Scrum Overhead Planning
How much time should a team devote and managers allocate to sprint overhead? That is, activities related to the scrum processes itself. Other than the time spent on development, producing deliverable, time must be spent on sprint planning, sprint review, sprint retrospective, backlog grooming, and daily scrums. The chart below summarizes:
| Activity | Participants | Time/Month |
| Sprint Planning | Full Scrum Team | 4-8 hours |
| Sprint Review | Full Scrum Team (+optional invitees) | 4 hrs |
| Sprint Retrospective | Full Scrum Team | 3 hrs |
| Daily Scrum | Dev Team (+ optionally the Scrum Master and Product Owner) | 15 min/day=~4 hrs/month |
| Backlog grooming | Scrum Team (+stakeholders) | 2 days/month (Dev team commitment) |
| Total | ~4.5 days/month |
