What you'll learn

If you are challenged with creating solid sprint plans quickly and struggling with mid-sprint issues, incomplete work at the end of a sprint, the treatment of bugs and when to apply “spikes,” then this course is for you.

In this course, Developing Effective Agile Sprint Plans, you’ll gain the ability to advance your essential sprint planning capabilities and manage mid-sprint issues.

First, you’ll explore sprint planning skills to optimize your planning and forecast delivery. Some of these topics are story estimating techniques, using velocity to better predict deliverables and managing user story priorities.

Next, you’ll learn the skills for velocity-driven sprint planning, splitting user stories into actionable technical tasks and leveraging daily scrums, burn up/down charts and backlog priorities to improve sprint outcomes.

Finally, you’ll discover how to handle the myriad issues that affect and impede your in-flight sprint, such as slack, spikes, technical debt, partially done work, “lost” sprints and scope changes, as well as the options and approaches you can apply to mitigate them.

When you’re finished with this course, you’ll have the skills and knowledge of sprint planning and management required to successfully develop sprint plans and mitigate mid-sprint issues, resulting in better sprint outcomes.