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Plan a Sprint With Clear Goals and Dependencies

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120 min Advanced Engineering Managers Product Owner Advance Your Career Career outcome: Improve Productivity

Plan a sprint, including discovery, prioritization, story shaping, acceptance criteria, dependencies, refinement, sprint questions, stakeholder tradeoffs, release readiness, feedback, and outcome review.

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You need to plan a sprint, including prioritizing tasks, assigning resources, and creating a timeline. You want to ensure that all stakeholders are informed and aligned with the plan, and that the plan is flexible enough to accommodate changes and uncertainties.

You'll need

  • Sprint Goal
  • Backlog Tasks
  • High-Priority Tasks
  • Team Composition
  • Sprint Duration
  • Roadblocks and Risks
  • KPIs
  • Communication Plan
  • Adaptation Plan
  • Success Criteria
  • Review Plan
  • Next Steps

You'll get

  • Your sprint plan is complete, including prioritized tasks, assigned resources, and a timeline
  • All stakeholders are informed and aligned with the plan
  • The plan is flexible enough to accommodate changes and uncertainties.

By the end of this playbook

You will have:

  • Your sprint plan is complete, including prioritized tasks, assigned resources, and a timeline
  • All stakeholders are informed and aligned with the plan
  • The plan is flexible enough to accommodate changes and uncertainties.

Sample

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Our team's goal is to deliver a new feature for the upcoming release. We have a backlog of 20 tasks, with 5 high-priority tasks that must be completed first. Our team consists of 2 developers, 1 designer, and 1 QA engineer. We have 4 weeks to complete the sprint.

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Sprint plan with prioritized tasks, assigned...

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