Is it OK to have tasks that are no associated with a user story in your sprint backlog?

Last post 11:46 pm March 15, 2018 by Ian Mitchell

2 replies

08:47 pm March 15, 2018

Hello,

Is it OK to have tasks that are no associated with a user story in your sprint backlog? Should my team not be allowed to do this sort of thing? What are other scum teams do with these tasks?

Thanks,

Paul

Chris Belknap

11:01 pm March 15, 2018

If the Development team feels that the task is needed to accomplish the Sprint Goal, then why would it not be part of the Sprint Backlog? The Sprint Backlog should make all work visible, and there are no rules as to whether or not the work has to be expressed as a story or a task.

Scrum makes no mention of a user story (that comes from XP), although they are a find way to describe a Product Backlog item.

Does your team have a Sprint Goal?

All the best

Ian Mitchell

11:46 pm March 15, 2018

What are other scum teams do with these tasks?

They should implement at least one priority item from the last Sprint Retrospective, and planning tasks for that might possibly be useful.

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