An Improvement Community Sprint
As you might suspect, ICs perform their work in sprints as well. As with the ETC, each IC can select its own sprint length, but two weeks is the recommended length. An IC that was formed spontaneously will usually serve as its own product owner, with members of the community electing to devote their time to the improvements they are the most passionate about. An IC that was formed in response to an ETC-identified goal, on the other hand, will usually work with a member of the ETC as its product owner to plan a sprint.
That being said, an improvement community does not exist to serve the ETC. It exists to serve its customers: the Scrum development teams who are building products or systems. Although an ETC member ...
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