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Frederik M. FowlerNavigating Hybrid Scrum Environmentshttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-4164-6_12

12. The Sprint

Frederik M. Fowler1 
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Sunnyvale, CA, USA
 

The first of the Scrum events is the Sprint. It is unlike the others because it is a “container” event . All the other events happen within the Sprint and its time-box.

More than anything else, the Sprint is a time-box. It divides ongoing work into discrete pieces that are no more than 30 days long. At the beginning of each sprint, there is a sprint planning meeting during which the goals of the sprint’s work are agreed on. At the end of the sprint, there is a review of the accomplishments that were made and a discussion of lessons learned. After a sprint ends, a new ...

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