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Crafting Sprint Goal in end of Sprint planning

Last post 12:15 am January 24, 2019 by Chris Belknap
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Anonymous
03:22 pm January 23, 2019

I have another basic question 

  • Sprint Goal will be crafted in Sprint planning session by Scrum team 
  • Sprint planning may close even if we plan for initial days of team work may not necessarily identify all the tasks/stories team deliver in entire sprint. 

In above case, how can sprint goal be crafted without knowing entire sprint scope ? 

Please clarify

Ian Mitchell
08:48 pm January 23, 2019

The Scrum Guide does not make any prescription about planning tasks or stories at all. It does say that Sprint Planning addresses two topics, in the second of which the work planned for the first days of the Sprint is decomposed, often to units of one day or less.

Chris Belknap
12:15 am January 24, 2019

Scrum Guide: The Development Team works to forecast the functionality that will be developed during the Sprint. The Product Owner discusses the objective that the Sprint should achieve and the Product Backlog items that, if completed in the Sprint, would achieve the Sprint Goal. The entire Scrum Team collaborates on understanding the work of the Sprint.

The Sprint Goal provides some wiggle room.  If the Development Team forecasts too many Product Backlog items, or determines that not all the Product Backlog items can be completed based on empirical evidence, they may renegotiate with the Product Owner, as long as they don't endanger the Sprint Goal.

 

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