Repository Intelligence for Engineering Leaders (opens in new tab)  🔀JJ

There's a recurring debate in agile circles about why teams miss deadlines. The usual suspects: bad estimates, too many columns in Jira, missing WIP limits, the wrong metrics. The fixes that follow are predictable. Reconfigure the board. Add a Cycle Time chart. Apply Little's Law. Run a retrospective about why the sprint went sideways — again. These interventions aren't wrong. But they're downstream of the actual problem. The Board Shows What Refinement Produced A Scrum board is a mirror. It ...