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Sprint

Meaning in project management, with examples

/sprɪnt/nounCore term

In project management, sprint means: A short, fixed period, often two weeks and never longer than a month, in which a Scrum team completes an agreed set of work.

In Turkish: sprint, iterasyon

How it is used

The heartbeat of Scrum. Each sprint starts with sprint planning and ends with a sprint review and a retrospective. People say “in this sprint”, “next sprint”, and talk about the sprint goal.

Example sentences

  1. We can't fit the reporting feature into this sprint, so let's plan it for the next one.

  2. The goal of Sprint 6 is to let users reset their password without calling support.

Common collocations

  • sprint goal
  • sprint review
  • two-week sprint
  • in this sprint
  • end of the sprint
  • scrumA popular agile framework in which a small team delivers work in fixed cycles called sprints, with set roles such as product owner and scrum master and regular events like planning and reviews.
  • sprint planningThe meeting at the start of each sprint where the Scrum team agrees on a sprint goal, chooses the backlog items it will deliver and plans how to do the work.
  • backlogAn ordered list of all the work that might be done on a product, such as features, fixes and improvements, with the most important items at the top.
  • velocityThe amount of work an agile team usually completes in one sprint, often measured as the total story points of the finished items.
  • iterationOne short, repeated cycle of planning, building, testing and reviewing, after which the product is improved based on what was learned.

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