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Yes, but you need a special client for that. I'm starting to get one to accept sprints, but it's taken 2 years. The rest think sprints are a great excuse for me not to deliver and need another $X000 to finish the work (fair enough, I wouldn't trust a car mechanic/builder/plumber working on this system)

Besides, clients always underestimate the time something takes. Expectation management is an oft-forgotten sibling to estimating. And when you're pitching for work, if others are promising to deliver everything for $Y and I offer a sprint-based system... as someone else commented, I've lost the project by then.

I asked for advice on this a couple of days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5643259. Your input very welcome!




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