Can someone from @amazon shed some light on how sprint planning works at Amazon? Is it ran by TPM or by SDMs? How are tasks scoped for size? I am curious how much it differs from my current company. TC: 250 + bananas #amazon #sprint
TPMs work at program level. Sprint planning happens at team level. At best TPM will run Scrum of Scrum meetings which all Scrum masters attend.
Every team is diff
Yeah I was asking if there is a standard practice. As a follow up, I am assuming product managers have a product backlog list?
SDMs/SDEs are better at sprint planning and do it normally. Some teams have TPMs do it, but I've normally seen them act as middlemen to facilitate the planning: Ask A when they'll be done with something B needs. Tell B, etc
Does Amazon use jira? Or they have their own tools for this? Please don't tell me excel. Lol
Some teams use JIRA, some use another in-house system. I don't think anyone uses excel, we're not savages.
You call sprint planning. The on call engineers skip because there's an incident. The senior engineer skips because they are needed in another meeting. Halfway through, a few more engineers leave because they have to help with the incident. You plan a few stories with the remaining other engineer. Two days into the sprint, the manager shits on the plan.
Can’t related at amazon. It works pretty well and we retro every sprint too
Ran by sde.