Sprint Planning Template for One-Week Sprints
One-week sprints move fast. Your planning meeting cannot take 2 hours. Stories must be small enough to complete in 2-3 days.
This template is optimized for weekly sprint cadence: tight planning, small stories, and fast retros.
Template sections
4 sections covering the complete sprint planning workflow.
Monday Planning (30 min max)
Walk through 3 items: sprint goal as one sentence, 5-8 stories pre-selected from the backlog, and a quick capacity check.
Story Size Constraint
No story should take more than 2 days. If a story is estimated at 3+ days, it must be split. Large stories guarantee carry-over.
Wednesday Check-In
Quick async check-in: each engineer posts a 2-sentence update in Slack. At mid-week in a one-week sprint, there is zero margin for blocked work.
Friday Demo and Retro (30 min)
Combine demo and retro: 15 minutes to demo completed work, 15 minutes for a focused retro with one question.
Copy-paste template
# Week of [Date] — Sprint Plan ## Sprint Goal [One sentence outcome] ## Stories (5-8 max) | ID | Story | Points | Owner | |---|---|---|---| | [T-1] | [Story] | [2] | [Name] |
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