{"id":38505,"date":"2020-02-21T12:32:31","date_gmt":"2020-02-21T19:32:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/premier-developer\/?p=38505"},"modified":"2020-02-18T12:40:53","modified_gmt":"2020-02-18T19:40:53","slug":"38505-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/premier-developer\/38505-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Sprint Zero Considered Harmful!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dev Consultant <a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/assafstone\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Assaf Stone<\/a> takes a hard, honest look at Sprint Zero and the important lessons that come with it.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-38506 size-thumbnail\" src=\"http:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/premier-developer\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/31\/2020\/02\/Signs-Hazard-Warning-9-150x150.png\" alt=\"Image Signs Hazard Warning 9\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/>Many development teams, especially those who are new to Scrum, or those trying to bring some level of agility to an otherwise conservative waterfall organization, struggle with their first attempts at adopting a truly agile approach. This is particularly true for teams getting started on a new <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Greenfield_project#Software_development\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">green-field<\/a> project. For these teams, one of the greatest hurdles to success is the imperative to deliver \u201csomething\u201d at the end of just one sprint. The most common solution that these teams arrive at is having what is often called \u201csprint zero\u201d. Unfortunately, this is a bad choice that hinders the team\u2019s agile transformation; worse, its harmful effects materialize much later in the project.<\/p>\n<p>Continue reading on <a href=\"http:\/\/devmanwalking.com\/2020\/02\/09\/sprint-zero-considered-harmful\/\">Assaf&#8217;s blog.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Successfully delivering valuable functionality in the first sprint or three can be difficult, and for some, simply impossible. But the lessons learned from the attempt are invaluable! Taking an early hit, failing in the short term is unimportant if it improves the chance of success in the long run.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":582,"featured_media":38506,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[19,34,2571,3],"class_list":["post-38505","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-alm","tag-agile","tag-alm","tag-azure-devops","tag-team"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"<p>Successfully delivering valuable functionality in the first sprint or three can be difficult, and for some, simply impossible. But the lessons learned from the attempt are invaluable! Taking an early hit, failing in the short term is unimportant if it improves the chance of success in the long run.<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/premier-developer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38505","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/premier-developer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/premier-developer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/premier-developer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/582"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/premier-developer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38505"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/premier-developer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38505\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/premier-developer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38506"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/premier-developer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38505"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/premier-developer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38505"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/premier-developer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38505"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}