Chapter 6
The Fundamental Role of Sprint Goals in Scrum
“Goals transform a random walk into a chase.”
—Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
Sprint Goals play a crucial part in Scrum. In Chapter 5, we walked through a high-level explanation of Scrum. In this chapter, we will explore the Scrum framework in more detail through the lens of the Sprint Goal. After reading this chapter, you should understand why the absence of Sprint Goals leads to a crippled version of Scrum.
Technically, you are not doing Scrum when you don’t use Sprint Goals. In fact, the immutability rule in the Scrum Guide states that you are allowed to call something Scrum only when you follow everything in the Scrum Guide to the letter. But let’s put such silly matters aside for now. I ...
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