Wednesday Playbook
Our Services
  • Welcome to our Playbook
  • What we do
    • Our Services
      • Catalyse - For companies looking for staff augmentation services
      • Launch - Startups and Early Stage Companies
      • Control - Fast-paced tight-deadline projects with moonshot ROI potential
      • Amplify - Scaleups and Hyper-Growth Companies
      • Do's and don'ts
      • Ceremonies
    • Our Partner Programs
      • Agency Partner Program
      • Advisor/Consultant Partner Program
      • Investor Partner Program
      • Developer Tooling Partner Program
  • Employee Handbook
    • How We Work
      • Our Values
      • Our Dream Team
      • Our Leave Policy
      • Out of Office
      • Communication
      • Security Practices
      • Hiring Philosophy
    • Employment Policies
      • Equal Opportunity Employment
      • At-Will Employment Policy
      • Code of Conduct
      • Employee Privacy
      • Compensation
      • Performance Appraisal Policy
        • Timeline for each appraisal cycle
        • Guidelines for Self, Manager, Peer & Colleague Reviews
    • Starting at Wednesday
      • Your first day
        • Onboarding Checklist
      • Becoming a permanent employee
      • Getting Paid
      • Dress Code
      • Work Hours
    • Benefits and Perks
      • Holiday List
      • Paid Time Off
      • Group Health Insurance
      • Conferences
      • Hardware & Software Licenses
  • Engineering Playbook
    • Introduction to Our Engineering Playbook
    • System Architecture & Design
      • Templates
    • Release Engineering
      • Git-flow
      • Code reviews
      • Commit Messages
      • Pull requests
      • Continuous Integration and Delivery
    • Careers in Engineering
      • Hiring Engineers
      • Career Growth
  • DESIGN PLAYBOOK
    • Introduction to Our Design Playbook
    • Who we are
      • Our Journey
    • Why Us
      • Our Values As Designers
    • Careers in Product Design
      • Hiring Designers
  • Project Management Playbook
    • Introduction to Our Project Management Playbook
    • General Guidelines
      • Checklists
        • Internal Checklist
        • Customer Onboarding Checklist
    • Our Approach
      • Agile Ceremonies
        • Sprint Planning
        • Standups
        • Retrospectives & Demos
      • Stakeholder Management
        • Documentation
      • Team Management
    • Careers in Project Management
      • Career Growth
  • Communications
    • Introduction to Our Communications Playbook
    • Content
      • Channels
      • Process
        • Articles
          • Article Structure
            • Introduction Section
            • Instruction Sections
            • Getting Started Section
            • Theory Section
            • Reference Sections
            • "Where to go from here" section
          • Choose your topic
          • Write your outline
            • Research the topic
            • Create your article outline
          • Sample project
            • Follow the four commandments
            • Create a starter project
          • First draft
            • Think of the reader as a beginnner
            • Stay in limit
            • Make it scannable
            • Explain Code
          • Polish your draft
            • Use Hemingway
            • Review as a reader
    • Brand Assets
      • Wednesday
      • The Wednesday University
      • The Wednesday Show
  • Legal Templates
    • Client Contracts
      • Fixed Cost
        • Master Services Agreement for Fixed Cost
        • Statement of Work for Fixed Cost Projects
      • Time and Material
        • Master Services Agreement for T&M
        • Statement Of Work for T&M Projects
    • Personnel Contracts
      • Internship Offer & Intent to Hire
        • Internship Offer Template
        • Annexure 1 - List of Documents for Interns
        • Acknowledgment of Receipt of Playbook for Interns
        • Letter of Intent to Hire
      • Offer cum Appointment Letter for full-time personnel
        • Offer Cum Acceptance Letter Template
        • Annexure 1 - List of Documents for Personnel
        • Acknowledgment of Receipt of Playbook for Personnel
      • Contractor Agreement
        • Contractor Agreement Template
        • Annexure A
  • Elsewhere
    • Our Products
    • The Wednesday Show
    • Wednesday University
Powered by GitBook
On this page
  • What is it?
  • Tips

Was this helpful?

Edit on Git
  1. Project Management Playbook
  2. Our Approach
  3. Agile Ceremonies

Sprint Planning

An overview of our sprint planning methodology. We go into what is it, and a few tips to help plan effective sprints.

A sprint for us is usually two weeks long.

What is it?

A collaborative effort facilitated by the project manager. The project manager explains the backlog and defines the sprint goal. The team then defines the work and effort needed to meet the goal.

This is done before the start of the sprint. It sets the roadmap for the team with a clear idea about what is intended to be done.

Tips

  • Eye on the clock: Keep it constrained to a max of one hour per sprint.

  • Fixed Goals: Gather feedback from the previous sprint and with the product vision in mind prepare a goal.

  • Outcome driven: Don’t go into the depths of how each task should be done and who will do it. Rather focus on gathering estimates.

  • Trust-based environment: Estimates are not commitments. Team members should be able to freely estimate stories without judgment. Velocity over time will naturally increase.

  • Always be humble

PreviousAgile CeremoniesNextStandups

Last updated 11 months ago

Was this helpful?