Stand-ups, sprint planning, and retros

Lesson 2 of 3 in Tech Project Management — Scrum, Kanban & Stand-ups · 15 minutes

Realistic dialogues from Canadian agile teams — daily stand-up, sprint planning negotiation, and a retro with hard feedback.

What you'll learn

Speak fluently in stand-ups
Negotiate scope in sprint planning
Give and receive retro feedback professionally

From the transcript

Yuki (Scrum Master): Morning, everyone. Quick stand-up. Priya, you're up first.

Priya (Senior Dev): Yesterday I finished the OAuth refresh-token rotation — PR's open, two approvals so far. Today I'm picking up the rate-limiter ticket and pairing with Karim on the Redis config. No blockers.

Yuki: Great. Karim?

Karim (Mid Dev): Yesterday I was deep in the audit-log feature. Hit a snag with the schema migration — timestamps weren't UTC consistently. Spent half the day rewriting the migration. Today I'll wrap that up by lunch and then jump on Redis with Priya. One blocker — I need someone from data eng to confirm the audit-log retention policy. I've messaged Aisha but no reply yet.

Yuki: I'll ping…