What does product Owner do during sprint planning?

During the sprint planning meeting, the product owner describes the highest priority features to the team. The team asks enough questions that they can turn a high-level user story of the product backlog into the more detailed tasks of the sprint backlog.

Should a product owner run sprint planning?

The Who – You cannot do sprint planning without the product owner or the development team. The product owner defines the goal based on the value that they seek. The development team needs to understand how they can or cannot deliver that goal.

How do you conduct effective sprint planning?

Best practices for running a sprint planning meeting

1. Start with the big picture.
2. Present new updates, feedback, and issue.
3. Confirm team velocity and capacity.
4. Go over backlog items.
5. Determine task ownership.
6. Confirm new issues, impacts, and dependencies.
7. Reach a group consensus.
8. Officially begin your sprint.

How long is a sprint planning meeting?

Sprint planning is limited to a maximum of eight hours. The general rule of thumb is to allow two hours of sprint planning for every one week of sprint length. That means teams should timebox sprint planning to four hours for a two-week sprint and eight hours for a one-month sprint.

What should team do before Agile sprint planning and execution?

Hold a meeting before the meeting. Sprint planning involves two key tasks: grooming the backlog and deciding which work to complete in the upcoming sprint. At Atlassian, we’ve found that backlog grooming is best done in a separate meeting with the product owner and scrum master before the actual sprint planning meeting …

What does sprint planning look like?

Sprint planning is a timeboxed working session that lasts roughly 1 hour for every week of a sprint. In sprint planning, the entire team agrees to complete a set of product backlog items. This agreement defines the sprint backlog and is based on the team’s velocity or capacity and the length of the sprint.

How can sprint planning plan be improved?

9 Tips to Help You Ace Your Sprint Planning Meetings

1. Reserve the same time for sprint planning ⏰
2. Set a sprint planning meeting duration and stick to it ⏳
3. Complete backlog refinement before sprint planning begins 📝
4. Incorporate stakeholder feedback from the sprint review 😍
5. Incorporate sprint retrospective insights 💡

Is sprint planning time boxed?

As noted in the Scrum Guide, a Sprint planning meeting should be timeboxed at 8 hours or less for a one-month Sprint. The shorter the Sprint, the shorter the timebox should be for Sprint Planning. At Scrum Inc., we recommend one-week Sprints and a two-hour timebox for Sprint Planning.

When should you do sprint planning?

When does Sprint Planning take place? Sprint planning occurs on the first day of a new sprint. The event should occur after the sprint review and retrospective from the previous sprint so that any output from those discussions can be considered when planning for the new sprint.

How do I plan sprints in Jira?

To plan a future sprint:

1. If not already there, navigate to your company-managed Jira Software project.
2. From your project’s sidebar, select your Backlog.
3. Click Create sprint at the top of the backlog section.
4. Select Add dates (located under the sprint’s header) to plan the start and end date of your future sprint.