Your Sprint Backlog

Recall that the whole process of Scrum for Your Life is a chain of events that always tie back to your values. What you do every day may seem removed from your values sometimes, but the chain looks like this:

Values => Vision => Master Backlog => Sprint Plan => Sprint Backlog => Daily Scrum => Daily Tasks

Each step drives the next, so your Daily Tasks are fulfilling your values and your vision. So it’s important as you go through your Daily Scrum to review your Sprint Backlog during the sprint to be sure you are staying on track with your intentions. It’s easy and sometimes necessary to add daily tasks that are not in your Sprint Backlog. Things come up that need immediate attention and displace the priorities on your list. That’s when you need to refer back to your values and vision to remind you of your intentions so you don’t get sucked down a rabbit hole.