Staggered sprints can work well for some teams. If your development environment does not allow for frequent releases (for example, you work on embedded software, or deliver software to an environment in which continuous deployment is difficult or impossible),2 the premium on getting the design right is higher. (In these cases, Lean UX might not be a great fit for your team because you’ll need to work hard to get the market feedback you need to make many of these techniques work.) For these teams, staggered sprints can allow for more validation of design work — provided you are still working in
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