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Sprint Length or Capacity

Last post 04:00 pm April 3, 2015 by tim muttitt
2 replies
12:01 pm April 3, 2015

Hello,

The Development Team couldn't finish most of the Sprint Backlog items in the past two Sprints.

What should they do?

Thanks,
Ahmed


01:11 pm April 3, 2015

What do you reckon they should do? Think about:

- What should happen in the Sprint Review to planned work that remains undone
- How the cause of the problem can be identified and remedied in the Sprint Retrospective, e.g.:
- how much unplanned work or waste is being incurred
- whether Product Backlog items are sufficiently refined
- how future Sprint Planning sessions might be conducted so forecasting is more realistic


04:00 pm April 3, 2015

+1 to what Ian asked.

I would recommend taking on less work (what Ian said about conducting sprint planning to make forecasting more realistic).


I would also hope the retrospective got to a good level of discussion on why the items aren't being finished. Is there a clear definition of done? Are they working on other projects 'at the same time'? do they have the tools to finish the work? are there dependencies preventing them from completing the work?

your best bet is to take the question to the team and figure out what you can all do about it, to get better at forecasting (or removing impediments).


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