Sprinting Slows You Down: A Better Way to Build Software

Deadline by the end of the sprint is not how we typically approach things even in a scrum context. I'm not sure whether there's any words about it in the scrum dogma.

It’s a brave person who stakes their business on swimming against perceived common wisdom. I’ve seen it succeed, at least for a while, at some startups.

The cognitive load of managing expectations of clients, investors, etc who are trained to expect the stand way of doing things seems to get too much though, over time.

If you look at sprints as a delivery schedule instead of a benchmark for development speed, sure.

Small brain: Waterfall

Big brain: Sprints

Galaxy brain: “it will be ready when it’s ready”