Sprint Planning Meeting

The sprint planning meeting is a 4 hour meeting, for a two week sprint. We prioritise the Product Backlog before we go into a sprint planning meeting. During this meeting we choose the prioritised user stories, estimate them and select the ones we commit to work on during the sprint.

As lists make life easier, for me, this is how I have organised the sprint planning.

[ Before ]

1. Ask everyone to take their holiday plans to the sprint planning. 
2. Checkout Systems holiday’s too!
3. Cards, markers, pens. 
4. Clarify any user stories during the PB grooming meeting.
5. Confirm with PO via email, top X user stories. 

[ During ]

1. Writing board.
2. Sprint Goal (what will be our goal during this sprint? Then, in theory, we shouldn't work on anything that doesn't support this goal.)
3. Holidays need to be taken into account.
4. Steps:
1. Write out user stories (everyone participates)
2. Estimate user stories
3. Prioritise user stories
4. Choose which ones we can get done
5. Commit
6. Developers write out tasks for user stories

[ After ]

1. Book Meeting rooms.
2. Add meetings to calendar.
3. Meetings:
1. Product Backlog Grooming
2. Sprint Review
3. Sprint Retrospective
4. Sprint Planning
5. User communication
6. Daily Stand-up
7. PO/Stakeholder shape-up meeting. 
4. Create Change Requests for Sprint and add deployment dates.
5. Printouts:
1. Calendar
2. Goal
6. Scrum board set up.