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Re: Sprint Zero

--- In scrumdevelopment@yahoogroups.com, "markus_hjort"
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> --- In scrumdevelopment@yahoogroups.com, namgyal damdul <damdulin@>
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> > Hi,
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> > I am pretty new to Scrum. Can anyone tell me what is Sprint Zero,
> when and why was it introduced?
>

I have a sneaking feeling that someone was pressed about his
use of Scrum when he did something that had no obvious business
value at the start, and he invented "Oh, that was Sprint Zero!"
to get the peasants with the pickaxes away from his doorstep.

... and then others thought that was a great answer and started
saying it, too. ... and then it became part of the culture.





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... James, talk with William Pietri and Arlo Belshee. I believe that both of them have teams capable of releasing on a daily basis. - George -- ... * George...
George Dinwiddie
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Sep 15, 2008
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... I have a sneaking feeling that someone was pressed about his use of Scrum when he did something that had no obvious business value at the start, and he...
aacockburn
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Sep 16, 2008
2:37 am

... I've heard "iteration zero" used in two ways. 1. The iteration where a teams gets its development environment (e.g., repository, database servers, etc.)...
Dave Smith
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Sep 16, 2008
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I'm actually in the middle of what could be called a Sprint Zero at the moment, though I wouldn't call it a Sprint 0 as it's really just preparation and...
Richard Banks
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Sep 16, 2008
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Here's a brief overview of our "Iteration Zero" Pre-planning: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/scrumdevelopment/message/30044 Mark ... when and why was it...
woynam
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Sep 17, 2008
3:44 pm

Exactly ... sprint 0 has become a phrase misused to describe the planning that occurs prior to the first sprint ... and since planning creates artifacts that...
Ken Schwaber
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Sep 16, 2008
4:07 am

Sprint 0: The "Hello World" of Scrum...
Sam Hahn
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Sep 17, 2008
5:48 am

can any one guide wht is sprint 0 and wht should be the topic of sprint 0 of my thesis????plz guide me ?? ... <damdulin@>...
Furqan
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Sep 17, 2008
7:03 am

Here's a blog I wrote on Sprint Zero last year. Give it a look: http://danube.com/blog/dan_rawsthorne/sprint_zero Dan Rawsthorne, PhD, CST Senior Coach, Danube...
Dan Rawsthorne
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Sep 17, 2008
10:35 am

I'm just about to embark on a sprint 0 and reading the scrum breakfast article encompasses a lot of what we are doing. However in my environment I have to...
Thomas Reynolds
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Sep 19, 2008
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While pre-planning should always be time boxed, I don't believe the duration must be limited to the traditional sprint length, e.g. 3 weeks. When we kick off a...
woynam
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Sep 19, 2008
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... scope. ... introduced? ... Pardon my ignorance, but why use a "sprint zero" at all? Isn't it a sprint with a planning session, a period of development, a...
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Sep 19, 2008
9:13 pm

In Sprint Zero, you're not planning for Sprint 1. That's handled in the Sprint 1 Planning Meeting. No, in the pre-planning phase you're attempting to lay out...
woynam
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Sep 19, 2008
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I disagree with this. As is stated below, this is not scrum. In fact, it looks like a waterfall to me, with just a few added agile touches. I think the purpose...
Dan Rawsthorne
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Sep 19, 2008
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... fact, it ... believe the ... select ... days. For a ... have ... release ... contract ... in its ... sprint 0 ... currently ... collaboration with ... here...
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You said: Dan, I read your blog entry on Sprint Zero, and it sounds to me like something you would only rarely institute, i.e., for a team that has never...
Dan Rawsthorne
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Sep 20, 2008
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I know that the term "Sprint Zero" sounds all agile-ish, and I have used the term myself. However, we should all just admit that what is being done in "Sprint...
Huet Landry
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Nov 12, 2008
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Hello, Huet. On Wednesday, November 12, 2008, at 5:55:54 AM, you ... Yes, except with completely different outputs ... Ron Jeffries www.XProgramming.com ...
Ron Jeffries
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Nov 12, 2008
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That's not my definition of Sprint Zero... to me it's doing everything you need to do to be able to develop "real code" the first day of Sprint One. This...
Dan Rawsthorne
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Nov 13, 2008
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My understanding matches Dan's below I've been trying to reconcile these two difference notions of "sprint 0" and wonder if perhaps Scott Ambler has...
Brad Appleton
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Nov 23, 2008
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... I do hear this kind of thing a lot, but it smells like procrastination to me. What innovation is next, the 31 day Sprint? --mj...
Michael James
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Nov 23, 2008
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... I have discussed the 'Sprint zero' matter a couple of times. The drawbacks seemed higher than the benefits: - Sprint zero does not produce working code -...
Andreas Schliep
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Nov 24, 2008
11:42 am

... just forgot to say: these actions apply to _all_ Sprints after 1 as well ;)...
Andreas Schliep
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Nov 24, 2008
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I think getting into a controversy on whether or not we should have Sprint 0 or -1 or whatever (leading to discussion on Sprint -5 :)) is a bit sophistic. ...
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Nov 25, 2008
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... My experience with "Sprint 0" or "Iteration 0" is very similar to Dan's as he described it in his previous post. Some amount of the "pre-planning" that...
Brad Appleton
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Sep 28, 2008
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The process of pre-planning has been described in numerous books and articles about Scrum and agile. This is similar to the backend stuff we stick in the...
woynam
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Sep 22, 2008
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I'm puzzled. I always thought that agileists were quite happy to have an up-front visioning activity, wherein an overall vision of the system is established,...
Roy Morien
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Sep 22, 2008
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I agree. While it may be possible to hit the ground running for some projects, and/or some organizations, there are plenty of scenarios that may require a bit...
woynam
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Sep 22, 2008
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To give an ongoing example of "Sprint Zero", I'm involved in a shortish (~3 months) project and yesterday we had our planning day for getting the project...
Petri Heiramo
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Sep 23, 2008
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No, my comment about the waterfall was because of the extent of the stories that had been developed at the beginning. There were more than 2-3 sprints worth of...
Dan Rawsthorne
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