The sprint cycle includes multiple activities that are performed to manage development, which are often called scrum ceremonies. Those scrum ceremonies are as follows:
- Backlog grooming: Grooming is a time-box meeting in which the product owner, solution architect, and business connect to discuss backlog stories, prioritize them, and create a consensus for sprint deliverables.
- Sprint planning: In sprint planning, the Scrum Master facilitates groomed stories being assigned to the scrum team based on the team's capacity.
- Sprint Daily Standup: Daily Standup is a very efficient way of collaboration, where all team members meet in one place and all discuss their last day's workload, what plans they have for today, and whether they are facing any problems. This meeting is meant to be short and straightforward and around 15 minutes in length. Standup is the platform that the solution architect uses to collaborate with the development team.
- Sprint demonstration: During demonstrations, all stakeholders gather and review the team's work of what they have done in a sprint. Based on this, the stakeholder accepts and rejects the user stories. The solution architect makes sure that the functional and non-functional requirements have been met. During this meeting, teams collect feedback from the product owners and solution architect and look at what changes were made.
- Sprint retrospect: Retrospect is conducted at the end of each sprint cycle and is where the team inspects and adopts best practices. The team identifies things that went well and what they should continue to practice, as well as things that they can do better in the next sprint. Sprint retrospect helps the organization apply continuous improvement while working on their delivery.
