There is something about Scrum - 2

...that makes me often think if there is no way that you can avoid corruption in the professional world because so bound is everything together that the more you try to resolve dependencies, the more they crop up in another form, in another aspect or place.

But there is a way to ensure that you do not allow for crafty resource developers or managers or any smart alec from messing with your Sprint plan.

Like so.

Once you set the week of Sprint (2nd column from the left, highlighted with values 1,2,3,4 signifying the week), a Sprint team member will work on on a particular task, you can restrict any work done outside of the planned weeks for the task, as shown above.

Although the Work done will show 8 hours of work done but the effort remaining part will still show the remaining 2 hours because the work was done outside of week 1 - 4 !

And if you draw a productivity chart, per team member, as per their allocated hours on a project / product team then you can track the difference of 1 or 2 hour(s) that was done outside the plan!

But, of course, as long as it is done within the Sprint, it does not make much difference but it does help you put the 'corrupt' manipulators in place ! :)

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