Sprint Planning in Just 10 Minutes Is Possible!

• Is sprint planning day hard for your team? ??
• Are you stuck in the meeting for hours estimating issues before starting the sprint? ??

After speaking with numerous companies, I discovered that this is a widespread issue.

However, some agile teams have achieved 10-minute sprint planning!

How do they do it? They utilize grooming sessions.

Grooming sessions (or refinement) are meetings held once or twice a week where the team "grooms" backlog tickets, meaning they analyze and estimate upcoming issues from the backlog using the planning poker technique.

Grooming meetings are beneficial because:

• They are time-framed (usually 45 minutes), so everyone knows how long they need to focus on estimations, avoiding endless meetings with uncertain end times.
• Since they occur once or twice a week, if a specific issue requires further investigation, you can postpone it to the next meeting.
• The team will arrive at planning day with all the heavy lifting done. Since all issues for the starting sprint are already analyzed and estimated, you'll just need to decide which ones to include in the sprint based on your capacity and spillover.

Keep in mind that nearly 150,000 users, including companies like Google, Microsoft, and Figma, use planningpokeronline.com for their estimations, claiming increased fun and efficiency. Give it a try in your next meeting and let us know your thoughts!