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Sprint

Meaning in product management, with examples

/sprɪnt/nounCore term

In product management, sprint means: A fixed, short period, usually one to four weeks, in which a team builds and finishes an agreed set of work before planning the next one.

In Turkish: sprint, koşu, geliştirme döngüsü

How it is used

A Scrum term used widely across agile teams. A sprint starts with sprint planning and ends with a sprint review and a retrospective. PMs ask what is in this sprint, what slipped to the next sprint and whether a request can fit in the current one.

Example sentences

  1. We can't add this to the current sprint, but it can go into the next one.

  2. Our sprints are two weeks long and start on Wednesdays.

Common collocations

  • sprint planning
  • sprint review
  • current sprint
  • sprint goal
  • two-week sprint
  • backlogAn ordered list of all the work a product team might do, such as features, improvements and bug fixes, with the most important items at the top.
  • story pointsA unit that agile teams use to estimate the relative size of a user story, combining effort, complexity and uncertainty instead of counting hours.
  • retrospectiveA regular meeting at the end of a sprint or project in which the team discusses what went well, what did not and what to change next time.
  • definition of doneA shared checklist of quality conditions that every piece of work must meet before the team can call it done, such as tested, reviewed and documented.
  • iterateTo improve a product step by step by releasing a version, learning from users and data, and then changing it again in repeated cycles.

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