Sprit planning and standup meetings

Yesterday we've created our roadmap, so now we're ready to plan our first sprint! Sprint planning is an event in scrum that kicks off the sprint. The purpose of sprint planning is to define what can be delivered in the sprint and how that work will be achieved. Sprint planning is done in collaboration with the whole scrum team.



Scrum takes the Sprint Planning step very seriously. Each person on the team is asked whether they commit to the stories in the sprint, and each person is expected to say either yes they do or no they don't and why. If someone can't commit, the PO and team need to work together to change the shape of the sprint until everyone can commit.

Sprint planning is a key collaborative effort in scrum. You'll repeat this meeting at the beginning of each sprint, and you'll become better at it every time.

Standup meetings

Said another way, a stand-up is a daily meeting that involves the core team: product owners, developers, and the scrum master. This meeting's flavor is unique to each team, but generally, use three simple questions to generate structure:

  • What did I work on yesterday?
  • What am I working on today?
  • What issues are blocking me?

These questions highlight progress and help flag team blockers. Also, it strengthens the team when everyone shares the progress they're contributing to the team. The daily reinforcement of sharing individual successes and plans keeps everyone excited about the team's overall contribution to the organization.

Blended Learning

  • Please complete the Getting Down to work module in the Scrum course on Linkedin Learning which you can find here.

Today's team objectives

After completing the module in the morning you and your team should complete the following objectives:

  • Have a stand-up meeting on Microsoft Teams
  • Use the roadmap to create issues (user-stories and tasks) in Jira
  • Estimate the issues in Jira
  • Plan a preliminary sprint for next week in Jira

We're not done yet! We haven't learned about wrapping up our sprint and having a retrospective! Please click next to view the rest of the material for today! You'll complete this material individually since you haven't done any work on your sprint yet, you'll do that next week!