Sprint Planning Items
Agile teams plan their work iteratively, every sprint. Learn more about how teams perform sprint planning items below.
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Agile teams plan their work iteratively, every sprint. Learn more about how teams perform sprint planning items below.
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Sprint planning items are documentation that an Agile team delivers when they are operating with the Scrum method. Each time they perform a sprint, they discuss:
The priorities based on the project roadmap
The "Sprint Goals": outcomes to achieve by the end of the next sprint
The "Sprint Items": independent tasks involved to achieve the sprint goals
The "Sprint Do'ers": people who are committed to finish the work together.
Here's an example of a result of sprint planning:
Sprint planning items are valuable because they create clarity and expectations about what the team is committing to. They enable teams to rally around the same shared outcomes to achieve, no matter how they choose to achieve them as a self-organized team.
Teams get together, review the backlog and project roadmap, and decide priorities for the sprint together. Tasks they choose should already have product requirements that are refined so that they are ready to be worked. Teams may need to run a prioritization activity before choosing their sprint items.
The Scrum Master function runs and facilitates sprint planning based on the backlog management that the Product Owner function performs.
Here's a Workshop Template your team can use before a project and during projects to outline the sprint goals, sprint tasks, and assigned team member responsibilities.
Before every sprint, the team gets together to plan their upcoming sprint, and revisit the project roadmap.
Get together as a full team.
Review the project roadmap to go over what you estimated to take on.
Prioritize sprint items.
Identify the sprint goals, the shared outcomes to achieve for the sprint.
Choose the sprint items.
The team self-commits to the work, and chooses how they want to be involved.