What would change if you shorten your Sprints? #proscrum
I made similar observations as Kevin E. Schlabach in his blog post
Every time you shorten your iteration length, your team will realize that there are things that are time-consuming and painful.
Shorten your iteration… (Sprint)
http://agile-commentary.blogspot.com/2008/09/shorten-your-iteration.html
I asked my current team (just recently started on a new product):
What would change if we would have 1 week sprints?
I got a couple of: “No good”, “Bad idea”.
- It would be difficult to produce something because we sit so much in meetings
- With this setup it doesn’t work, because we are not always available.
These are great answers with 2 major pains that we need to fix.
Just thinking about shortening your sprints, already helped highlight them…