Sprint Planning Basics - Agile Coach (2019)

Sprint planning is a ceremony that helps focus execution, minimize surprises, and guarantee overall higher quality code.

The ceremony usually takes about an hour per week of iteration, for example two hours for a two-week sprint. It should ideally be done early in the week so your team’s flow isn’t disrupted by the weekend.

During the sprint planning process, your product owner, scrum master, and development team will come together to discuss two key questions:

What can we deliver during the upcoming Sprint in order to achieve the sprint goal?

How will we deliver that work?

Watch this video to learn about the three-step process Atlassian has developed for sprint planning.

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[randomcoggles]

1. Focus execution
Q.: What actions in planning make it evident that focus execution is achieved?
2. Minimize surprises
Obs.: Seems clear as one of the purposes of planning is to avoid surprises
3. Higher quality deliveries
Q.: If we plan for quality, right? So topics on quality should be discussed.


Participants:
PO, Scrum master, development team.
Q.: May I assume stakeholders shouldn't participate, as they aren't interested in execution?

Discussion:
1. [What] - What can we deliver to meet our goal?
2. [How] - How will we deliver that work
Q.: Should we have a template doc mapping actions and steps? Is there one somewhere for reference?

Result of planning ceremony:
1. Sprint backlog
2. Sprint duration
Q.: Am I missing some?

Three steps process in planing ceremony:
1. Backlog grooming
2. Sprint planning meeting
3. Creating action items

Takes about an hour per week of iteration
Obs.: The term "about" suggests it may take more or less, as many tasks varies in complexity of planning and easy of execution.

Q.: What is the best time to have planning?

[ganeshrkamath]

can we use agile for BI Analytics development?

[usmanlatif]

word 'grooming' could be changed to Refinement perhaps?