Hi Team,
I just joined a Scrum Support team and they’ve really not been setting sprint goals even though they’re high performing. What will be the best approach for me to propose sprint goals or is it okay to just let it go since they’re performing enough and completing the tasks we commit to at the start of each sprint.
Thanks
Well, Sprint Goals are not about team performance.
The Sprint Goal is how you communicate to the customers, users, stakeholders just why this Sprint adds value. The Sprint Goal is also a stepping stone towards your overall Product Goal.
At the Sprint Review, you are looking at Product-market fit really carefully, using the Sprint and Product Goals as lenses, and working out – with the customers and stakeholders – if the market has changed, so the direction of the Product needs to change too.
So – perhaps you could think of those Goals as being about *product* performance, not team performance.
If that doesn’t make sense in your context, then it’s okay – just there’s not a lot of point in using Scrum. You might want to look at the Kanban Method (where there are metrics to help continuous improvement, or even do something else.
That won’t be Scrum, but that’s okay. If your customers don’t care about your Sprint and Product Goals, they don’t care if you do Scrum, either….