Re: Scrum Sprint Planning - How to run a really good one?

That may be why I like mid-sprint grooming sessions.  You're essentially
doing the grooming/pre-planning with new information you have from the
first half of the sprint.


On Thu, Jul 9, 2015 at 12:51 PM, Michael James [email protected]
[SCRUMDEVELOPMENT] <[email protected]> wrote:


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> I like Eric’s observation.  Planning a short Sprint is less work, less
> anxiety.  Instead of trying to plan better, let’s try to adapt better.
> —mj
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> On Jul 9, 2015, at 9:23 AM, Eric Gunnerson [email protected]
> [SCRUMDEVELOPMENT] <[email protected]> wrote:
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> A few thoughts…
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> My last team took a journey from 4 week sprints to 2 week iterations to 1
> week iterations. We might have gone shorter if we were still together as a
> team.
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> What we found is that the effort to plan a iteration does not scale
> linearly. Planning a one-week sprint is very quick; we have some leftover
> work that didn’t quite get done from the last iteration and then we have to
> figure out what is next on the backlog. The first week of a two-week sprint
> is of course the same as the one-week planning, but the next week out is
> more vague; you aren’t quite a sure what should come next and it’s more
> likely external events (user feedback or new priorities) will disrupt the
> schedule. And four weeks makes things much more vague and it makes it
> harder for the team to engage.
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> We didn’t attempt to put a number on the ratio, but if I was forced to I
> think it’s not 1:2:4 (linear) scaling but something like 1:3:10; it takes 3
> times as much effort to do two-week planning and 10 times as much to do
> four-week planning.
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> *Sent:* Wednesday, July 8, 2015 8:42 PM
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> *Subject:* [SCRUMDEVELOPMENT] Scrum Sprint Planning - How to run a really
> good one?
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> Hello Team.
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> The most difficult meeting in Scrum, in my opinion, is the Sprint Planning.
> To mitigate this situations I am using some tips that i learned during the
> last 4 years that I am running Scrum.
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> I would like to share it with you and get your opinion about it, and of
> course, if you could give me more tips.
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> Here is the article i wrote: How to make a Really Good Scrum Sprint

> Planning Meeting - Valuable Tips and Shortcuts
> <http://getscrum.com/2015/07/06/how-to-make-a-really-good-scrum-sprint-planning-meeting-valueable-tips-and-shortcuts/>
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> Please, tell me your considerations and extra tips.
> Hugs and Peace
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> The Sprint Planning Meeting is very important and the hardest event in
> Scrum, in my opinion. In this event the development team learns about the
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