Talk:Sprint (software development)

where this word originates from? and how can it be related to Agile programming. ? --203.215.177.194

Both those questions are answered in the article. --OpenFuture (talk) 10:14, 3 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Merge

The Scrum concept of Sprint and the concept in this article is not the same. The Scrum sprints are what everyone else calls "iterations". As such it may actually make sense to merge it with Iterative and incremental development. --OpenFuture (talk) 04:16, 2 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]

How about before removing the tag, we actually discuss this. I maintain that both refer to a time boxed period of software work. Notice the following from the Scrum article:

A sprint is a basic unit of development in the Scrum development methodology and other agile development methodologies.
Sprints tend to last between one week to a month[1], and are a "time-boxed"
(i.e. restricted to a specific duration) effort of a constant length

Compare to this article's opening:

A sprint is a time-boxed period of software development focused on a given list of goals (but with variable scope).

I propose it makes sense to have one "Sprint (software_development)" page, perhaps with sections explaining where some methodologies may differ. Also note that this page is the one linked to from the Scrum_(development) page. MLetterle (talk) 00:34, 3 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]

No, they are not the same thing, we need to have better descriptions instead. --OpenFuture (talk) 04:10, 3 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]

The Content of this page would be more appropriate under Sprint (hacking event) or something similar. Which could be linked from this page as well. Its obviously confusing to have this page refer only to the extremely short duration "codeathon" and not mention the longer development iteration. MLetterle (talk) 11:44, 3 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]

"Hacking event" is not a common name for anything so that doesn't seem very useful. Possibly something else would work, but I can't think of it. The usage on this page is the more common one, and in factm the Sprint (scrum) should clearly be merged with Scrum (development). A disambiguation link at the top of this page should definitely be here, noting that this is about the short meetups, not the Scrum name for iterations. --OpenFuture (talk) 11:53, 3 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]

I would argue against the description here being the most common one, try searching for "sprint software development" on Google for instance. But regardless, I think in the absence of further opinions a disambiguation link at the top of the page is a fair compromise. I've already marked the Sprint (scrum) page as a merge candidate into Scrum (development).. but really the Sprint (scrum) page itself is pretty bad. My concern is that most people coming here are in fact expecting the iterative development definition. I'll go ahead and add the disambiguation link to the article, and future editors can revisit this discussion if they feel it worthwhile MLetterle (talk) 23:39, 3 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]

References

There are these two papers that studied what happened at a sprint that could be incorporated into the article (I don't have time to read them at the moment):

Sigfridsson A., A. Sheehan, & G. Avram. "Mixing research methods to unveil work practices of dispersed Open Sourc communities: lessons learned from the PyPy study", workshop, International Conference on Global Software Engineering, 17 August 2008, Bangalore, India.

Sigfridsson A., G. Avram, A. Sheehan, & D. K. Sullivan “Sprint-driven development: working, learning and the process of enculturation in the PyPy community”, Third International Conference on Open Source Systems, Limerick, Ireland, June 11-13 2007.

Cfbolz (talk) 11:06, 4 December 2013 (UTC)[reply]

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