--- title: Integrating FMEA into Sprint Planning | daily.dev description: Part 3 of a series on applying Failure Mode and Effects Analysis (FMEA) to test automation, this installment focuses on embedding FMEA into sprint planning. It... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/integrating-fmea-into-sprint-planning-fftgwpdbr twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Integrating FMEA into Sprint Planning | daily.dev og:description: Part 3 of a series on applying Failure Mode and Effects Analysis (FMEA) to test automation, this installment focuses on embedding FMEA into sprint planning. It... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/integrating-fmea-into-sprint-planning-fftgwpdbr og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/FfTGWPDBr.png og:image:alt: Integrating FMEA into Sprint Planning og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Integrating FMEA into Sprint Planning **[Medium](https://daily.dev/sources/medium_js)** · 6 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary Part 3 of a series on applying Failure Mode and Effects Analysis (FMEA) to test automation, this installment focuses on embedding FMEA into sprint planning. It walks through a six-step process: listing automation work for the sprint, identifying failure modes per item, scoring and calculating Risk Priority Numbers (RPN), prioritizing work by RPN tier (Critical/High/Low), adding tier-reduction goals to sprint objectives, and re-scoring in retrospectives. Concrete examples show how to score flaky tests, missing API coverage, and test data issues, then order them by risk impact rather than story count. A sprint planning checklist ties the workflow together. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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