Sprint Planning Board
A comprehensive Excel sprint planning tool covering backlog grooming, sprint goal setting, story point estimation, capacity planning, and daily standup tracking across the full sprint lifecycle.
What’s inside
- Backlog grooming and story point estimation
- Capacity planning and sprint velocity tracking
- Blank Template + Filled Example
About this download
The Sprint Planning Board is a comprehensive Excel workbook that supports every step of the Scrum sprint lifecycle — backlog refinement, sprint goal setting, story-point estimation, capacity planning, daily stand-up tracking, burn-down charting and end-of-sprint retrospective. For teams that have outgrown sticky notes but can't adopt dedicated agile tooling, this workbook delivers the discipline of Scrum in a format every team member already knows.
The workbook starts with a product backlog sheet where product owners maintain a prioritised list of user stories, each with an ID, title, description, acceptance criteria, story-point estimate, priority, and status. A refinement tab supports backlog grooming sessions with definition-of-ready checks. A sprint plan sheet lets the team commit to a subset of stories based on velocity and capacity, with an auto-calculated capacity check that flags overcommitment. A daily stand-up tab captures yesterday/today/blockers for each team member. A sprint board view visualises To Do, In Progress, Review, Done across the sprint's user stories. A burn-down chart renders automatically from daily effort remaining. A retrospective tab runs Start/Stop/Continue or 4Ls formats with action-item ownership.
This template is used by scrum masters, agile coaches, product owners, development team leads, product managers and operations teams running two-week iterations on non-software work. It suits software development teams, marketing squads, design teams, research teams and any cross-functional group adopting agile ways of working. The filled example walks through three complete sprints of a fictional product team, with realistic velocity variation, one failed sprint and a strong recovery, so teams see that sprint planning is about learning, not performance.
A well-run sprint starts with a 90-minute planning session, holds a 15-minute daily stand-up, includes a mid-sprint review if scope is at risk, ends with a 60-minute demo and a 60-minute retrospective, and produces measurable improvement in the next sprint. Velocity should be tracked over at least five sprints before conclusions are drawn — a single sprint number means very little.
Inside Vizually, the same sprint can run on an interactive visual board where cards move through columns in real time, dependencies render as arrows between cards, and the burn-down updates automatically as status changes.