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Run sprints not marathons

KEY LEARNING POINT

Discover an approach that allows for regular change and improvement while reducing daily interruptions and distractions.

The initial board created in Section 17 enables you to capture your work and track it as it progresses. It allows you to view quickly your future work and pull the next task through as you complete others and as priority requires. This gives you a continuous real-time workflow that you can track and helps you to manage the act element of the learn – act – review cycle.

To increase the opportunity to learn and review regularly, agile breaks down a workload into time boxes of planned activity called sprints. Originally developed within software development by Jeff Sutherland ...

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