At the beginning of a new piece of work, some teams will choose to run a Sprint that focuses purely on setup first. These can include anything from the Scrum Board through to source code repositories, Wikis to staging, and even production deployment pipelines.
This Sprint is often called Sprint Zero, although it is not officially recognized or sanctioned by the Scrum guide. Sprint Zero does deviate from the Agile Manifesto in that it delivers little or no working software at the end of it.
It's also not uncommon for teams to try to expand the Sprint Zero well beyond the usual iteration length—5 to 6 weeks isn't uncommon. This is a sign that the transition from a Waterfall-style delivery to an incremental one is too ...
