From the course: Agile Product Owner Role: Foundations

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Agile planning overview

Agile planning overview

- There is a myth that planning doesn't happen in agile, and I can't stress enough that this is a complete mess. Planning is critical to success but it does look different than traditional projects. In agile, a product vision, roadmap, release plan, and other planning tools are used before a sprint even starts. They're used as inputs to the product backlog and continuously updated as the team works through sprints. Agile planning is an ongoing piece of agile projects. Agile planning ensures that the backlog the team is working from contains the right items to work on and in the most valuable order. With agile planning, we're focused on ensuring the team is building the right thing by defining the pieces that are most important to the customer. In traditional planning, many plans are based on schedule, budget and tasks. In agile, the product owner decides what the team builds and the team together focuses on how it will get…

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