Discover how your Mental Model of the Agile Road Map is formed in the brain.

After a day-long sprint planning session, another exhausting sprint ensued. By the time this mini-death march completed, we were “rewarded” with another day-long sprint planning session. By the third sprint, the product owner got mad because we missed our sprint goals again.

Two hundred paratroopers dropped down behind enemy lines. The commander ordered the lieutenant to establish camp on the plain between the mountain on the east and the river (flowing south) on the west.

During sprint planning, the team creates its sprint backlog containing tasks necessary for the team to meet their commitment in fulfilling each product backlog item as part of it sprint goal. I have seen team members stuggle with determining how to define tasks in a way that will support Agile and Scrum values.