Rituals

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Refinement

SPRINT
PLANNING

Overview
Sprint planning is the ritual in which the Talent Acquisition Scrum
Master facilitates a collaboration between the Headcount Owner and
the Talent Acquisition Scrum Team to plan the next recruiting sprint.
This ritual takes place after refinement and before the sprint kickoff.
Sprint planning answers two questions: what can the team commit to
and how will they meet their commitment? Sprint planning generates
the content of the sprint overview and sprint commitment artifacts.

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Steps

01
Talent Acquisition Scrum Master facilitates the meeting
The Talent Acquisition Scrum Master should schedule the
ritual prior to the start of a new recruiting sprint when the
Headcount Owner and Talent Acquisition Scrum Team
members can attend. This should be one or more time boxed
meetings, meaning everyone should focus to keep within the
scheduled time.

02
Part 1: What work can be committed to
The Talent Acquisition Scrum Team reviews the top
priority requisitions from the headcount backlog and
selects the subset of requisitions it can commit to fulfilling
by the end of the recruiting sprint. Because there was a
refinement session to get the headcount backlog ready,
each requisition under consideration should:
• Be clear
• Be ready for posting
• Have all necessary approvals
• Have a headcount point estimate
The Talent Acquisition Scrum Team resolves any
outstanding questions with the Headcount Owner. They
affirm their estimates about the complexity of the
requisitions and use their velocity as a guide to decide
how much work they can commit to. The list of
requisitions committed to the sprint is captured in the
sprint commitment.
The sprint planning is also the opportunity for the team to
create and agree on the sprint goals which is captured as
part of the sprint overview.

03
Part 2: How the work will be done
Generally, the second part of sprint planning takes place
with the people who are going to actually do the recruiting
work. They go through the sprint commitment and discuss
how to fulfill the requisitions. What should be done first?
Who will work on each requisition? It's helpful for the
team to think through at least their first few days’ worth of
tasks at this point and divvy up the work among the team
members.

04
Confirm the requisitions are posted to the ATS and the
Kanban board
The requisitions must be posted to the ATS and the
Kanban board prior to the sprint kickoff.