A common issue among Scrum teams arises when teams consider what to do with stories which are pulled during the sprint but not completed. What do you do with these stories? Should you consider them failed? Should you ignore them and simply continue to work on them in the following sprint? Should you re-estimate them? Should you give partial credit? Maybe they shouldn’t have been started at all? I have tried all of the above and in my experience one particular strategy has shown itself to be more valuable than the others.
First, let’s examine some different approaches.