Questions tagged [sprint-planning]
Sprint Planning is an event in scrum during which the team defines what can be delivered in the upcoming sprint and how that work will be achieved.
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Should we take into account scope changes to the Sprint to measure the team efficiency?
My question is about scope changes to the sprint after stating it. The Scrum guide says this about adaptation:
A Scrum Team is expected to adapt the moment it learns anything new through inspection
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How to breakdown MVP designs into testable user stories?
I am unfamiliar with the ideas behind creating user stories for Agile projects, as well as acceptance criteria.
I was wondering how I could turn any MVP design, like the Basket MVP, into tested user ...
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Story points or number of stories
I feel that many of the estimates that the team provides during sprint planning are very large and they are reluctant to break stories down as they’re just itching to get out of the meeting and start ...
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How to document and reference features in the backlog
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During user research phases I document user needs as user stories. Then we brainstorm high-level solutions before it's time to turn them into real features.
I'm having trouble referencing the ...
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Capture burned (story) points for a partially complete task moved to next sprint
If a sprint starts and a story has an estimation of e.g. 8 and at the end of the sprint the story for some reason has not completed, if I move it to the next sprint with the story points updated e.g. ...
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What is bad to have sprint review before finishing sprint?
I just joined a new team, their habit is : sprints of 2 weeks, but, reviews and retrospetives are not in the last day sprint, when they do this ceremonies, they still have half a day of developing and ...
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How to properly add or manage a repeated User Story in Auzre DevOps's backlog?
A user story needs to happen each sprint, and I want it to handle it properly - whatever that may mean - within Azure DevOps. I am used to adding user stories for single-issue tickets but have never ...
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How to integrate DevOps people into a Scrum Team?
NB: In our company's internal lexicon, "DevOps" is a role set by our company that means "infrastructure and operations person" rather than standard DevOps. I know it's more of a ...
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Sprint planning estimations and who is involved
In the past but only in 1 team, during the sprint planning, the product owner provided also an estimation for the story discussed, not so much as to use that estimation instead of the developers, but ...
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How to convert (volume of work, risk, complexity, uncertainty) to story points?
Disclaimer: I'm a developer, so I don't claim to be thoroughly knowledgeable of agile practices, thus I may not always use the correct words and terms. Please correct me if needed.
Agile teams often ...
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Is this a trick assignment with Release Planning ? Any comments is much appreciated [closed]
I am fairly new to PM world. I have been given an assignment/quiz but I am struggling with this because, it doesn't seem like an agile project rather Waterfall project with Agile terms thrown in and ...
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From a project planning perspective, is it wrong to have one sprint for the API and another sprint for the UI?
I am making an e-commerce project that has a dashboard module. Instead of having one sprint for the dashboard module, my advisor said I should split this module realization into two different sprints: ...
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Why is it important to only have PBIs completable in a single Sprint?
In Scrum it is emphasized that the Sprint Goal is achieved and that the developers determine which work can be completed in the Sprint. I often get the following question:
Why can't we start a story ...
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What role should story points play in sprint planning?
I am the scrum master of a team that estimates its user stories using story points. The development team consists of backend and frontend developers.
Currently, what I am doing during every sprint ...
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If a team works on different things, how can they run sprint planning effectively?
I'm a Scrum Master for a team who are working on different features for different products, but all for the same company. As we're a small team, we've kept it to 1 team and have been sprint planning ...
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How to handle a Sprint completed ahead of time? [duplicate]
Let's say we have a sprint of 2 weeks. In that sprint, the IT team has to implement some issues or features. How can we handle the case where the team finishes all issues/features ahead of time?
Do we ...
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How do you close out a Scrum Sprint in Azure Boards? Especially, what should you do with partially completed user stories and tasks?
I am new to Azure Boards and finding it can be very confusing when it comes to scrum sprint ends and planning the next sprint. What should you do with user stories and their tasks that are only ...
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Does the scrum master also estimate user stories?
We recently started working with scrum on an new (large) project. I am a developer but do not take part in that project other than my role as scrum master.
I know about the software they use, but don'...
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Scrum - Add Placeholder for Future Story
Practicing Scrum and Agile, our team had Sprint Planning and we sliced our features into stories. However our team was unsure about what should the "third" story do, so the ScrumMaster ...
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How do I convince a team to follow the Scrum Guide?
I have recently joined a new team in a new organization that is supposedly using Scrum.
This Sprint, the BA/Scrum Master has decided it would be best to do the planning session for 1 hour on ...
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Why is sprint planning so long if your backlog is ready and prioritized
Sprint Planning is time-boxed to a maximum of eight hours for a one-month Sprint. For shorter Sprints, the event is usually shorter.
According to the scrum guide it sounds like the meeting has two ...
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Capacity Driven Sprint Planning
I have recently taken over as Scrum Master for a team.
I plan on implementing capacity driven sprint planning.
The challenge is, we have several User Stories (that should've been classified as Tasks ...
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What should I learn to become a software project manager? [closed]
I am a newbie mediocre developer/freelancer working with Angular-NodeJS/MongoDB projects.
What I want to do is create a team and work on bigger and better projects, but my problem is that I don't ...
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Scrum PSM I Practice Assessment (3rd Party) Trick Questions?
I took the PSM I Practice Assessment here, and came across two questions that appear to be incorrect, or at least trick questions.
Question 1:
https://www.scrumguides.org/scrum-guide.html#team-dev
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How should the Scrum Team proceed if the PO is sick and can't attend the Sprint Planning meeting?
What should we do if the PO is unable to attend the Sprint Planning meeting? Is there a workaround for it?
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Sprint planning
I am a new PM/PO in a software firm in California. I am working with offshore team in India. As a new PM/PO I need to do Sprint Planning. As I understand, Sprint Planning is also known as Sprint 0 as ...
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Is it really necessary to have a four hour meeting in Sprint planning?
According to Wikipedia, it is recommended that there should be a four hour meeting in a
two-week sprint planning (pro-rata for other sprint durations).
Is it necessary? Why?
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How can you estimate a spike story?
We are working on a technology of which the team is not sure how would it go. I would like to estimate and timebox this story. However, the scrum team has to have goal or a shippable product at the ...
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Reducing Spill Overs
The scrum team performs following tasks
Development -- Dev Team
Testing -- Test team
Merging -- Senior Team [BOTTLE NECK]
Acceptance Testing -- PO/BA [BOTTLE NECK]
The Dev and Test team finishes ...
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Selecting user stories during sprint planning
When selecting user stories from the prioritized product backlog during sprint planning, is it more important to make sure that we end up with our predicted velocity in story points or that we choose ...
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Need help for sprint planning when tasks are not done in previous sprint
In our team we don't have dedicated Scrum Master so one of the developer is playing the role of SM. I know this is wrong but it can't be changed.
In out system, we assign story points to all the ...
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Slicing User Stories
I have few queries on how granular we need to go on splitting stories.
We have a story where clicking the phone no in the system should dial cisco or skype or any other telephony systems based on the ...
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Story Points flaw?
Forgive me f this has been asked before, I read some similar questions (linked below), but didn't find the answer I was looking for.
Our team is fairly new to them and trying to figure out how to ...
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Should all team members be assigned user stories?
This is a very basic question but I don't see any answers on it yet.
Scenario: We did sprint planning and I noticed some one saying
Not all developers have a task to do. We need to add more tasks ...
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Sprint board critique
We are a DevOps software team with dependencies upon a release process which often requires us to wait before releasing some code to production for up to 5 times longer than our sprint length. This ...
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How to handle when planned work is blocked and a developer has capacity to take on a new user story that may be too big
Assume the following situation. All but one user story planned in a sprint is completed.
The remaining user story is blocked.
A developer would like to take on work in the highest priority work ...
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Sprints Starting Mid-Week in Scrum
When people discuss Sprints that start or stop mid-week, they seem to agree that this should be done on a Tuesday or Wednesday. Why is that?
Also, how do week-long Sprints with mid-week starts and ...
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Architecture task as sprint issues
I understand spikes as being investigation tasks when there is an uncertainty about how a story should be done but my question is more about how to include a software architecture task in a Sprint.
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Planning a sprint after reduced team strength
We have seven people team and their running velocity is ~50 points(2 weeks sprint). Now due to change in business focus, we have to reduce team size from 7 to 4.
How do we plan current sprint? ...
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Hot swapping stories
Is it acceptable to swap out stories from the current sprint to the backlog and replace them with stories of the same estimate size from the backlog, because of changing priorities in the business?
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How to manage technical conflict between Product Owner and developers?
Imagine you are a Product Owner. And you have planned a sprint, prepared every detail, broken down the epics into
stories and already presented your roadmap to management and promised the releases
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What should we do if there are not enough PBIs to fill a final Sprint in Scrum?
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At the end of a project, there aren't enough story points to fill a two-week Sprint based on the velocity of the team.
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The average velocity of the ...
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