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Our Scrum Scenario:

We have two Sprint Planning Meetings (Part 1 and Part 2).

  • Part 1: What should be done during the Sprint?
  • Part 2: How should these things be done?

I guess there are some differences in how this is handled. This is according to Boris Gloger's German book. In practice these things can be done on the same day or even during the same meeting.

Team Size:

  • Developer: 3
  • All of them have their strengths either in Backend or Frontend development
  • We would like to get all familiar with all the technologies used in the project. We do not like to have private kingdoms but have a constant discussion about how things can be done.

At which point in time should Tasks be assigned? Within the Scrum Process: Sprint Planning 1, 2, [...] Review Meeting, Retrospective Meeting, etc.?

Who is responsible for the assigning tasks? The Product Owner, the Scrum Master, the developers?

Thomas Owens
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At the beginning of your sprint you should have a sprint planning meeting. This is where your team decides which user stories to deliver that sprint. At the end of the meeting you should have a reasonable and prioritized sprint backlog.

Your developers should then pick tasks from the top of the backlog. When they finish their current task they return to the backlog and pick then next available task. Again from the top.

Nobody needs to be assigned anything.

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At which point to the tasks get assigned?

Product backlog items are added to the sprint backlog by sprint team members during the sprint planning meeting, in order of priority (which is determined by the Product Owner)

What does that actually mean for the sprint 1 and 2 planning? (i.e. the what to do and how to do it topics of sprint planning)

The above applies to the first topic, "what to do".

Does that mean that we can start without task assignment and every developer starts on one end and then assigns a new tasks to himself when he finished the first one?

After the sprint backlog has been decided on, yes ...sprint team members complete an item and then pick another one from the top of the sprint backlog. (note: not out of the product backlog)

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