Developing Effective Agile Sprint Plans
This course will help you with the common challenge of creating rapid, solid sprint plans or struggling with mid-sprint issues. After completing this course, you will have the skills and knowledge of how to execute and deliver quality sprint plans.
What you'll learn
Creating rapid, solid sprint plans can be extremely challenging and struggles with issues such as mid-sprint roadblocks, incomplete work at the end of a sprint, the treatment of bugs, and when to apply ‘spikes’ are not uncommon. In this course, Developing Effective Agile Sprint Plans, you will learn the skills, approaches, and techniques to advance your essential sprint planning capabilities. First, you will quickly review key Agile, Scrum, and sprint terms to provide the basis for this course and cover the numerous benefits of having a solid Agile planning process. Next, you will learn the activities regarding the product backlog, user stories, sprint planning, sprint backlog, the sprint itself, daily scrum or stand up, the potentially shippable product, and lastly the sprint review and retrospective. Finally, you will explore how to handle the myriad of issues that may affect and impede your plan, such as: bugs, staffing, ‘spikes’, and incomplete work and what options you can apply to mitigate them. When you’re finished with this course, you will have the skills and knowledge of how to improve, execute, and deliver high quality sprint plans; and what options you have if things ‘go wrong.’
Table of contents
- Overview 1m
- Agile Foundation 3m
- Agile Participants 5m
- The Agile Project Life-cycle 1m
- Agile Release, Sprint, and Daily Work 1m
- How Sprint Planning Fits into the Overall Agile Project? 3m
- Backlogs: Driving Agile Projects Forward 7m
- User Stories and INVEST 5m
- User Stories: Example and Template 5m
- Epics and More 4m
- How to Write Quality Tasks 2m
- Leveraging SMART 3m
- Summary 3m
- Overview 2m
- Estimation Skills Are Critical 4m
- Velocity 1m
- Sprint Time Boxing 3m
- Planning Releases 2m
- Release Plan Results 6m
- Sprint Planning: Part 1 2m
- Preparing for Sprint Planning 1m
- Refine the Backlog 1m
- Estimating the Sprint 5m
- Sprint Planning: Part 2 1m
- Prioritize Sprint Backlog Items 4m
- Velocity and Sprint Goals 4m
- Daily Work and Daily Scrums 2m
- Daily Stand Up 3m
- Burnup Chart: Assessing the Health of Your Sprint 3m
- Detailed 2-Week Sprint Example 1m
- Sprint Demo, Review, and Retrospective 1m
- Sprint Demo 2m
- Sprint Review 2m
- Sprint Retrospective 2m
- Summary 3m
- Overview 1m
- Adaptive Planning 3m
- Team Dynamics 1m
- Nurturing Your Product Owner 2m
- Introducing Slack into Your Sprints 1m
- Using Spikes Effectively 2m
- Technical Debt 3m
- What Can Affect Velocity? 2m
- Using Slack Effectively 1m
- Improving Task Estimation 2m
- Making Mid-sprint Corrections 1m
- Dealing with Unexpected Problems 2m
- Handling a Lost Sprint 1m
- Dealing with Partially Done Work 1m
- Summary 2m