Ceremonies
Sprint Planning
The session where a team decides what it will try to deliver in the sprint and how that work fits the sprint goal and available capacity.
What sprint planning is for
Sprint planning turns a prepared backlog into a realistic short-term commitment. The goal is not to perfectly forecast every hour of work, but to agree on a valuable target the team actually believes it can pursue.
Good sprint planning depends heavily on work being clear enough before the meeting starts. If the team is discovering the story from scratch in planning, the session usually becomes noisy and unreliable.
Healthy outcomes
- A clear sprint goal
- A believable amount of work
- Visible assumptions and dependencies
- Enough shared understanding to start delivery confidently
Related terms
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Product Owner
Roles
The person accountable for maximizing product value by making backlog decisions, clarifying priorities, and helping the team understand what matters next.
Open definition
Sprint Capacity
Planning
An estimate of how much delivery work a team can realistically take on in a sprint after accounting for availability, meetings, support load, and other overhead.
Open definition
Backlog Refinement
Ceremonies
The ongoing process of clarifying, splitting, and preparing upcoming work so future planning conversations are faster and more concrete.
Open definition