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I thought "sprint" was dumb at first, for exactly this reason, it's not a sprint if it's week after week. But over time it's just become jargonized, a term of a

by kortex 4y ago

I thought "sprint" was dumb at first, for exactly this reason, it's not a sprint if it's week after week. But over time it's just become jargonized, a term of art for me. It's just a unit of organization.

samatman 4y ago
My high school mentor loved to say "beware of inconvenient fictions!". The most boring choice would be "section", and boring might be good here. We could borrow from military strategy, not for the first time, and call it a "maneuver". More sporty, and pointing to the repeating nature, would be "round". I wish the word "sprint" could be used for "this will call for an unsustainable amount of effort. we will be calling in dinner a few times. this isn't normal, and can't be normal, and everyone gets to rest after, but it's something we have to do". Instead it's just a way of saying two weeks.
- kortex 4y ago
  Absolutely, I completely agree with every point in this comment. Round would have been a much better and more neutral term for "one unit of agile work". "Sprint" is tantamount to "bursty and not sustainable". Same with "ceremonies", that one bugs me too, though not as much. I still don't know WTF a scrum is however (not even sure that's an agile-specific term). > The fundamental unit of scrum is a small team of people, consisting of a product owner, a scrum master, and developers. The team is self-managing, cross-functional and focuses on one objective at a time: the product goal. [1] Like, what? I feel like I know less after reading that. That just sounds like...a development team with a team lead and a manager. 1 - https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scrum_(software_development) https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scrum_(software_development)
  - samatman 4y ago
    Scrums are a bunch of lads violently fighting over a rugby football. Baffling.

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I thought "sprint" was dumb at first, for exactly this reason, it's not a sprint if it's week after week. But over time it's just become jargonized, a term of a

by kortex 4y ago

samatman 4y ago
My high school mentor loved to say "beware of inconvenient fictions!". The most boring choice would be "section", and boring might be good here. We could borrow from military strategy, not for the first time, and call it a "maneuver". More sporty, and pointing to the repeating nature, would be "round". I wish the word "sprint" could be used for "this will call for an unsustainable amount of effort. we will be calling in dinner a few times. this isn't normal, and can't be normal, and everyone gets to rest after, but it's something we have to do". Instead it's just a way of saying two weeks.
- kortex 4y ago
  Absolutely, I completely agree with every point in this comment. Round would have been a much better and more neutral term for "one unit of agile work". "Sprint" is tantamount to "bursty and not sustainable". Same with "ceremonies", that one bugs me too, though not as much. I still don't know WTF a scrum is however (not even sure that's an agile-specific term). > The fundamental unit of scrum is a small team of people, consisting of a product owner, a scrum master, and developers. The team is self-managing, cross-functional and focuses on one objective at a time: the product goal. [1] Like, what? I feel like I know less after reading that. That just sounds like...a development team with a team lead and a manager. 1 - https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scrum_(software_development) https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scrum_(software_development)
  - samatman 4y ago
    Scrums are a bunch of lads violently fighting over a rugby football. Baffling.