Use the Sprint Goal as the Control Line
Use a Sprint Goal to decide which project work to protect, defer, or escalate.
The goal is the filter, not the decoration. One objective beats a task pile A project can have dozens of tasks, but a Sprint needs one reason those tasks belong together. The Sprint Goal explains the value to protect. Without it, teams optimize local progress: everyone finishes something, but the project may still miss the outcome. Critical path tells you what cannot slip Once the goal is clear, list the dependent activities that must finish for the goal to be true. The longest chain is your critical path. Work outside that chain may still matter, but it should not steal…
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