Sprints and Stories

We’re probably doing stories wrong. We pack technical tasks into stories and treat them like user stories. User stories should be user centric, capturing a feature we want to bake into our product / solution.

This is a problem, because when we track many things in the sprint which do not have direct customer value, we lead ourself to believe that there’s progress in the sprint, but there’s none.

The sprint goal is always only to provide value to the customer. So while we are busy finishing those technical stories, we trick ourself to believe that the sprint is going all-right.

Another, deeper problem might be that we essentially treat our technical stories equal to the customer stories. Technical stories more often than not do not generate value. So we loose focus in the sprint. The focus should always be the customer value.