Sprint Planning Basics - Agile Coach (2019)
Sprint Planning: Key Insights
Overview of Sprint Planning
- Sprint Planning is a crucial ceremony aimed at enhancing execution, reducing surprises, and ensuring higher quality code.
- Typically, the process lasts about one hour for each week of iteration; for a two-week sprint, it may take around two hours.
- It is recommended to conduct Sprint Planning early in the week to maintain team flow without disruption from the weekend.
Introduction to Scrum Ceremonies
- Megan Cook, Group Product Manager for Jira Software at Atlassian, introduces the topic of Sprint Planning.
- The previous series covered what Scrum is and its benefits, including various ceremonies within the framework.
- This series will focus specifically on Sprint Planning as one of the key ceremonies that occurs at the start of a sprint.
Key Questions in Sprint Planning
- During Sprint Planning, three main roles come together: product owner, scrum master, and development team.
- They discuss two essential questions:
- What can we deliver during the upcoming sprint to achieve our goal?
- How will we deliver that work?