Planning is a part of both the Scrum and Waterfall processes, but their approaches to dealing with uncertainty, change, and cooperation are different. While waterfall follows a more rigid and established procedure, scrum embraces change and promotes close cooperation between team members and stakeholders throughout the project.
Scrum is built on empirical process control and encourages flexibility, adaptability, and iterative development. The team regularly inspects and modifies its work in response to feedback and altering requirements. Contrarily, a waterfall approach is sequential and linear, requiring that each project phase—including requirements, design, programming, testing, and so forth—be finished before moving on to the next. It relies on in-depth preparation and documentation, leaving little room for modifications or alterations after a phase is complete.
In Scrum, Sprint Planning is a crucial activity starting a sprint, which is a time-boxed iteration lasting typically 1-4 weeks. The work that will be completed during the sprint is decided upon jointly by the Scrum team during sprint planning. The team examines the product backlog, chooses user stories or tasks to work on, estimates their effort, and develops a sprint backlog, which is a prioritized list of tasks that are to be finished in that specific sprint.
Contrarily, Waterfall Planning is a sequential approach to project management in which the project is broken down into discrete phases, including requirement gathering, design, development, testing, and deployment. To create and explain project needs, designs, and specifications, this largely relies on documentation. The documentation forms the foundation for each succeeding phase, guaranteeing a seamless changeover between project phases. At the conclusion of each step, stakeholders are normally consulted and given feedback. This makes it difficult to include stakeholders' advice early on because they might not start to see any noticeable outcomes until the project is far underway. These initiatives frequently have definite deadlines and milestones for each step. These benchmarks aid in tracking development and determining if the project is on schedule or not.