Prepare a sprint (Sprint Planning)

Set the goal, work out the team's capacity, choose tickets against past velocity and confirm the plan.

Plan

All plans

Required permission

Sprints › CreateDefault: Product Owner, Scrum Master, plus the project owner and admins.

Required permission

Sprints › EditDefault: Product Owner, Scrum Master, plus the project owner and admins.

#Open the planning

In Sprints, click Sprint Planning on the card of a sprint that has not started yet. Planning runs in steps; Simple view shows only the essentials, Full view shows everything.

#The steps

1. Preparation: the Preparation checklist confirms that the backlog is prioritised, the tickets are refined and the velocity is estimated.
2. Sprint goals: the main goal, presented to the team. The Sprint Review verdict will be on this goal.
3. Team capacity: the sprint's working days and each person's available person-days, to account for absences.
4. Velocity: Manifst recalls the minimum, average and maximum of recent sprints, and you set a target velocity.
5. Sprint Tickets: add tickets from the Available backlog, adjust their story points, remove the lower-priority ones.
6. Definition of Done: the criteria taken from the project's template, to be adjusted for this sprint if needed.
7. Summary, then Finish planning.

Capacity, ticket order and estimates are saved: you can leave the planning and come back to it.

#Next

Start the sprint when the team is ready. Only one sprint can be active at a time. Unfinished tickets from a completed sprint are carried over automatically into the next sprint: the summary says so.