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Does it bother anyone else that we use the word "sprint" in agile? Does it make sense to always be "sprinting"? Personally, the idea of floating down a waterfa

• mindcrime 3y ago
  Does it bother anyone else that we use the word "sprint" in agile? FWIW, that's not a universal thing. A lot of people use "iteration" in preference to "sprint" - but sadly, not enough. I think the term "sprint" should be abolished personally. Does it make sense to always be "sprinting"? Absolutely not. And it may be "just a metaphor" but I think the metaphors we use matter. And you absolutely can't be "always sprinting". It's an absurd notion.
• topaz0 3y ago
  Maybe the next methodology should be "lazy river" or similar.
• broast 3y ago
  The part where you are floating is not the waterfall
  • asow92 3y ago
    Touché, but can we call standup the splash zone?
• crazygringo 3y ago
  It's meant to be a metaphor only for distance, not for speed. In running/swimming, the short events are called sprints. In contrast with long-distance events. Does anybody have a better metaphor, a noun word that suggests a short distance, in contrast against a long distance? (E.g. "block" or "jump" or "hop" don't really work because none of them inherently communicate the idea of shorter -- a hop is longer than a step, for instance.)
  • rawgabbit 3y ago
    Interval?
• crabmusket 3y ago
  We used to use "sprint" by default. We started using Linear, and they call them "cycles", which prompted me to reconsider and now we've adopted that.