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What a Six-Week Sprint Cannot Fix (And What It Delivers Instead)

Standardisable processes and broken handovers can be fully fixed within six weeks; problems in system architecture or organisational design typically yield a solid plan and business case instead of a finished fix, since those changes usually require investment and timelines beyond what a six-week window can responsibly deliver. Knowing which category a problem falls into before starting is what lets the sprint promise a specific, honest outcome rather than an open-ended one.

How to tell which category a problem falls into before starting

If the fix mainly requires changing how people work within existing systems and structures, it's usually fixable in six weeks. If it requires replacing a system, redesigning the org chart, or a capital investment, it usually isn't, but a properly scoped business case for that larger change is still a six-week deliverable.

Why a business case is still a genuine result, not a consolation prize

A fully costed business case, effort, resources, risk, start date, defined owner, turns a vague sense that "something needs to change" into a decision leadership can actually approve or reject. That's a materially different, and more valuable, output than another round of analysis.

What happens if the sprint discovers the problem is bigger mid-way

The two-week go/no-go checkpoint exists partly for this, if the diagnosis reveals the issue is structural rather than process-level, the remaining weeks pivot to building the business case rather than forcing an execution that was never going to hold.

Margin's Dropping and You Don't Have Six Months to Find Out Why

A six-week sprint gets to the root cause, tests a fix in the operation, and leaves you with either a working solution or a fully priced business case, we tell you which, upfront.

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