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Sprint Goal Definition: Capacity-Aligned Goal Extraction
Use this when your Product Owner has three competing priorities and your team hasn't yet said 'no' to any of them. Before you assign stories, lock in the goal.
From the article 7 AI Prompts for Sprint Planning: Backlog to Execution
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Prompt 1
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Prompt
Our team has [X] story points of capacity this sprint.
Our backlog priorities are: [list top 5 items].
Our last three sprints completed at [Y]% of committed capacity.
Based on our historical velocity and current capacity, what single goal
should we commit to that is achievable and moves the needle?
What assumptions are we making about complexity or dependencies? Replace before pasting:
[list top 5 items] More prompts from this article
- #2 Backlog Prioritization: Value-vs-Complexity Ranking
- #3 User Story Estimation: Assumption-Surfacing Questions
- #4 Task Breakdown: Dependency and Blocker Identification
- #5 Daily Standup: Progress-and-Blockers Prompts
- #6 Sprint Review Preparation: Stakeholder-Ready Demo Prompts
- #7 Retrospective Prompts: Structured Improvement Discovery