> A "sprint" is term for a common period in technology companies in which people work long hours in the weeks leading up to a release of a new feature or product.

Alright, who bullshitted to the BBC? I know its fun to mess with the normies, but that was just mean.

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stavros 3 days ago | parent | next [-]

I guess they conflated "sprint" with "crunch".

	▲	EdwardDiego 3 days ago \| parent [-]
		Or "death march".

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aussieguy1234 4 days ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Most companies I've been in carefully plan each sprint so as not to include work beyond the teams capacity, not sure where they got this definition of sprint from

	▲	scary-size 3 days ago \| parent \| next [-]
		They didn’t get a definition. Probably looked at the word „sprint“. Went: „Yep, sounds fast but only for a short period. Gotta be these 90 hour weeks once in a while. Definitely can’t be the thing these folks are doing continuously.“. Crunch would be a better fit for that.
	▲	pjmlp 2 days ago \| parent \| prev \| next [-]
		I definitely have worked in projects where sprint and crunch could be synonymous, with tickets dragged across several sprints.
	▲	ratelimitsteve 3 days ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		I have an idea, but I also have conflicting idea that they couldn't find the source of this definition with both hands and a map.

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bogdan 4 days ago | parent | prev [-]

Makes one think about the Gell-Mann Amnesia effect

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Gell-Mann_Amnesia_effect