How We Run Discovery Sprints in Five Working Days

Field notes from Shriram IT Ventures delivery work on How We Run Discovery Sprints in Five Working Days: the constraints that matter, the shortcuts that haunt you, and a checklist we still use.

Who this is for

Ignore the buzzwords. For How We Run Discovery Sprints in Five Working Days, the hard constraint is usually data ownership or ops capacity — not how many features fit on a roadmap slide.

Decisions that still look smart in 18 months

Ignore the buzzwords. For How We Run Discovery Sprints in Five Working Days, the hard constraint is usually data ownership or ops capacity — not how many features fit on a roadmap slide.

Build checklist we actually use

Ignore the buzzwords. For How We Run Discovery Sprints in Five Working Days, the hard constraint is usually data ownership or ops capacity — not how many features fit on a roadmap slide.

Failure modes we keep seeing

Ignore the buzzwords. For How We Run Discovery Sprints in Five Working Days, the hard constraint is usually data ownership or ops capacity — not how many features fit on a roadmap slide.

How we measure rollout

Teams that write trade-offs down before coding burn fewer sprints when a stakeholder changes their mind mid-build. We keep ADRs short on purpose.

We update this when delivery patterns change on live client work.