Sprint Planning

Sprint Planning Lab

Forecasting, slicing, and commitment conversations without theater.

BRL 540 · 3 weeks · 4h live + 6h async

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Inside the syllabus

Practice planning sessions that respect uncertainty. You will work through slicing heuristics, dependency mapping, and definition-of-ready gates with facilitator notes you can reuse immediately.

Facilitator

Avatar for Iago Mendes

Iago Mendes

Scrum mentor specializing in planning hygiene for engineering managers.

Capabilities you rehearse

  • Planning poker alternative decks
  • Dependency radar worksheet
  • Forecasting scenarios with historical samples
  • Definition-of-ready maturity rubric
  • Facilitator pacing timer scripts
  • Risk callout phrases that avoid blame
  • Sprint goal drafting workshop

Outcomes

  1. Facilitate a planning session that ends with a testable sprint goal
  2. Spot hidden dependencies before they become blockers
  3. Keep forecasting conversations honest without sandbagging

FAQ for this track

Yes. Labs include async handoffs and Miro-ready boards you can duplicate.

Experience notes

Sprint Planning Lab dependency radar worksheet changed how we talk about upstream APIs.

Marina · Service company delivery cell · 4/5 · Google

Short course, dense. The definition-of-ready rubric is now pinned in our wiki.

Elias · Engineering manager