If the sprint duration is too long, then the completed features reaching in the hands of customers takes longer resulting in delayed revenue.
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The best answers are voted up and rise to the top. Stack Overflow for Teams — Collaborate and share knowledge with a private group. Create a free Team What is Teams? Learn more. How long should an Agile Sprint be? Ask Question. Asked 10 years, 6 months ago. Active 5 years, 3 months ago. Viewed 61k times. Improve this question. Montag 3 3 silver badges 15 15 bronze badges. I edited your question. Add a comment. Active Oldest Votes. I can see couple of influencing factors: Sprints come bundled with some additional time cost meetings, plannings, demo, free day also?
Sprints should deliver. If you choose too short sprints, some of them will be dummy ones: with sprint goal not achieved, with almost nothing interesting to show on demo, sprint goal will be a stub itself and retrospectives will tend to be dull.
In other words, sprint will fail to deliver. If you choose too long sprints, you will probably notice: overcrowded demo, too many goals per sprint and retrospectives where nobody remember what happened at the begining of the sprint.
Client will be "flooded" with features once the sprint is over, so sprints are not frequent agile enough. There should be no delays between sprints. Do the demo, retrospective, backlog evaluations, day off if there is such rule planning meeting and start the next sprint.
You can probably eliminate bugs in sprint time, make deployment easier and regarding PO's: they should have tasks for the next sprint prepared already, shouldn't they? Improve this answer. Bartosz Rakowski Bartosz Rakowski 2, 13 13 silver badges 23 23 bronze badges. Given the size of the project and company, it may be impossible to have the backlog fully prioritized and rearing to go at the start of each sprint.
Not sure if it is not a better idea to start such sprint anyway. Well, I don't have enough information to judge. Usually a team gets momentum rather by doing more of the technical tasks and removing impediments than by setting sprint length. Bartosz - you made a factual error. The timeboxes for the Scrum ceremonies scale linearly with the length of the Sprint so they should be a now issue.
Show 1 more comment. Does this assume that the sprint has planning, retrospective, and daily standups and demos and all other meetings? Ken Clyne Ken Clyne 4 4 silver badges 5 5 bronze badges. I don't think this works considering that non-agile methodologies like waterfall are essentially sprints of months possibly even up to 2 years for enterprise.
Short sprints from that perspective might hinder adoption. Do you by chance have a link to that study on sprint length? I'd like to check it out, if possible. The recording can be found here rallydev. The question was asked about 20 mins in. The results were gathered and shared with attendees but not published at least not yet. Adrian B Adrian B 3 3 bronze badges. Can you elaborate on why it's best to start with smaller sprints and then increase them later? If possible, please try to back your answer with references.
If references won't apply, such as in this case where the answers are based on your personal experience, you could explain why this approach has worked for you and qualify the answer with your own professional experience. Thanks for participating, and I'm personally looking forward to hearing why this is helpful. I was thinking of the other way round - how did lengthening the sprints work for your project? As the team for the project is usually a newly formed one, they would need to go through the 4 phases of team formation - Forming - Storming - Norming - Performing.
During the first 2 phases the teams productivity is quite low, the main driver being the need to shine vs the team shining This is especially true if there are new-comers to Scrum in the team. In order to make the team uniform and make the team members feel responsible as A ONE, I found it useful to make them feel the whole life cycle of a Sprint as frequent and as early as possible.
Another thing is the PO's view on the product that is in development. The experiences I had, the PO and the Business Stakeholders get a sense of what they want after the first sprints - when they can actually roam around in the product, that is the moment when they come down to Nice, Big, Juicy User Stories or Epics , that would require a longer sprint to produce, that is why they grow a bit to that moment.
As amelvin said, sprints would decrease in size late when the product would be in maintenance, but I would suggest moving to Kanban at that moment. PS: Sorry for multiple resplies — Adrian B. But then I don't believe there's a universal solution which suits everyone. Pawel Brodzinski Pawel Brodzinski The information on that site about sprint duration, is not correct if you have a look at the scrum guide from scrum.
While 2 weeks is the usually recommended size, extraordinary circumstances may require that it extends UP TO 30 days. Thanks for pointing that out, JorgeCarvalho. I went ahead and included a quote from the Scrum Guide. Community Bot 1. Ryan Martens Ryan Martens 4 4 silver badges 12 12 bronze badges.
Technically, is it possible to deliver product in short iteration? In some project we need to implement complex algorithm for example, before showing it to stakeholders. Doctor Web Doctor Web 4 4 silver badges 9 9 bronze badges. Shorter Sprints generally Trump longer Sprints. From a much longer blog post Shorter Trumps Longer Pros Since the team has more but shorter retrospectives they have more opportunities to try smaller changes. This also provides more opportunities to learn.
More frequent Sprint Reviews give the Product Owner more feedback and more frequent opportunities to change. This should largely eliminate the need for the Product Owner to ever ask for a change i.
Impediments and Slowdowns are highlighted more quickly, since the team is expected to get the feature s to done by the end of every Sprint. This forces the team to come to terms with things that are slowing them down. Forces teams to do a better of job of slicing Stories or Features into smaller chunks.
This increases visibility and gives the Product Owner better control over prioritization and deprioritization. Caveat this is true at first however most teams are able to get the hang of it after three to four Sprints. Working in one week Sprints can be more stressful at first. Are team members collaborating?
This involves watching both individual behaviour and team member interactions. A great ScrumMaster is constantly finding new ways to improves these events and make them more engaging. The role has a great deal more depth and, unlike a traditional manager, you have no power to enforce your intentions. If you make the role work well, it will be through understanding people, empathy, understanding systems, some negotiation, and myriad of other skills.
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Scrum Team. Sprint Goal. A key consideration when deciding Sprint length is risk tolerance. Longer Sprints are riskier for predictability and cost. Also, industries with stable requirements and established technologies get away with longer Sprints. Does this sound as if you needed to review the length of your Sprint periodically?
Nothing could be further from the truth. Reviewing the length of Sprint should occur incidentally , if at all, since it resets tracking at the initiative level.
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