Preparation
- Participants:
- Product owner
- Scrum master
- Team members
- Product backlog is prepared (items are estimated and prioritized) and visible for everyone
- Whiteboard, pencils, sticky notes, planning poker cards, notebook, …
- Team capacity, vacation, absences are known
- Results from sprint review/retro are available
- Duration: 2 hours per sprint week (2 weeks sprint means 4 hours of planning 1)
Moderation
- Agenda, goal, overview (what is this meeting about?)
- Product owner presents his vision to the team
- Product owner presents the backlog items
- not estimated backlog items will be estimated
- Team collects all information they need
- Acceptance criteria, user story, non-functional requirements etc. are clear
- Team estimates what can be done in that sprint and defines the sprint goal with the product owner
- Items will be selected and team commits to the sprint goal
- Goal: The next sprint is planned, vision/goal is clear and the team knows what to do
Additional information
- Send the product owner out of the meeting and ask the team again “Do you really think we can do all this backlog items?”
- Write down all information you get (decisions that are made, ideas, …)
- Sprint goal should be SMART (specific, measurable, accepted, realistic, timely)