• Sprint Planning Meeting: 
  • Attendees: Development team, SCRUM Master, and Product Owner
  • When: At the beginning of the sprint.
  • Duration: Approx 120 min for a 2-week iteration
  • Purpose: Product owner comes with the prioritized backlog and then the Scrum Team plans the ITEMS they are going to deliver in the Sprint and the way they will deliver them, estimate them, break into tasks.

There are two defined artifacts of sprint planning.

1. Sprint Goal-The sprint goal should be a short description of what the team plans to achieve during the sprint. It is written collaboratively by the team and the product owner.

Example-Implement login functionality of the website.

2. Sprint backlog-The sprint backlog is the output of the sprint planning. A sprint backlog is a list of the product backlog items the team commits to delivering plus the list of tasks necessary to delivering those product backlog items. Each task on the sprint backlog is ALSO usually estimated.

3. Iteration planning -Iteration is a more generic term with respect to the Agile. It is used for a single development cycle and is used for Iterative and Incremental process. Sprint is Scrum specific hence sprint is an iteration but not all forms of ITERATIONS are sprint.