During a Sprint, what should be the Scrum Team's focus?

The Scrum Team's primary focus during a Sprint is to work on the items in the Sprint Backlog. This backlog is a subset of the product backlog and consists of selected items that the team commits to completing during the Sprint. The purpose of this focused effort is to deliver a potentially shippable product increment at the end of the Sprint, thereby ensuring that the team makes tangible progress toward the overall goals of the project.

By concentrating on the items in the Sprint Backlog, the Scrum Team enhances collaboration, encourages self-organization, and promotes accountability, all essential tenets of the Scrum framework. This focus allows the team to leverage their collective skills, work closely together, and adapt as needed based on their daily Scrum meetings and ongoing feedback.

Other activities such as creating comprehensive documentation, reviewing the entire project plan, or conducting interviews with stakeholders may be important in the broader context of project management, but they are not the primary focus during the Sprint. The core intention of the Sprint is to produce deliverable outputs efficiently and effectively, and working on the Sprint Backlog items directly aligns with that goal.