Your Sprint Is Already Broken and You Do Not
You planned a perfect two-week sprint.
Deadline: Friday, 27 March.
Your Indian developer just messaged you that Holi is on March 25th.
Sprint. Delayed.
Not because of bad code. Not because of unclear
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Raymond Jeon
software engineer
Great headline, and the execution risk angle is very real. Teams often discover sprint failure too late because they track completion percentage but ignore aging WIP and assumption drift. We’ve had better early detection by combining flow signals with AI Task Breakdown structure in Plexo (https://plexo.work). Which leading indicator has been most reliable for detecting a broken sprint early?