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[VLOG] How To Create an Outcome Driven Sprint Goal

February 29, 2020

Hello awesome people. I am sorry I have been away for a while since I've been busy with stuff. Today's video is the continuation of my video: What Is The Definition of Done In Scrum | How Is It Different To Acceptance Criteria. Just like my previous video, many of my future videos will be referring back to this video.

Other than the Definition of Done, the Sprint Goal is the other most important aspect of Scrum. It is interesting to see that many Scrum Teams do not have any Sprint Goal, which makes their Sprint no different to a mini-waterfall. It is also interesting to see in the market that many people still think that the purpose of Sprint is to complete as many Sprint Backlog items as possible, which leads to a Sprint Goal that is output oriented and makes the team look like a feature factory. Often times I see many Scrum Teams spend a lot of time during Sprint Planning to figure out how they can fit in as many Sprint Backlog items as possible. 

Being output driven or a feature factory can make many Scrum Teams have no soul in their Sprint. Today's video is about how to come up with an outcome driven Sprint Goal. I hope today's video is helpful for your team, so they will be more inspired every Sprint. Please help us spread today's video, so that we can help more Scrum Teams to get out of the feature factory. I thank you for your continuous support.

 


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Comments (4)


Bhaskar
09:23 am March 4, 2020

I liked the video especially factory output. This happens in service based companies trying to achieve output rather than value added, which is not be blamed anybody as expectations set from clients itself will be in that way. Question comes is how to tackle in these kind of situations


Joshua Partogi
01:25 pm March 26, 2020

It's an opportunity for the Scrum Master to mentor client. The first step would be to share this video to the client and see their reaction.


Alessandro Bignami
12:45 pm April 23, 2020

Great video, it explains perfectly why it is necessary to have an outcome sprint goal. I'll share it with my team and people from the Company for which we work.


Joshua Partogi
11:54 am May 19, 2020

Thanks for helping spreading out this video @alessandro_bignami:disqus .