What is the impact of assigning a user story to the current sprint before it is refined and “ready”?
- Refining the story has no impact on the sprint; it only impacts initial planning (such as Inception, Sprint Zero, or scoping)
- The team is not allowed to include and count the story points in the velocity burndown for the sprint
- The team won’t agree or have a common understanding, and the story point estimates will be unreliable
- If all user stories aren’t in a ready status, then deadlines will be missed
You Answered: B
Correct Answer: C
All stories that are completed in a sprint are counted towards the team’s velocity measurement. However, skipping refinement means that the team may not have a common understanding of what is needed to successfully the story; this understanding helps ensure that we make accurate estimates. Without accurate estimates the team may not estimate its capacity correctly.
