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Planning

Your learners will almost definitely already have the skills to plan. You will connect their with their past understanding of planning and help them frame Sprint Planning in a familiar and approachable manner. We use Henrik Kniberg's planning agenda to streamline this process. THey will have been through the Sprint Planning module as part of Session 2 homework, so they should come to class with some understanding of how all of this works in practice.

Be sure to check in with your producers to know if any learners failed to do this homework. If so, it is up to you on how you will ensure they get the content they need to be successful.

Outcomes

  • Learners understand The purpose, goals, and objectives of Sprint Planning
  • Learners have ana ction item to take back with them

Activities

  • Breakout Activity-Sprint Planning (20+ min)

Outline

Purpose of Sprint planning

  • Goals
  • Outputs
  • What can we dliver in this Sprint?

Team velocity chart

  • This is our 'budget
  • Team's commitment
  • Created by using 'yesterday's weather'. Call out this as a Scrum Pattern.

The Interrupt Pattern. This is a heavily animated slide.

  • What is a Kaizen?
  • The team knows they will be interrupted, so how can they plan for this?
  • The team employs the Interrupt Pattern

Sprint Planning (per Henrik Kneiberg)

  • Evaluate yesterday's weather
  • The "What?"
  • The "Why?"
  • "Fist of Five" to gauge the team's commitment

Sprint Planning Breakout Activity (20+ min)

Planning Poker

Send your learners into a room to complete Sprint Planning using the agenda they just learned

  • Come back together for the recap. Important lesson: We can't bring more than Yesterday's Weaather and Capacity in, but we can pull work when we finish the planned work

Team Agilty Scale

Ask them to write down what they are commiting to doing and share ith the class.

Notes from the past