Sprint/Iteration Planning

Iteration planning (aka sprint planning) is a key aspect of Scrum and Extreme Programming (XP).  In a good iteration planning meeting, teams develop a clear understanding of the iteration's goals and their implications.  This can significantly jump start the iteration and 
unify the team.  Done poorly, iteration planning can waste a lot of time without improving clarity. 

In this workshop, we'll explore how to optimize your planning sessions so that your team gets the most out of them.  We'll talk about the pre-planning, running the planning meeting and implications for the iteration.  We'll also touch on coordinating with other teams and how 
iteration planning relates to release planning.

This session will be valuable to both those new to agile as well as those with more exposure.  Throughout, we'll share experiences and 
perform exercises to generate some new ones. 

Speaker Bio:

Walter Bodwell is the founder of Planigle, a company which provides consulting, training and tools to help teams get the most out of agile development. While at Planigle, Walter has worked with companies from start ups to large enterprises to assist them in their software practices. He has also developed an agile project management tool to help teams manage their backlogs, their iterations and their releases.

Prior to that Walter was a senior director at BMC Software where he led engineering of the Service Impact and Event Management and Performance Management product lines (scaling agile to groups of up to 150 engineers across multiple continents).

Walter is also the current Vice President of Agile Austin.

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