Scrum Event  'Development Team' Time Proportions

Jan 26th 2014 (updated Jun 24th 2026)

I wondered how much time a Scrum Team spends on Scrum activities so I put the data together in a simple table. Which quickly demonstrates that a good rule of thumb is to plan up to 70% of the development teams time.

**Product Development would normally be less, for instance when allowing a Sprint buffer, training, completing retrospective items, *etc.

Based on UK Avg Paid hours worked 2013 - Science, research, engineering and technology professionals