Set up in an hour, with results in your first sprint

Three steps to start

1. 3 minYour teamsType the names of your teams, one per line. Start with one or two curious teams.
2. 5 minYour peopleType their email addresses and choose their team and role. They get an invitation straight away. Rather use a spreadsheet? You can import one.
3. 10 minYour rhythmConnect each team’s calendar, or enter sprints and ceremonies yourself. The standard Scrum rhythm goes in with one click.

Without a Scrum Master, two more come with them: who leads when, and a first event the team leads itself, with Coretime guiding it.

When you have time

Useful, never in the way. Do them in any order; Coretime works without them too.

• Public holidays and leave, so the sprint capacity counts them
• Your tools: Jira or Azure DevOps, Slack or Microsoft Teams. For Teams there is one download for your IT admin, with three steps
• Team agreements: the working agreements, the Definition of Done and the Definition of Ready
• Sign-in for everyone with Microsoft Entra ID or Google Workspace
• Privacy and choices: read what Coretime records, and share it with your works council
• Verifying your organisation, in the easiest way you have

Adding people and teams

• A team’s page has a Members panel. There an organisation administrator invites people by email address, or adds someone already in Coretime, with a role.
• A new team takes a few clicks: under My teams, in Settings or at the bottom of the team menu.
• If you are on more than one team, you pick the team in the menu. Every screen then shows only that team.

What you need

• A few curious teams. Start small: others follow when they see it works.
• Someone with access to the teams’ calendars. No calendar? Then you enter sprints and ceremonies yourself.
• Optional: Jira or Azure DevOps, Slack or Microsoft Teams.
• A conversation with your works council; Coretime gives you the information you need for it.

How your first sprint goes

1. Day 1

   The teams rate their first ceremonies. Coretime sends the cards by itself, or you show a QR code at the end.

2. Halfway

   The first picture: which ceremonies go well, and which need attention. When the coach spots a pattern, it proposes two things to try.

3. The retro

   The board is ready with the sprint’s notes. Make a few actions with an owner, and you are on your way.