sprint-plan

Sprint Plan is a product-management skill that helps teams plan an agile sprint by estimating capacity, selecting and sequencing stories, mapping dependencies, and identifying risks. It addresses the common problem of over- or under-committing a sprint by grounding the plan in historical velocity and a realistic capacity buffer, and by surfacing dependencies and risks before work begins rather than mid-sprint.

The skill first reads any user-provided files such as backlogs, velocity data, team rosters, or previous sprint reports. It then follows a structured set of instructions: estimating team capacity from member availability (PTO, meetings, on-call) and average velocity over the last three sprints while reserving a 15-20% buffer for bugs and tech debt; reviewing and selecting stories from the prioritized backlog against a Definition of Ready and stopping when capacity is reached; mapping story and external-team dependencies to identify the critical path; identifying risks like high uncertainty, dependency slippage, and knowledge concentration along with mitigations; and producing a sprint-plan summary containing the sprint goal, duration, capacity, committed stories with points and owners, buffer, and a risks-with-mitigations list. It closes by defining a single-sentence sprint goal and saving the result as markdown.

It is aimed at product managers, scrum masters, product owners, and engineering leads preparing for sprint planning, estimating capacity, selecting stories, or balancing scope against velocity. It is a single-file SKILL.md that produces a planning document and includes a link to further reading on product owner versus product manager roles.