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Scrum Evolution: Type A, B, and C Sprints July 31, 2007

I got interested in Sprint Types after reading Jeff Sutherland’s article. I wanted to implement Type B Sprint, and started to research by asking this on the Yahoo ScrumDevelopment group:

Does anyone know how many companies have successfully transitioned from Type A to Type B Sprint? or even Type C?

A week & 30+ replies later, this generated lots of discussions for & against Sprint Types, it seems to me there is a lot of confusion in the Scrum community regarding this topic. Later I realized that this is an old debate, and a year ago it was discussed that the Type B Sprint is what everyone knows / teaches as just “Sprint.”

I am sorry for rekindling this old debate, and hopefully Ken’s response will help in calming it down:

There is only one Scrum... There are many ways to fill in its blanks to optimize productivity and ROI, but those vary with each situation. I may implement Scrum differently if …but it is all Scrum.

Whoever is interested in finding more about this topic should first read the book “The Enterprise and Scrum,” I just started to.

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