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Loop 02
Sprint Planning
From Backlog to Shared Direction
A 60-minute Learning Loop that moves Sprint Planning from dividing tasks to creating shared direction: why the Sprint matters, what work supports it, and how the team will get started.
60 minScrum teams, Scrum Masters and Product Owners who want planning that ends in shared direction rather than a filled backlog.
Learning objective
Understand the purpose of Sprint Planning and how the Scrum Team collaboratively creates a valuable Sprint Goal and an initial plan for achieving it.
Supporting video
Scrum in Practice - Sprint Planning
In this short video, we’ll look at Sprint Planning — and one important shift in how we think about it. Sprint Planning is not about filling the Sprint with as much work as possible. It’s about creating shared direction: understanding why the Sprint is valuable, choosing the right work, and creating enough of a plan to get started.