I recently ran a Sprint Goal meme contest on LinkedIn on international cat day. Readers were invited to submit or create their favorite Sprint Goal meme, with bonus points if it contained a cat.
The winner of the contest would receive an autographed copy of my book ‘Driving Value with Sprint Goals - Humble Plans, Exceptional Results’.
There were 105 comments and I went through them all. These are the 10 best Sprint Goal memes according to my personal, subjective liking.
The winner doesn’t contain a cat, but it was so well-made and funny, it still was the best one IMO!
#10. Sprint Goal or Sprinkles? - Submitted by Pedro Aranha
#9 Stop Reading and Get Going - Created by Théo Moussaoui
#8. The Disillusion of Sprint Goals - Submitted by Nishant Sinha
#7 The Power of the Sprint Goal (read in the voice of Darth Vader) - Created by Ryan Kent
#6 I Don’t Always Use a Sprint Goal, But When I Do - Submitted by Arend Kruijt
#5. PO, Are We Having a Sprint Goal? - Created by J. Facundo Dione
#4. The Scroll of Truth for Sprint Goals - Created by Michael Lloyd
#3. When the Sprint Goal Says Finish All Items in the Sprint - Submitted by Nicolas Leroy
#2. The Product Owner at the Steering Wheel - Submitted by Bartosz Rakowski
#1 . The Sprint Wars - Created by Jason Knight
My only gripe is that it doesn’t contain cats, but the dialogue is witty and makes fun of Agile, Scrum, Velocity and Sprint Goals - and even Jeff Sutherland. I’m loving the satire! :)