What You Need to Know About Sprint Grooming vs. Sprint Planning
Sprint planning involves answering three questions: what can we do over the next few days/weeks? How will we do it? Who will do which task? On the other hand, during sprint grooming meetings, people discuss requirements and design options, select the best one and break it into smaller ones (user stories) ready for implementation. They also estimate, create a roadmap for the product backlog items, and find risks that can affect sprint success. Participants for Sprint grooming: Product owner Scrum master Customers as necessary to answer any questions they may have about discussed requirements or design options Participants for Sprint Planning: Scrum master only While sprint grooming vs. sprint planning processes accomplish similar goals, there are some differences between them. Sprint grooming, performed at the beginning of a sprint, allows product owners and stakeholders to guide people on how many stories or features are to be completed in that current one-month period. The...