Optimizing Your Sprint Planning (1 day)

Audience: Scrum masters, Scrum team members. Learn to improve your Sprint planning meetings with each new Sprint.

Class size: 12 to 24
Prerequisites: none

Could your sprint planning meeting be run more effectively? From what we've seen, the answer is always "yes." More often than not, we see symptoms and problems such as:

  • No idea as to when the meeting will end
  • Frustrated participants
  • Technical distractions
  • Sleeping or otherwise disengaged team members
  • No improvement over the last meeting
  • Unprepared product owners

In this day-long course, you'll work through a sample scrum planning session and other exercises. Some of the topics of discussion include:

  • Appropriate Participants
  • The Role of Scrum Master
  • A Prepared Product Owner
  • Building An Agenda
  • Improving On Estimates and Commitments
  • The Role of Design
  • Mid-Sprint Checkpoints
  • What Not to Do During Sprint Planning
  • Getting More Out of Your Daily Scrums
  • Using Retrospectives Appropriately

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