Comments on: Why Scrum Sprints Are Not Mini Waterfalls https://www.scrumexpert.com/knowledge/why-scrum-sprints-are-not-mini-waterfall/ Thu, 09 Feb 2012 14:45:32 +0000 hourly 1 By: Gary Reynolds https://www.scrumexpert.com/knowledge/why-scrum-sprints-are-not-mini-waterfall/#comment-575 Thu, 09 Feb 2012 14:45:32 +0000 http://www.scrumexpert.com/?p=928#comment-575 Personally, I would question whether point 3 (no change in scope during a sprint) should always be adhered to in a commercial environment. Things change, sometimes at short notice, and if that change means that what you’re working on is either (a) no longer the priority or (b) no longer wanted by the customer, then clearly you need to take action.

One option is to cancel the sprint and re-plan, but there’s an overhead involved in doing this. If the change in scope is relatively small, should teams need to go through the relatively costly exercise of planning another sprint?

I fleshed out my thoughts on this subject in more detail at: http://agileblog.garyreynolds.me.uk/2011/12/accepting-change-into-iteration.html

Thoughts?

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