Chapter 7
What Happens When You Don’t Use Sprint Goals?
“The problem with specifying the method along with the goal is one of diminished control. Provide your people with the objective and let them figure out the method.”
—Captain L. David Marquet
By now, at least on an abstract level, the importance of Sprint Goals should be evident. But what will happen in your Scrum Teams if you don’t use Sprint Goals or if you apply them the wrong way?
This chapter discusses what happens when you go down the rabbit hole of working without Sprint Goals or misapplying them.
Sprint Loses Its Purpose and the Sprint Backlog Becomes the Goal
The purpose of the Sprint is to deliver a Product Increment that meets the Sprint Goal and the Definition of Done. Imagine ...
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