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

"George Dinwiddie [email protected] [SCRUMDEVELOPMENT]" <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.programming.scrum.general
Organization iDIA Computing, LLC
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Yes, and that grooming/pre-planning can be effectively done with a 
subset of the team members if it results in clear acceptance scenarios 
that help describe the acceptance criteria to the rest of the team. This 
is a fundamental aspect of a successful Three Amigos process, in my 
experience.

  - George

On 7/9/15 1:02 PM, Cass Dalton [email protected] [SCRUMDEVELOPMENT] 
wrote:
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> 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]
> <mailto:[email protected]> [SCRUMDEVELOPMENT]
> <[email protected]
> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
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>     __
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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
>     (Michael)
>
>
>>     On Jul 9, 2015, at 9:23 AM, Eric Gunnerson
>>     [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>
>>     [SCRUMDEVELOPMENT] <[email protected]
>>     <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
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>>     A few thoughts…____
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>>     __ __
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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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>>     *From:*[email protected]
>>     <mailto:[email protected]>[mailto:[email protected]]
>>     *Sent:*Wednesday, July 8, 2015 8:42 PM
>>     *To:*[email protected]
>>     <mailto:[email protected]>
>>     *Subject:*[SCRUMDEVELOPMENT] Scrum Sprint Planning - How to run a
>>     really good one?____
>>
>>     __ __
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>>     ____
>>
>>     Hello Team.
>>
>>     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.
>>
>>     I would like to share it with you and get your opinion about it,
>>     and of course, if you could give me more tips.
>>
>>     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/>
>>
>>     Please, tell me your considerations and extra tips.
>>     Hugs and Peace____
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>>     image
>>     <http://getscrum.com/2015/07/06/how-to-make-a-really-good-scrum-sprint-planning-meeting-valueable-tips-and-shortcuts/>____
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>>     		
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>>     How to make a Really Good Scrum Sprint Planning
>>     Mee...<http://getscrum.com/2015/07/06/how-to-make-a-really-good-scrum-sprint-planning-meeting-valueable-tips-and-shortcuts/>____
>>
>>     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 pr...____
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>>     View on*getscrum.com*
>>     <http://getscrum.com/2015/07/06/how-to-make-a-really-good-scrum-sprint-planning-meeting-valueable-tips-and-shortcuts/>____
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>>     Preview by Yahoo____
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>>     ____
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>>     ____
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   * George Dinwiddie *                      http://blog.gdinwiddie.com
   Software Development                    http://www.idiacomputing.com
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