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Sprint planning effectiveness

Improve your sprint planning sessions for better outcomes

Analyze and improve your sprint planning process to increase predictability and team engagement. This activity helps you run more effective planning sessions.

40 minutes
practice

Overview

Analyze and improve your sprint planning process to increase predictability and team engagement. This activity helps you run more effective planning sessions.

Learning objectives

  • Assess current planning effectiveness
  • Identify improvement areas
  • Design better planning process

Instructions

Improve sprint planning:

1. Review last 3 sprint planning sessions 2. Identify what worked and didn't 3. Analyze estimation accuracy 4. Design improved planning format 5. Create planning checklist

Steps

1

Planning review

15 minutes

Analyze recent sessions

2

Problem identification

15 minutes

Find improvement areas

3

Process redesign

10 minutes

Create better approach

Pro tips

  • •Focus on commitment quality
  • •Include capacity planning
  • •Make acceptance criteria clear

Example outcome

Improved sprint planning process with templates and checklist

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