Succeeding with Sprint Goals Empowering Teams with Better Ways of Delivering Value

Building great software requires outstanding teamwork across multiple disciplines. All teams and participants need to align behind clear goals that deliver real value (outcomes)—not just lots of features (output). Sprint Goals are the most powerful tool Scrum/Agile teams have to pursue high-value outcomes, but many Scrum Teams avoid them, misuse them, or struggle to apply them. Succeeding with Sprint Goals covers all you need to define, create, and execute on sprint goals that deliver outstanding value to customers and the business.

Leading Scrum practitioner Maarten Dalmijn bridges the gap between theory and practice, offering a fresh, unique, and cohesive perspective on the Scrum framework that will be valuable to every product owner, product manager, Scrum Master, agile coach, and technology executive. Students will learn why Sprint Goals are so important, how to use them throughout the sprint and at review and retrospective; how to overcome common obstacles to success; and how to use them to build high-performing teams.

As Dalmijn presents critical Scrum and product management fundamentals through the lens of the Sprint Goal, he helps you move your entire organization from low-value "feature factories" to high-value outcomes.

Part 1: Why Do Goals Matter?

1. Dealing with Complexity and Uncertainty

2. Commander’s Intent

3. Outcomes over Output

Part 2: Scrum and the Significance of Sprint Goals

4. Scrum is Not Enough to Deliver Great Software

5. The Important Role of Sprint Goals in Scrum

Part 3: Crafting and Working with Sprint Goals

6. What Happens When You Don’t Work with Sprint Goals?

7. Crafting Sprint Goals

8. Using Sprint Goals During the Sprint

9. Sprint Goals at the Sprint Review

10. Sprint Goals at the Retrospective

Part 4: Common Obstacles to Sprint Goals and How to Deal with Them

11. Sprint Goals Don’t Cover Our Whole Sprint

12. Poor Product Management Foundation

13. Sprint Goals Cover Multiple Competing Priorities

14. Difficult Stakeholders

Part 5: Leveraging Sprint Goals to Build High-Performing Teams

15. Intent-based Leadership

16. Blurring the Roles

17. Scaling Scrum without Frameworks

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