Sprint stretch target and burn down

Shane Murarenko

Hi there

We have just finished sprint planning and the team has committed to 30 points with a stretch target of 8 points (total 38 points).

Question: should we bring the stretch stories into the current sprint or leave them in the backlog as we don't want the stretch target to impact our burn down chart.

Thanks

Shane

Boris Berenberg

If you don't want them in your burndown, then you should leave them in your backlog. Possibly create a temporary sprint called Stretch which will house this kind of issues during every active sprint. This will also give you the added benefit of showing a scope creep if your employees did manage to outperform their estimation.