Sprint Burndown
Daily team discussions help identify blockers early and keep burndown on track.
What is Daily Stand-ups?
This happens when new work is added mid-sprint, causing the team to lose focus.
What is Scope Creep?
Low team stability can cause this metric to fluctuate, making forecasting harder.
What is Burndown Progress?
This principle emphasizes delivering valuable software to customers as early and as often as possible.
What is “Early and Continuous Delivery of Value”?
Agile teams often use this chart to visualize the amount of work remaining versus time in a sprint.
What is a Burndown Chart?
Limiting this helps prevent too many items being worked on at once, improving flow and burndown.
What is Capacity or Work in Progress(WIP)?
By identifying and resolving these early, teams avoid blockers that derail sprint progress.
What are dependencies?
When team membership changes frequently, this metric often becomes less predictable.
What is Sprint Velocity?
This role is responsible for maximizing the value of the product and managing the product backlog.
Who is the Product Owner?
This concept in Lean Portfolio Management prioritizes work based on cost of delay and job size.
What is Weighted Shortest Job First (WSJF)?
This factor can slow down burndown progress when team members are pulled into unrelated work.
What is Sprint Disruption?
By providing a shared understanding of effort and complexity, this practice helps teams set realistic goals and avoid mid-sprint chaos.
What is Story Pointing?
High turnover in a team often reduces this metric, which measures how well commitments are met.
What is Sprint Predictability?
This event occurs at the end of a sprint and focuses on inspecting the increment and adapting the product backlog.
What is the Sprint Review?
This scaling framework organizes multiple Scrum teams around a shared product vision and uses an “Agile Release Train.”
What is SAFe (Scaled Agile Framework)?
This practice ensures stories are well-defined an scoped before the sprint starts, reducing surprises.
What is Backlog Refinement?
This external factor can disrupt sprint flow when priorities suddenly change.
What is Stakeholder Interference?
Instability in roles like Product Owner or Scrum Master can negatively affect this metric tied to delivery consistency.
What is Release Predictability?
This metric measures the amount of work completed in a sprint and helps forecast future performance.
What is Velocity?
This artifact provides transparency into the work planned for the sprint and is updated daily by the team.
What is the Sprint Backlog?
Breaking large stories into smaller, testable pieces helps show steady progress on the burndown chart.
Pulling team members into unrelated tasks during a sprint often leads to this.
What is Context Switching?
When team stability is poor, this metric showing work completed versus planned often suffers.
What is Commitment Reliability?
This concept encourages teams to continuously improve their processes and adapt based on feedback.
What is Inspect and Adapt?
This leadership style empowers teams by removing impediments and fostering collaboration rather than directing tasks.
What is Servant Leadership?