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Sprint

Meaning in software engineering, with examples

/sprɪnt/nounCore term

In software engineering, sprint means: A fixed period, usually one or two weeks, in which a team commits to finishing a chosen set of work items.

In Turkish: koşu, iterasyon, sprint dönemi

How it is used

Comes from Scrum. Teams talk about sprint planning, the sprint goal, 'this sprint' and 'next sprint', and the sprint review at the end. Unfinished work 'carries over' to the next sprint.

Example sentences

  1. We can't fit the reporting feature into this sprint.

  2. Two tickets carried over from the last sprint.

  3. Sprint planning starts at ten on Monday.

Common collocations

  • sprint planning
  • sprint goal
  • sprint review
  • this sprint
  • carry over to the next sprint
  • agileDescribing a way of working in short cycles, delivering small pieces often and changing plans based on feedback, instead of following one long fixed plan.
  • backlogThe ordered list of work a team has not started yet, such as features, bugs and improvements, with the most important items at the top.
  • stand-upA short daily team meeting, often 15 minutes, where each person says what they did, what they will do next and whether anything is blocking them.
  • estimateTo judge roughly how much time or effort a task will take before you start it. As a noun, 'an estimate' is that rough figure.
  • ticketA record in a tracking tool such as Jira that describes one piece of work, like a bug, task or feature, and shows who owns it and its status.

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