This is the third blog post in the “How Much Time Should Each Scrum Practice and Meeting Take” series. This posting focuses on sprint planning.
Sprint planning is a recurring, just-in-time activity that takes place at the beginning of each sprint. The purpose of sprint…
I frequently get asked if sprints should be required to start on Mondays and end on Fridays. No, absolutely not! Is it common for sprints to align with week boundaries? Sure, but I think that many teams do that for conceptual (calendar) convenience.
Sprints are…
Sprints (or iterations if you prefer) are rooted in the concept of timeboxing, a time-management technique that helps organize the performance of work and manage scope. Each sprint takes place in a timeframe with specific start and end dates, called a timebox. Inside…
I am frequently asked who should attend the various Scrum meetings—sprint planning, daily scrums, sprint review, sprint retrospective, and product backlog grooming. My Essential Scrum book provides detailed answers to all of these questions. However, after numerous…
The goal of sprint planning is to determine the most important subset of ready product backlog items to build in the next sprint. During sprint planning the Scrum team agrees on a goal for the sprint, and the development team determines the specific product backlog items…