Document the responsibilities of squad leads

[nottrobin]

Some suggestions of such responsibilities:

• Explain the required elements that must be presented in the squad's Backlog spreadsheet
  • Tasks in the current iteration
  • Status of tasks
  • Points? Maybe not?
• Define the meetings before which the Backlog spreadsheet must be up-to-date:
  • The "end-of-iteration demos" meeting
  • The "management iteration planning" meeting
  • The "scrum of scrums" meeting
• Prepare (and email around?) a 1- or 2-paragraph summary of what the squad achieved in the last iteration. These paragraphs can then be included in the email / blog post that the design team put out about the completed iteration.
• The internal running of the squad, the planning meetings, management of tasks etc., is up to the individual squad lead. But also suggest some patterns:
  • Pre-planning and planning meeting
  • Retro meeting
  • ZenHub? GitHub projects? Whatever you like?
  • Suggested kanban board lanes
  • Suggested stand-up format
  • Using points and velocity?