{"id":4089,"date":"2025-07-09T12:00:27","date_gmt":"2025-07-09T10:00:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/p4dev.hardscrum.com\/?p=4089"},"modified":"2025-07-09T12:00:27","modified_gmt":"2025-07-09T10:00:27","slug":"timebox","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/p4dev.hardscrum.com\/en\/timebox\/","title":{"rendered":"Timeboxing"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>What is a timebox?<\/h3>\n<p>As the name implies, it is a predefined period of time.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Normal timebox (max. period) for events and meetings. Only the maximum length is defined here. Shorter periods, e.g. for meetings, are permitted. An early end of a meeting results from the fact that all relevant topics have been dealt with.<\/li>\n<li>Hard timebox (<a href=\"https:\/\/p4dev.hardscrum.com\/iteration\/\">Iteration<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/p4dev.hardscrum.com\/cycle\/\">Cycle<\/a>): With these predefined time periods, the minimum and maximum length are equally fixed. They are used for a constant rhythm.<\/li>\n<li>Timebox as an assumption of a time period when estimating a <a href=\"https:\/\/p4dev.hardscrum.com\/backlog-item\/\">Backlog Item<\/a>. This type of timebox is often used when an effort estimate is not (yet) possible for a work package and work is being carried out towards a solution with a previously defined effort. A decision can then be made to cancel, continue or adjust the work package. The timebox corresponds more to an effort limit, i.e. the number of team members also plays a role here (effort = number of team members * working time). Story points can also be used as a predefinition for the \u201ctimebox\u201d in a team with a well-established working speed (<a href=\"https:\/\/p4dev.hardscrum.com\/velocity\/\">velocity<\/a>).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"What is a timebox? As the name implies, it is a predefined period of time. Normal timebox (max. period) for events and meetings. Only the maximum length is defined here. Shorter periods, e.g. for meetings, are permitted. An early end of a meeting results from the fact that all relevant topics have been dealt with.&hellip;","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[104],"tags":[],"translation":{"provider":"WPGlobus","version":"2.10.10","language":"en","enabled_languages":["de","en"],"languages":{"de":{"title":true,"content":true,"excerpt":false},"en":{"title":true,"content":true,"excerpt":false}}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/p4dev.hardscrum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4089"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/p4dev.hardscrum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/p4dev.hardscrum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/p4dev.hardscrum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/p4dev.hardscrum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4089"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/p4dev.hardscrum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4089\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4940,"href":"https:\/\/p4dev.hardscrum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4089\/revisions\/4940"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/p4dev.hardscrum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4089"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/p4dev.hardscrum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4089"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/p4dev.hardscrum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4089"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}