Short video (transcript) by Mike Lyons giving practical advice for sprint planning for new teams: start by loading the sprint with estimated stories, frequently check team members’ confidence, use the fist-of-five technique to gauge consensus, and adjust commitment; expect to have real capacity data within about 10 days.
Foreign. The first step in sprint planning is to establish team capacity. But what do you do if you're a brand new team and you don't know? Well, the best practice is to start loading up that sprint with estimated stories and as you're going, checking in with the team members to say, do you feel like we can accomplish this in the sprint? And then you can use the fist of five technique to gauge consensus across the team. If everybody's a five, try adding another story into the sprint commitment. If you start to drop to fours and threes, you know you're at your capacity. But here's the good News. You're only 10 days away from having actual data, so don't sweat it too much. The important thing is to get started and get that empirical data.
