Sprint Planning

Question 1

Before Sprint Planning

Answer 1

1. Refine BL w/ team
2. Collect team’s availability for the sprint
3. Create and distribute agenda

Question 2

What does SM do in Sp planning?

Answer 2

1. facilitates to make sure discussion is effective and there is agreement on sp goal
2. make sure items pulled into the Sp BL match the Sp goal and capacity
3. Document decisions
4. Follow up after to make sure team has what they need

Question 3

What does PO do in Sp planning?

Answer 3

PO– identify candidate BL items and priorities, proposes Sprint Goal

Question 4

What does team do in Sp planning?

Answer 4

Team– determines how man of BL items they forecast the can complete and determine how they will deliver those items

Question 5

What are the 2 parts of Sp planning

Answer 5

1. Scope
2. Plan

Question 6

What are some questions for the scope portion?

Answer 6

-What is the goal for this sprint?

-What PBL items are ready and add to Sp goal?

-Who is available this sprint?

-What is our capacity based on availability?

-Which items to include in Sp Bl based on goal and capacity?

-How confident does team feel that they’ll be able to meet the sprint goal?

Question 7

What happens in the plan section?

Answer 7

Team discusses in detail how they will deliver the BL items.

-Identifying tasks for the BL items
-Identifying dependencies b/w items
-Signing up for the BL items the team works on

Question 8

Value of this event

Answer 8

Allows team to start new sprint w/ shared understanding and approach to work

Work is effectively laid out and can be delivered faster

Reducing wasted time

Reducing bottlenecks if something isn’t ready or if plan doesn’t match capacity

Question 9

Common pitfalls

Answer 9

-Ineffective w/o properly refined PL (splitting stores, estimating, need better understanding of items). SOLUTION: consistent BL refinement process and agreed DOR. WITH HIGH TEAM ENGAGEMENT TO MAKE SURE A CROSS-FUNCTIONAL LENS IS BEING USED TO SEE ITEMS FROM ALL SIDES.

-No specific goal for the sprint and wind up w/ set of unrelated items for team to work on. Result= team completes sp worth of work but doesn’t feel like progress made. SOLUTION: set a specific, measurable goal.

Question 10

Sprint planning timebox formula

Answer 10

2 hours/ week of sprint