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Progress towards sprint goal

Last post 09:49 am April 20, 2019 by Simon Mayer
3 replies
Maria Sosnovets
02:35 pm April 19, 2019

Hi everyone!

What instruments do you use to check the progress towards the sprint goal? Burndown is not ok - sprint backlog consists of several tasks, but the sprint goal includes only 1-2, for example.

PO doesn't attend stand ups - there are several teams working on 1 product

Ian Mitchell
05:05 pm April 19, 2019

If the attainment of a Sprint Goal only requires the completion of one or two tasks, how much additional transparency over progress do developers really need? What problem are you actually trying to solve?

Timothy Baffa
08:01 pm April 19, 2019

What issues (if any) is the Development Team experiencing around Sprint Goal progress?   



Is it not transparent to them?   If not, why?

Simon Mayer
09:49 am April 20, 2019

sprint backlog consists of several tasks, but the sprint goal includes only 1-2

Are the tasks sized sufficiently for the developers to understand how much work is remaining? If not, could there be opportunities to slice them into smaller tasks, which may then provide more granularity about how much has been done throughout the sprint?

On a separate point, given that most of the work seems to be about something else, how focused are the team on achieving their Sprint Goal? Is there any impediment that prevents greater focus on a single goal?

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