From my experience in consulting and internal, there are two major things you can do. 1) Use objective KPIs + encourage a culture of admitting, taking responsi

From my experience in consulting and internal, there are two major things you can do. 1) Use objective KPIs + encourage a culture of admitting, taking responsibility for, and being forgiven for failure Failing to admit failure is incredibly toxic to ongoing corporate functioning, and a culture that doesn't allow for it endlessly moves goalposts until there is success (by some metric) without motion (by objective metrics). 2) Don't allow anyone to overscope sprints If all the "team" can accomplish is a "Hello World" in the next week, then that's the goal. Better to be honest than slide down the slippery slope of lying to ourselves.