MicroNuggets: Sprints Explained

In this video, Steve Caseley covers what a Scrum sprint is. He explains how it is, in essence, a Scrum development cycle that delivers production-ready programming code. He also explains what a story is within the context of this cycle. He further describes how a sprint is short and how it has a fixed scope, and he defines all its elements.

After watching this video, you will know exactly what a sprint is in Scrum project development. Steve describes how it is a software development cycle that produces production-ready programming code. These relate to a set number of well-defined stories that have specific scopes. These stories can include analysis, design, development, testing and documentation. Steve then discusses how sprints should be short in length: either two or four weeks. Finally, he describes all the elements within a sprint. This includes the sprint plan, the completed development cycle, the daily scrum, the sprint review and the sprint retrospective.

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