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Can someone explain to me the point of a sprint? How about "there is some work available to do, and you do it as you become ready"?

Am I supposed to be working longer than 40 hours this week to finish the work arbitrarily assinged to this sprint, because if so you are absolutely fucking off your rocker.




The point of having sprints is to trade off some utilisation for predictable delivery.

I.e. everything should be easily deliverable within a given sprint, to the point that almost everyone is idle (or working on non-sprint activities) by the end of it.

In practice successful scrum teams might get 90% of their tasks done a sprint - if that's not happening you need to commit to less each sprint (fewer points or fewer estimated days) until it does.




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