December 2011
Beginner
176 pages
3h 54m
English
The purpose of sprint planning meetings is to figure out what to do next. In our case, that means deciding which features go into the “Next Ten Features” column.
Our meetings aren’t really Scrum-by-the-book sprint planning meetings. In Scrum, the team is supposed to commit to a specific set of features for the next sprint. We don’t do that. We don’t even have sprints. All we want is to agree on which features are next in line. Our velocity isn’t stable enough to be able to predict how many features will get done in the short term.

The meeting has two parts: backlog grooming and top ten selection. ...
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