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"Project", "period", "effort", and other words are less techie/jargon sounding and communicate the idea.

• sp332 11y ago
  I think they lose a lot of the meaning. And it's not like the government has any aversion to jargon! If we called it a "cyber-sprint" they'd eat it right up.
  • BWStearns 11y ago
    Agreed, but this wasn't really about Agile methodology as much as the generic notion of fast iteration, which can certainly exist outside a specific agile regimen. From my experience, if your government audience is not already familiar with a piece of jargon, then introducing it risks 1) distracting from what you're actually trying to communicate, 2) giving them a false sense of understanding that will later be unintentionally used as a bludgeon against you or others in some planning meeting (a slightly caricaturish example: "No! Sprints are two days, why are you doing two week sprints!?").
• dragonwriter 11y ago
  "Project" has a lot of baggage with the audience, and implies a lot of things that the approach here is in contrast to, so would be particularly bad. "Period" doesn't connote activity, just time, so its not a great name for an activity. "Effort" is a perfectly generic name for an activity, and carries no connotations related to what is special about this activity; even (perhaps especially to those unfamiliar with its use in software development jargon) "sprint" carries connotations of a fast, focused effort over a short time frame, which is quite appropriate here.