In this series of articles, we provide a deep dive of the 5 Scrum events: the Sprint, Sprint Planning, Daily Scrum, Sprint Review, and Sprint Retrospective. For each event, you’ll find a summary table describing the timebox, the purpose, the participants, and the expected outcome of the meeting. You can also download the whole PDF document (see link at the bottom).
Sprint
The Sprint sets the heartbeat for the whole Scrum team. It provides the cadence and structure for the team to follow. The Sprint is an iteration with a maximum duration of one month, and often teams choose a shorter timebox (most of the teams I work with use 2-week Sprints). The Sprint supports sustainable pace and allows the team to perform their work incrementally and iteratively. All the other Scrum events are contained within the Sprint.
A Sprint starts always on the same day of the week (or of the month) and every Sprint has the same duration. The Scrum team decides how long their Sprints should be (for example, 2 weeks) and then all Sprints have the same duration. Sprints cannot be shortened or extended just to fit the work in. They just end when the timebox is over, and a new Sprint is started immediately after the previous one.
The Scrum Framework
Learn more about the five Scrum Events:
Learn more about Refinement:
Download the PDF
You can download the PDF document, print it, or keep it handy for use with your team when your run the Scrum events.