# Decide what to do with unfinished sprint work

Illustrative planning brief; no automatic product import.

Illustrative case: an export task was carried over twice. The download works, but filtering remains blocked by an undecided date rule.

## Decision

Accept any independently complete slice; keep date filtering uncommitted until its rule is decided.

## Owned work

- Inspect the current evidence
  - Owner role: Task owner
  - Acceptance evidence: The review distinguishes working download behavior from unfinished filtering.
- Resolve the remaining decision
  - Owner role: Product owner
  - Acceptance evidence: The intended inclusive or exclusive date boundary is recorded.
- Replan the remainder
  - Owner role: Sprint coordinator
  - Acceptance evidence: Only the remaining accepted scope is estimated and considered for commitment.

## Workflow

1. Review the original outcome and what the team can demonstrate today.
2. Choose finish, split, pause or drop, with a reason for the remaining work.
3. Reassess effort and dependency conditions before placing it in the next commitment.

## Judgment

Do not label partial work accepted unless it provides an independently usable outcome that the acceptance owner agrees to.


## Filled illustrative decision

The synthetic carry-over review accepts the working download as an independent slice. Filtering stays unresolved because stakeholders disagree about whether the final date is inclusive. The next sprint does not inherit the entire old task automatically; a named decision owner must settle the date boundary first.


## Workflow questions

### Is carry-over always a failure?

No. The cause may be changed scope or a discovered dependency. The decision should make that cause visible and actionable.

### Should we keep the same estimate?

Reassess the remaining work and uncertainty. Reusing the original estimate can conceal what is already done and what changed.

## Product connection

Record the fresh scope decision when reviewing unfinished TeamBoostAI work instead of treating last sprint’s commitment as current.

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