Do Rolling Lookahead Planning
All too often a team finishes its sprint planning meeting only to discover it needs a small amount of work done by another team but that team is not available. Rolling lookahead planning greatly reduces the frequency of this problem by having teams spend a few minutes each sprint thinking about what they will do in the next couple of sprints. Normally the most convenient time to do this is at the end of the sprint planning meeting, as the team and product owner are already together with their minds on planning.
Depending on the team, the sprint length, and a few other factors, planning one sprint takes anywhere from an hour to a full day. Planning an additional couple of sprints in the same meeting would seem both ...
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