<ul><li>The real secret to sprint effectiveness isn’t about checking every box by Sprint Review day; it’s about delivering consistent value while maintaining team sanity and stakeholder trust.</li><li>Perfect sprint completion itself is a vanity metric.</li><li>Instead of playing a weird game of capacity chicken with your sprint, teams should estimate work more reasonably and plan for 80% capacity and acknowledge that if everything is P0 then nothing is.</li><li>Measure what matters including value delivered to customers, velocity, team sustainability, prediction accuracy, and quality of output.</li><li>Agile ceremonies should offer opportunities for genuine collaboration and improvement.</li><li>Conversations need to be had with stakeholders that clarify the new way of working.</li><li>Stay focused on planning based on reality, delivering consistent value, measuring true metrics of success, learning and improving, and managing expectations well.</li><li>The real win will be the maximal value you provided your customers along the way.</li></ul>

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