at specific examples of experiences that exemplify these best practices. One best practice for sprint reviews is to align progress and feedback with your goals. This allows teams to determine whether they’re on the right track. FREE ACCESS
• 9.  Documenting Meeting Minutes
  6m 18s
  In this video, you’ll learn to document meeting minutes. You’ll learn that meeting minutes are an important aspect of documentation for meetings. Meeting minutes help document key events and decisions in a meeting that might fade from memory. Meeting minutes help you get the most out of your meetings. Anyone who cannot make a meeting can read the minutes to find out what occurred.   FREE ACCESS
• 10.  Running a Virtual Meeting
  5m 9s
  In this video, you’ll learn best practices when running a virtual meeting in Zoom. You’ll also learn about some tools in Zoom that facilitate an effective meeting. You’ll see all of this via a Zoom test meeting, which you’ll learn how to launch. First, though, it’s important to note that you should always have an agenda when starting a virtual meeting. That agenda should be distributed before the meeting. FREE ACCESS
• 11.  Course Summary
  47s
  In this video, you’ll summarize what you’ve learned in the course. In this course, you examined the process of preparing and running an Agile team meeting for software development. You explored the fundamentals of Agile team meetings and sprint planning meetings. You also learned best practices for an effective sprint and for stand-up meetings. You explored sprint review meetings, learned how to document meeting minutes, and learned how to run a virtual meeting. FREE ACCESS