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Sprint planning

Sprint planning

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Sprint planning

- Your product team will meet periodically to stay on the same page and keep momentum moving forward. A natural way to do this is a sprint planning meeting. Sprint planning, part of agile development brings together your whole product team to refocus, minimize surprises, and guarantee higher-quality code. This includes the product manager, product owner, scrum master, product designer, and engineers. We won't get too deep into agile in this course, but agile is a common method of development in modern software organizations. In sprint planning meetings, your goal is to agree on a scope of work over a period of time. The scope of work is the mix of items from the product backlog that your team is committing to complete during that sprint. The product backlog contains short initiatives, including bug fixes, product functionality, and risks. The product owner is a role within agile teams that is in charge of the product backlog. But in smaller organizations, the product manager will also…

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