Category: Meeting

The Effective Sprint Planning Meeting

January 14, 2009 by Peter Stevens

Picture courtesy of Photocapy@Flickr

At the beginning of each sprint, the Scrum team and product owner negotiate the scope of the sprint. They have a limited amount of time to discuss and agree on the sprint backlog. The product owner wants functionality implemented properly and to invest development dollars wisely. The team wants a mandate it can fulfill. And everyone wants the meeting to finish on time! Here is an agenda (complete with a downloadable template) to follow so that your sprint planning will be successful.