Agile For Scrum Masters – Part 2

Agile Phases

Below are the steps followed in the Agile values and principles:

Initiate: In this phase, the initiation of the activities for the project is done. The teams aim to achieve a stakeholder consensus about the project objectives and get the funds necessary to develop the project.

Plan and Estimate: In this phase, planning and the estimation of tasks are done. The phase takes its inputs from the outputs of the previous phase, which include Prioritised Product Backlog, Done Criteria and Personas.

Implement: In this phase, the activities and tasks outlined in the Effort Estimated Task List are executed in a bid to create a working product of the project. The main inputs to this Agile phase include the Sprint Backlog and the Prioritised Product Backlog. The various project deliverables are created, Daily Standup Meetings conducted as well as backlog refinement, which involves the reviewing, fine-tuning and updating of the Product Backlog.

Review and Retrospective: In this phase, the work which has been done or the deliverables are reviewed during the sprint review meeting. This is done in a bid to ensure that the team has developed the right product, which means that there is a high chance of the customers accepting it. Ways which can help in the improvement of the project work are determined. The newly found ways will be used in the next sprint so as to ensure that a better product than the previous one is released to the customers.

Release: In this phase, the Accepted Deliverables are delivered to the customers, and the lessons which were learned during the project development are identified, documented and internalized. Of course, the organization needs to grow in terms of delivering quality products to their customers. This is why they have to determine what they have learned and then implement such lessons during the development of future projects as a show of improvement.

The difference in Agile’s phases is that they will all happen together throughout each sprint, to deliver a small part of the software and start working in the next part for the next sprint. After each sprint, the development team will plan the next job to be done, put back into the backlog any task that couldn’t be completed previously and apply any changes that may appear down the road.

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