Midway through a two-week sprint, an agile team realizes that the features cannot be delivered within the sprint. The team determines that another week will be required to complete all committed…

Question

Options

• APlan for overtime, and include the effort as part of the estimation.
• BIncrease team velocity to deliver more story points.
• CIdentify the reason for over-commitment to the sprint and create an action plan for the following
• DAdd resources to assist with sprint execution.

• A
  11% (3)
• B
  4% (1)
• C
  81% (22)
• D
  4% (1)

Explanation

Mid-sprint over-commitment is a process problem, not a resource or effort problem. The agile response is to understand why it happened (poor estimation, unexpected complexity, unclear scope) and use that insight to improve future sprint planning. This reflects the continuous improvement pillar of agile. Overtime (A) is unsustainable and masks the root cause. 'Increasing velocity' (B) is not an actionable decision - velocity emerges from team performance and cannot simply be commanded. Adding resources mid-sprint (D) violates sprint stability and, per Brooks' Law, often slows the team further due to onboarding overhead.

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