the-sprint: Add benefit of 2 week sprints

* Added an additional benefit of two week sprints to address a
  common concern of how can we react in a timely fashion to
  customer support escalations without modifying sprints.

Signed-off-by: Chase Maupin <Chase.Maupin@ti.com>
Signed-off-by: Felipe Balbi <balbi@ti.com>

diff --git a/the-sprint.tex b/the-sprint.tex
index 4654cb1d3717570f6a19e302124f6e5062d9ea31..5387ee19cd858d3300f669beb83135185d49c972 100644 (file)
--- a/the-sprint.tex
+++ b/the-sprint.tex
@@ -50,7 +50,8 @@ A 2-week sprint brings two clear benefits:
 Due to item \ref{item:short-amount-of-time}, risk management becomes easy. If
 it turns out a particular sprint isn't successful, we're not loosing a
 considerable amount of work --  only 2 weeks -- and we can easily fix that on
 Due to item \ref{item:short-amount-of-time}, risk management becomes easy. If
 it turns out a particular sprint isn't successful, we're not loosing a
 considerable amount of work --  only 2 weeks -- and we can easily fix that on

-the next sprint.
+the next sprint.  A 2 week duration also allows a reasonable response time
+to changing priorities in the backlog such as customer issues.

 
 \paragraph{}
 Item \ref{item:not-too-short}, on the other hand, makes it easier to see
 
 \paragraph{}
 Item \ref{item:not-too-short}, on the other hand, makes it easier to see