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Why does sprints turn into waterfall?
The goal with a sprint is not to break a big chunk of work into smaller pieces of work, that you like Lego blocks put together according to an already created drawing. If you do that, you haven’t understood why we work in sprints, or for that matter, not even what agile development is. Whenever you find yourself using sprints as Lego blocks, the chances are great that you started the project with a big hairy audacious plan which you then break up into smaller pieces that are small enough for a sprint. You see each sprint just as a small part of the plan. Like a jigsaw puzzle piece…