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Can Sprint Planning and Review be combined?


Nowadays I am learning about agile process. I am learning all the agile stuff. I was talking to one of my friends and He asked me, can we have both sprint review and planning together. I was speechless when he asked me. Can any one tell me whether it is good to have them together or not?


Solution

  • The participants in the sprint review are the development team, the Product Owner, the Scrum Master and the stakeholders. The participants in the planning meeting are the development team, the Product Owner and the Scrum Master.

    So it would be possible to have the meetings back-to-back, letting the stakeholders leave before planning started. However, most teams would have the sprint retrospective between the sprint review and the planning session.

    With small teams I have sometimes booked out 2 hours of meeting rooms and run sprint review, retrospective and then planning back-to-back (with short breaks of course). Some teams like this approach as they get all of the meetings out of the way in one block.