Sprint Questions

To support our Problem Statement what questions do we need to answer? What would we have to do to fail in that goal?

Requirements

• Estimated time needed: 30 minutes
• Team: Facilitator, Note-taker, Stakeholders

Why should we do this exercise?

We should already have a very short Problem Statement, when we write that we were dreaming big, and not letting the every-day realities get in the way now it's time to dig into that problem a bit more and write some questions that this sprint needs to answer.

Instructions

1. Create a space to list your questions.
2. Offer the following prompts to the team:
   • What questions do we want to answer in this sprint?
   • To solve our problem statement what needs to be true?
   • If in future this project completely failed, what might have caused that?
3. Rephrase the answers into questions, for example:

Q: To get more customers what has to be true? A: They have to trust us. Q: How can we phrase that as a question? A: Will potential customers trust our skills?

Tips

• This exercise may seem negative, but it's a good think to think about potential failures and avoid it happening from the beginning.
• You may not come up with many questions straight away, that's OK, try to add to the list throughout the rest of the sprint.
• Use your sprint questions as a guide when creating ideas.
• Use your sprint questions when you're writing you testing script.