Key Principle: Keep Sprints Short
Learn all the ways that short sprints help make your Agile implementation more effective.
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- Short sprints reduce midstream requirements and increase responsiveness to new requirements
- Short sprints support more responsiveness to customers and stakeholders
- Short sprints build stakeholder trust
- Short sprints support rapid improvement through frequent Inspect and Adapt cycles
- Short sprints help shorten experiments
- Short sprints expose cost and schedule risks
- Short sprints increase team accountability
- Short sprints increase individual accountability
- Short sprints encourage automation
- Short sprints offer a frequent sense of accomplishment
- Short sprints: summary
A corollary to keeping projects small is keeping sprints short. You might think that the small project is good enough on its own. But short sprints of 1–3 weeks support successful projects in numerous ways, as described in the next few sections. ...