From the course: Agile at Work: Driving Productive Agile Meetings
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Breaking the sprint
From the course: Agile at Work: Driving Productive Agile Meetings
Breaking the sprint
- Breaking the sprint is when the team cannot deliver their commitments at the end of the two weeks. This is sometimes called abnormally terminating. If there are old school developers, you might hear the term abnormal ending or abending the sprint. Some teams call it blowing up the sprint. Whatever you call it, the result is usually the same. For whatever the reason, the team decides to not complete what they're working on in the current sprint. Instead, they end the sprint early and start another one the next day. There are a few reasons to blow up the sprint. Maybe the team's estimates were way off. Sometimes developers get peeled off for emergency projects. Maybe the team ran into an obstacle they couldn't overcome. Some of the better reasons have to do with the product owner and the backlog. Maybe the highest value work changed. When this happens, the product owner doesn't want the team delivering something the…
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