Course: Optimizing Your Sprint Planning (1 day)
- Target audience:
- Scrum masters and other Scrum team members
- Class size:
- 12 to 24
- Prerequisites:
- none
Could your sprint planning meeting be run more effectively? From what I've seen, the answer is always "yes." More often than not, I 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 Standups
- Using Retrospectives Appropriately