Sprint Goal Is the Planning Filter
Write a Sprint Goal that acts as a tradeoff rule during Sprint Planning.
A Sprint Goal is the planning filter. It answers why the sprint is valuable, gives the Sprint Backlog coherence, and lets the team adapt tasks without losing the outcome. When planning starts with tickets instead of a goal, urgency wins every debate because there is no agreed decision rule. Use the goal to ask three questions: what user or stakeholder outcome matters this sprint, which items directly support that outcome, and what is the smallest Done slice that proves it? Then apply capacity to that slice, not to a disconnected list. This is why the strongest Sprint Goals sound like…
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