Agile Sprint Planning: In-House Training
The goal of the course is to provide you and your team with the ability to develop effective and realistic Sprint plans.
Without effective Sprint Plans, iterations are set up for failure. But Sprint Planning cannot be improved on its own, in isolation. The Scrum processes are highly intertwined and influence each other. The surrounding artifacts, events, and roles must be examined closely, and enhanced, in order to improve Sprint Planning.
This course will remind you of the theory to reinforce the principles, but will concentrate on next-level skills, so that you and the team are able to create realistic and usable Sprint Plans.
This course is not introductory. You are already aware of the Scrum framework and have been implementing Scrum on your projects. Now is the time to improve efficiency and effectiveness, to facilitate successful Agile projects.
What you will Learn
You'll learn how to:
Identify and correlate the key symptoms and root causes of ineffective sprint plans
Improve key Product Backlog elements
Evaluate Agile roles in sprint planning
Appraise key product practices
Enhance project transparency
The Product Backlog
User stories
Acceptance Criteria
Backlog Refinement
Supporting Roles
Product Owner (the Backlog)
Development Team
Stakeholders and SMEs
Supporting Product Practices
Roadmaps and release plans and story maps
Definition of Done
Technical Debt
Transparency
Daily Scrums
Information radiators
Retrospectives
Sprint Planning
Capacity and Velocity
Sprint Planning Meetings
The Sprint Backlog
Summary
What did we learn, and how can we implement this in our work environments?