Purpose
The Scaled Sprint Planning Meeting #1 enables you to hold this meeting with up to 10 Teams. Here, the Teams synchronise their goals and their work, while identifying common impediments and dependencies.
Basics
The members of all Teams hold the Sprint Planning Meeting #1 at the same time. Just follow the schedule shown below.
Don't
- ... send a ScrumMaster to the Scrum of Scrums.
- ... let Managers lead the Scrum of Scrums.
- ... save on flipchart paper. Good notes are important.
- ... use projectors.
Ingredients
- Scrum Teams
- Specialist departments, i.e. Customer Support, Legal, Marketing
- Company Backlog, Stories
Insider Tip: Sales, Marketing, copywriters, colleagues from the Legal department and anyone else contributing to the product should attend the Scrum of Scrums. Having everyone at one table helps to answer questions in an efficient way and to communicate current topics to those involved.
Output
- ScrumBoard, flipcharts full of notes on analysis and design
- Commitment of all Teams
- Number of committed Stories
- Dependencies between Teams
- Identified impediments between Teams
Duration/Location
Duration depends on the length of your Sprints, but you should start with 3 hours.
Procedure
Time: 09:00 Duration: 15 min
Explanation of this Sprint's content. It is important that everyone has a clear picture of the context.
Time: 09:15 Duration: 60 min
Team members pick their Stories from the Product Backlog. Start the analysis of the Stories, one after another. Purpose: Get a clear understanding of the Backlog Items
Time: 10:15 Duration: 15 min
Scrum of Scrums (SoS)
Purpose: Identification of impediments and dependencies
The team members report on:
- Their chosen Stories.
- The identified impediments.
- The identified dependencies to other Teams. The team members present the Stories that are worked on. Dependencies (Tasks of one Team for another Team) are brought along, having noted them down on cards earlier.
Time: 10:30 Duration:60 min
The Teams continue working on their Stories.
Time: 11:30 Duration: 15 min
SoS, see above.
Time: 11:45 Duration: 60 min
The Teams continue working on their Stories.
Time: 12:45 Duration: 15 min
SoS plus commitment of all Teams.
Company Backlog
