- Look at the upcoming stories — these could come from:
- the program level (i.e. team’s part of a feature/enabler,
- team’s own context (i.e. refractors, maintenance, technical debt),
- other stakeholders (i.e. other teams’ dependencies, spikes, commitments).
- Discuss … have conversations of each story … tip: try capping to 15 minutes per story… extend as necessary
- Estimate… albeit at a high level estimation
- Establish the initial understanding of the Acceptance Criteria per story