Chapter 16
Dealing with Common Sprint Goal Obstacles
“The only way of discovering the limits of the possible is to venture a little way past them into the impossible.”
—Arthur C. Clarke
We’ve spent a lot of time discussing why Sprint Goals matter and why you should be using Sprint Goals. There are also many ways the application of Sprint Goals could go wrong. We spent a lot of time on the theory, but now it’s time to go through examples of all the different ways Sprint Goals can fail and how to best address them.
In the preceding chapters, I touched on some of the dysfunctions that we’ll cover in this chapter. I want to explore some of these dysfunctions even further here to help bridge the gap between theory and practice. We’ll walk through ...
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