From the course: Agile Foundations
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Commit to sprints
- Most agile teams will deliver in a short iteration that's typically called a sprint. The term sprint is from scrum, which is the most popular agile framework. Now, there's nothing in the agile manifesto that says that a team should deliver in sprints. In principle three, the manifesto only suggests that you should deliver work in a shorter timescale. The reason that most agile teams deliver in sprints is that they're a very well structured way to deliver your product predictably and frequently. Sprints, take all of the phases in a waterfall model and compress it down to a much shorter timeframe. This is usually a two week time box. That's why you'll often hear agile teams talk about their two week sprint. You'll see a little bit more about scrum later on. For now, let's just think about some of the scrum events. These are the different things that happen over the course of your sprint. On the very first day of your sprint, you'll have a sprint planning meeting. This is the time when…
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