From burn-down chart to burn-out risk: the upside down world of sprint metrics, and stranger things

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Here is a common anti-pattern emerging in scrum teams especially if they use Jira or other tools to measure sprint metrics, present these metrics during sprint review or if the team is worried more about “showing” rather than “doing”. This anti-pattern usually evolves like this. At the beginning of the sprint the team…