From 9759abd46a755d193499dff0e16e476d6956098b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: shashankkatte <43801946+shashankkatte@users.noreply.github.com> Date: Tue, 30 Oct 2018 21:12:34 -0400 Subject: [PATCH] Updated the section on why we do sprint planning (#20502) Added details on what is the purpose of sprint planning --- guide/english/agile/sprint-planning/index.md | 11 +++++++++++ 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+) diff --git a/guide/english/agile/sprint-planning/index.md b/guide/english/agile/sprint-planning/index.md index 3138b18f6c..fdd755730b 100644 --- a/guide/english/agile/sprint-planning/index.md +++ b/guide/english/agile/sprint-planning/index.md @@ -13,6 +13,17 @@ There are two defined artifacts that result from a sprint planning meeting: Sprint Planning is time-boxed to a maximum of eight hours for a one-month Sprint. For shorter Sprints, the event is usually shorter. The Scrum Master ensures that the event takes place and that attendants understand its purpose. The Scrum Master teaches the Scrum Team to keep it within the time-box. +## The WHY behind Sprint Planning +The purpose of Sprint Planning meeting is to achiev the following goals: + +* **Know the work** - The Team must first understand the scope of the highest business value items in product backlog. With this understanding they can choose which of these can be brought into the sprint based on their capacity. The team creates task for each of the items in sprint so that teammembers can volunteer for tasks as sprint progresses. + +* **Get a Fresh Start** - No matter how the last sprint went either a sucess or not so successful. Sprint planning provies a fresh start a new beginning with a collective commitment from the team. + +* **Commit to Shared Goals** - All the work that is commited for the sprint is committed collectively as a team and not as individuals and they jointly agree to achieve the sprint goal. + +* **Create Focus and Abundance** - By choosing the right amount of work for the sprint based on past performances and current capacity of team, the team has created focus for themselves and a feels that "we have enough to do" for this time box. + #### More Information: * https://www.mountaingoatsoftware.com/agile/scrum/meetings/sprint-planning-meeting * [Scrum Guide](http://www.scrumguides.org/scrum-guide.html)