Sprint Planning: A meeting at the start of a sprint where the team decides which work to take on and roughly how to do it.
Example
In sprint planning, the team picks ten stories from the backlog and your mentor gives you two small ones.
Why Sprint Planning matters for IT interns
It is where you find out what is expected of you for the next few weeks. Listen carefully and ask questions.
Where you will hear it
You will hear this term in team routines such as stand-ups, sprint planning, and retrospectives. If someone uses it and you are not sure what they mean in your project, it is completely fine to ask; every team uses terms a little differently.
Related terms
- Scrum Master: The person who helps the team follow Scrum, runs the team meetings and helps remove obstacles.
- Sprint: A short, fixed period — usually one to four weeks — in which the team aims to finish a planned set of work.
- Sprint Backlog: The items the team has committed to in the current sprint, plus the plan for completing them.
- Sprint Review: A meeting at the end of a sprint where the team shows the finished work to stakeholders and collects feedback.
- Story Points: A relative number teams use to estimate how much effort or complexity a story involves.
- Task: A small, specific piece of work, often part of a user story.
Previous term: Sprint Backlog | Next term: Sprint Review
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Frequently asked questions
What is Sprint Planning?
A meeting at the start of a sprint where the team decides which work to take on and roughly how to do it.
What is an example of Sprint Planning?
In sprint planning, the team picks ten stories from the backlog and your mentor gives you two small ones.
Why does Sprint Planning matter for IT interns?
It is where you find out what is expected of you for the next few weeks. Listen carefully and ask questions.
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Dhaivat has 16+ years of experience in the IT industry, working on AI and cloud technologies, project delivery, and engineering leadership. He has interviewed and mentored many interns, wrote The Lost Intern, and runs the non-commercial Career Impact Initiative, mentoring students for free.