We Need a Special Sprint
Some teams that are new to Scrum have trouble moving away from waterfall-style techniques such as phase gates and big upfront planning. Specialized sprints can be appealing to such teams because they model old, familiar processes and behaviors that have been in place for many years. But if any of the following specialized sprints sound familiar or even just tempting, your Scrum team or organization may have underlying issues that you need to work on.
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Sprint Zero - Also called architecture or planning sprints, the intent of this type of sprint is to create a robust plan, often in the form of a product backlog, that the team can use to get started.
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Design Sprints - The result of these sprints is a design output such as ...
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