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Your 1 Week Sprint

Greg Thomas
3 min readJan 1, 2025

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Many years ago, before Agile, I worked at a company where we built websites and applications for customers on demand, when they needed them.

That was our model — you want it, we build it.

And we were good at it.

We built this one application that was pretty sophisticated at the time and built some rudimentary website templates and then distributed them as websites to that organization’s clients (we handled the hosting too). This site was built specifically for a singular customer.

It was at that point there was an idea to take what we had built and genericize it and make it into a product. Something we could sell again and again.

But there was work to do — not just from the app perspective, but from a business development and sales perspective as well.

Everyone Gets Involved

An app is great but without the surrounding pieces that can support it, implement it, and push it out — it’s just an app.

Therein came the one-week sprint, during which the company focused on nothing else but making this app the product it could be. All other work (save for customer support issues) was pushed off. Everyone was given their work.

I don’t remember everything about the week, I don’t think we hit all our goals…

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Greg Thomas
Greg Thomas

Written by Greg Thomas

Software Architect, Developer, Author and Leader helping organizations build scalable software delivery teams and implement cloud-based solutions

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