Changing Sprint length sounds small. It isn’t. You’re rewiring the team’s heartbeat: planning, demo cadence, stakeholder expectations, metrics—everything. Get it right and throughput climbs with less stress. Get it wrong and you’ll drown in churn, missed goals, and noisy metrics.
Below are the most common traps I see when teams tweak Sprint cadence, plus fast,…
If you’re here for a straight answer first: a Sprint is one month or less. That’s the official time-box. Most elite teams today run one or two weeks, with two weeks still the common default. The rest of this playbook shows you how to pick your length, prove it works, and when to change it—without…
Scrum gives you focus and cadence. Kanban adds flow and predictability. Used together, you can deliver more steadily without changing Scrum’s roles, events, or artifacts. This guide shows exactly how to layer Kanban practices into your existing Scrum setup to visualize flow, limit WIP, and actively manage aging work—plus a 4-week pilot plan and clear…