Cutting Corners
Imagine a development team that seems to be moving at the speed of light. No matter how many items are brought into a sprint, they always appear to be accomplished at the end. But as the months pass, that speed exponentially slows down. Production bugs continually interrupt the sprint backlog, often making the sprint goal unachievable, and stakeholders are surprised by the lack of progress after such a fast start and how hard the team is working.
During a sprint retrospective, the development team had a heart to heart. They admitted that their early success was due to some short-sighted architectural decisions that were supposed to be temporary, and that they had been ignoring their definition of done for the past few months. ...
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