Key Principle: Keep Sprints Short
Explore the benefits of keeping Agile sprints short, typically 1 to 3 weeks, to enhance responsiveness to requirements, build stakeholder trust, and accelerate continuous improvement. This lesson helps you understand how short sprints increase accountability, reveal risks early, encourage automation, and deliver frequent working software, thereby improving project outcomes and team motivation.
We'll cover the following...
We'll cover the following...
- 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 ...