Conducting ceremonies and meetings

Predictability is a general delivery challenge that agile frameworks such as scrum seek to address. The cadence of sprints makes events such as planning and retrospectives predictable, and synchronization allows multiple perspectives to be explored and integrated concurrently. The key events that drive cadence and synchronization are known as ceremonies and they are integral to success as an agile team.

Jira Align provides tools to facilitate and conduct interactive meetings remotely. Simply go to the navigation menu and select Team | Team Meetings to open the Jira Align meetings workspace:

Figure 4.10 – Jira Align meetings

Here you can manage team meetings and launch retrospectives and estimation games. Once you set your program and program increment in the configuration bar, there are two meeting views available:

• List: Displays all team-level sprint meetings on a timeline. You can filter the list...