Sprint Planning
Introduction
Sprint planning is at the heart of the Scrum process. This meeting of all product stakeholders establishes the development team’s commitment for the next increment. That is which functionality will be delivered at the end of the sprint.
Learning Outcomes
- Describe the Product Owner’s role in maintaining the Product Backlog for a project.
- Describe the flow of a Scrum sprint.
- Describe the milestones of a sprint board.
- Measure a team’s velocity from past experience.
Study Resources
For your study of this topic, use some of these resources. All four videos are assigned as a pre-class exercise; start there. The articles and blogs provide additional context. Use the Wikipedia articles for reference and deeper exploration.
Video Lessons
- LinkedIn.com: Using relative estimation (3m 2s)
- LinkedIn.com: Playing planning poker (3m 14s)
- LinkedIn.com: Calculating your velocity (3m 57s)
- LinkedIn.com: Planning your sprints (3m 7s)
Web Articles and Blogs
- The Scrum Guide™, by Ken Schwaber and Jeff Sutherland (PDF)
- Agile Alliance: Velocity