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  • What's a Student Syndrome? They give up and wait for the teacher to give them the answer? Commented Feb 11, 2014 at 11:20
  • @JeffO Student Syndrome is the name for when people look at a task, determine how long they think it will take (or how long they are told they have to work on it), and then begin working on it at the last possible minute to complete it on time. In project scheduling, this is problematic if there are buffers built into the schedule to account for problems that may arise in the task. Commented Feb 11, 2014 at 11:24
  • See also Parkinson's Law. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parkinson's_law Commented Feb 11, 2014 at 11:26
  • Are they missing stories on every sprint? Commented Feb 11, 2014 at 11:28
  • Most Sprints they miss a story entirely, but in all Sprints they don't do all the stories 100%. Commented Feb 11, 2014 at 13:04