# Sprint check — App squad, Cycle 53

Day 16 of 16 of the current cycle, counted in issues. Source: DevStats MCP.

## 1. Verdict

**On track, and already finished: 100% done with 0% left in To Do or In Progress, on the last day of the cycle.** Nothing to rescue. The interesting finding is about how the cycle was filled, not about how it ends (section 5).

Two checks behind the verdict:

- Done is 100% and the cycle is fully elapsed, so there is no gap to the calendar.
- Our own history says a normal cycle for this squad completes 62.4% of what it commits (last 90 days: 31%, 89.4%, 66.7%). This one is far above our normal.

## 2. Forecast

**Will land**
- Everything in Cycle 53: 162 issues, all Done.
- DEV-4334 "Rewrite prompt library prompts" is the only issue in progress in the squad. It spent 9h 30m in In Progress and moved to In Review this morning. Our average issue takes 3d 1h once started, so it is well inside normal.

**At risk**
- Nothing. Aging Issues returned 0 items.

**Will not make it**
- Nothing.

One thing to check by hand: DEV-4334 is In Review, but none of the squad's 3 open PRs is for it (#7539 SUP2-965, #7545 SUP2-962, #7547 SUP2-969). Either its PR lives in a repository this squad does not track, or the review has not started. An issue in review with no visible PR is further from done than its status says.

## 3. Descope today

Nothing to pull out. One thing to stop: do not add new work to Cycle 53 today. Anything started on the last day lands in the next cycle anyway, and adding it here only inflates this cycle's count.

## 4. Message to stakeholders

> Cycle 53 closes tomorrow with everything in it done: 162 issues, nothing left in progress or to do. Nothing changes in what you were expecting from this cycle. The only item still moving is the prompt library rewrite (DEV-4334), which is in review now and carries into next week.

## 5. For the next planning

**Fix the commitment at planning, and count added work separately.**

| Cycle | Committed | Completed | Completion |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cycle 50 | 29 | 9 | 31% |
| Cycle 51 | 66 | 59 | 89.4% |
| Cycle 52 | 36 | 24 | 66.7% |
| Cycle 53 (active) | 162 in the cycle | all | 100% |

Two things in this history do not fit a team that plans a cycle and then delivers it:

- Completion does not follow commitment size. The smallest commitment (29) had the worst result (31%) and the largest (66) the best (89.4%). Size is not what makes a cycle succeed or fail here.
- Cycle 53 holds 162 issues, 2.5 times the largest commitment of the last 90 days, and every one of them is done. A cycle does not end at exactly 100% with nothing left over unless issues are being added to it as they are finished. The cycle is recording work, not planning it.

That is why planning accuracy is 62.4% while the team is clearly delivering. For the next cycle: agree on the committed list on day one, keep it near what the squad has actually completed from a commitment (9, 59 and 24 in the last three cycles), and tag everything that enters later as added scope. Then a mid-sprint check can tell you something, and so can the planning accuracy number.

## Notes on the data

- Sprint Progress by story points returned 0 for Cycle 53: this squad does not estimate in points, so everything here is counted in issues.
- Support and GTM have no active sprint ("No active sprints found"), so App is the only squad this check can run for today.
- Daily WIP for the last 14 days shows 8 open branches and 70 open tasks. The tool returns one number for the period, so it cannot say whether work in flight is growing or shrinking. I did not use it for the verdict.