A Scrum team completes an Increment. What happens next?
If the answer includes, “It waits”, the team may have uncovered a wider problem in the delivery system.
Choose a recently completed Product Backlog item (PBI) and follow its journey beyond the team.
Where did it go after it met the Definition of Done?
Continue reading Where does completed work actually wait?A Scrum team can be highly productive and still struggle to deliver value quickly.
The team may complete its Sprint Goals, maintain a healthy Product Backlog and regularly produce a usable Increment. Yet that work might then wait days or weeks before reaching the people who need it.
The problem may not be within the team. It may be the wider system around it.
Continue reading A productive team can still belong to an inefficient system
