Why Don’t They Build Cars in Sprints?

If continuous flow assembly is the preferred way to make cars, then why not software?

Raj Nagappan
Level Up Coding
Published in
9 min readMar 28, 2022

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Rolling out the latest features for review, with stakeholders waiting for their first look
Rolling out the latest features for review, with stakeholders waiting for their first look | Source

Have you ever seen a car assembly plant that produces cars in discrete Sprints that begin and end? As in, at the start of a two week period, the team commences to build a new batch of cars, and completes only those cars by the end of the Sprint? No new cars…

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