Scrum: The Art of Doing Twice the Work in Half the Time

by Jeff Sutherland

After the first Sprint, once you’ve completed the OODA loop and delivered some product to customers, you’ll change that order, realizing that another arrangement is actually better. And then you keep doing it, continually updating and reprioritizing the Backlog each Sprint, tacking toward the order that delivers value the fastest. You’ll probably never reach the absolute perfect order, but you want to move toward it step by step, Sprint by Sprint. The key thing to remember is that the order is always in flux. The right order one week won’t be the same the next. Your environment will have changed. You’ll have learned new things. You’ll have discovered that some things are easier and some harder.