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Re: [scrumdevelopment] Quick Poll: How long to sprint?

the preferred sprint duration is the one that works best for your team :)

On Thu, May 8, 2008 at 8:45 AM, Peter Stevens <peterstev@...> wrote:
> Following the discussions on this blog and elsewhere, the questions poses
> itself - what is the prefered sprint duration?
Thu May 8, 2008 3:52 pm

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Hi everyone, Following the discussions on this blog and elsewhere, the questions poses itself - what is the prefered sprint duration? I've set up a Quick Poll:... 		Peter Stevens
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3:45 pm

the preferred sprint duration is the one that works best for your team :)...
Dmitry Beransky
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3:52 pm

It is generally the longest period of time that you can shield the team from changing any work. For a lot of organizations this is extremely difficult, so...
Ben Scheirman
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4:49 pm

Really there are two forces that determine the sprint length <--Force that tries to elongate--> Getting to "Done" in a sprint and how hard it is in certain...
Ash Tengshe
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5:17 pm

... To me, there are at least three more forces at work that shorten the sprint length: - Closure. A sprint end feels good, because you finished another sprint...
Ilja Preuss
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7:46 pm

1 week 1 (3%) 2 weeks 9 (34%) 3 weeks 10 (38%) 4 weeks 3 (11%) 1 month 2 (7%) longer, but fixed 0 (0%) variable length 1 (3%) After 12 hours and 26 votes: a...
Peter Stevens
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4:13 am

3-week sprints have become very popular over the last 12-18 months. Before then most teams considered them odd ;) Seriously, it's a recent change for most...
Mike Cohn
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4:16 am

I like to start with 1 week sprints and when the team stops complaining, I move it out to 2 weeks. I could see 3 week sprints being good for longer projects,...
Patrick Mee
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7:40 am

With one of the teams I used to work with we did the progression from 4 weeks to 2 weeks and then to 3 weeks. It was a little bit like goldilocks and the...
brett_a_bernstein
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12:42 pm

... To what do you attribute that tendency? Were I to speculate I might hypothesize that that represents the "sweet spot" between maximal inspect and adapt...
James S. Fosdick, PMP...
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10:18 pm

(responding to Ash, Ilja, all) ... Add to those "Reliability of Commitment". For a shorter sprint it seems easier to make a commitment and really mean it. But...
PaulOldfield1@...
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10:12 am

Good point!...
Ilja Preuss
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7:05 pm

Ok now that we have the list increasing...I'll throw in one more :) Data points for velocity. If you have a 4 month project and do 4 week sprints, by the time...
Ash Tengshe
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10:03 pm

Many of you mentioned that shorter sprint reduces possibility of scope changes and you could follow the rule of no scope changes in the active Sprint. It is...
kthakkar
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12:13 pm

Hi everyone, The poll has expired and you can see the results and a summary of the comments on this list under: And the winner is... ...
peterstev
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7:01 pm

IMO the most agile answer is "whatever length works for the team provided it's not longer than 30 days". In general I base my sprint length recommendations on...
James S. Fosdick, PMP...
jsfosdickcsp
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10:14 pm

If I may offer a slight variation on this: "Whatever is the shortest practical length for the team."...
davenicolette
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11:45 am

... If "practical" means "established by practice" (rather than through a thought experiment), I agree with this definition. I fear, though, that this...
Dmitry Beransky
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1:45 pm

... Yes. ... Yes. ... Yes. ;-)...
davenicolette
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