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Can sprints be more/less than two weeks?

Can sprints be more/less than two weeks?

From the course: Comparing Agile versus Waterfall Project Management

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Can sprints be more/less than two weeks?

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- Okay, so that makes sense. Now, it's divided into these, you were saying inflexible two week sprints. Wouldn't life be great if you could divide everything up into exact, two week chunks? But I'm thinking, what if it's a four week job, or a one week? I suppose if it's one week, do you just deliver two one weeks within your sprint? I mean, how does everything get wedged into a two week chunk? - Yeah, that's the inflexible part of Scrum, is that you have to deliver what your product owner requests at the top of the product backlog every two weeks. And sometimes if the product owner, you'll have to work with them to break something down. So like, if the product owner, let's say that they want, like, a webpage at the end of the sprint. So you might say to them, "Okay, what's the most "valuable part of the webpage?" And they might say, "Well this is, you know, "I want a form where people can submit their information."…

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