Sprint Chow

What this snack represents

Optimism-forward blend with a smoky carry-over finish. For teams that start every sprint with confidence and end with archaeology.

Plain English: Sprint planning fails when capacity, dependencies, and hidden work are not made visible.

Formula: 2h planning × team size + carryover adjustment

What this teaches: Capacity Planning, Carryover, Hidden Work.

Why teams underestimate it

The shelf label works because the cost is usually hidden across clarification, review, context switching, QA, and follow-up decisions. BarkBowl makes those ingredients visible before the work is treated as free.

Time formula

2h planning × team size + carryover adjustment

Worked example

One serving of Sprint Chow is currently modeled at 16 hours, or 16 person-hours. Multiply servings when the work repeats, spreads across more people, or needs another review cycle.

Warning label

Not a substitute for prioritization.

Evidence needed

Before committing this snack, collect an owner, a reason, a time formula, a rollback or no-op alternative, and a short explanation of what the receipt does and does not prove.

How to reduce the cost

Capacity Calculator Chews

No-op alternative

If evidence, authority, or capacity is missing, the mature move may be to record a no-op decision and revisit when the missing ingredient exists.

What this teaches

• Capacity Planning
• Carryover
• Hidden Work

Related lesson

capacity-planning

Related field report

capacity-planning

Related glossary terms

Capacity Planning, Carryover, Hidden Work

Related blueprint

Decision record starter · Open Blueprint Gallery

Copy decision-record starter

Decision: Consider Sprint ChowTime formula: 2h planning × team size + carryover adjustmentEvidence: [link or owner]
No-op alternative: [what happens if we do not act]
Boundary: This is a draft for human review, not an approval.
Reviewed at UTC: [timestamp]

Boundary note

This snack produces draft learning and time-burn evidence only; it does not approve fixes, validate credentials, train models, or certify safety.

Dogfooding notes

Exercises product snapshotting, time totals, TTL refresh, telemetry, learning translation, and checkout record creation.