How long should a Sprint be? The Scrum Guide recommends one month or less but it also needs to be long enough that a potentially releasable product Increment can be created.
The heart of Scrum is a Sprint, a time-box of one month or less during which a “Done”, useable, and potentially releasable product Increment is created. Sprints have consistent durations throughout a development effort. A new Sprint starts immediately after the conclusion of the previous Sprint.
Sometimes due to the complexity of our product or the industry we are in, it actually takes weeks, months, or even years to build something that is releasable. If that’s the case, then what we really have is a weeks-, months-, or years-long Sprint. If our Sprint is longer than a month, then we can fool ourselves all we want, but we are not really practicing Scrum, because the guide clearly states that it is one month or less and that a potentially releasable Increment is created. In this case, we have two options, both of which are valid:
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