💡 Focus defines how effectively we use our time and effort to achieve team goals and satisfy customer needs. As Steven Covey said, “The main thing is to keep the main thing the main thing”.
✅ Encouraged behaviors #
- Prioritizing the goals the team agreed on above other goals, including individual ones.
- Staying on track during the Sprint with the work agreed on with the team.
- Following the order work as defined by the Product Owner in the Product Backlog.
- Dedicating work time to immediate and close-range work.
- Focusing on completing work.
❌ Discouraged behavior #
- Switching to working on tasks other than the ones the team agreed on (for example, something requested by a stakeholder, or a more interesting task that popped up).
- Continuing to work on items that are no longer important to the customer.
- Spending a lot of time to plan too far in advance (e.g. 5-year plans)
- Having many work-in-progress items.
