Tobias Lieberum (TUM), Sebastian Schiffels (Lancaster University) and Rainer Kolisch (TUM) published the paper “Should We All Work in Sprints? How Agile Project Management Improves Performance” in Manufacturing & Service Operations Management.

The new research shows: People inherently tend to spend too much time on early tasks at the expense of later tasks when they are free to progress at their own pace─as is common in traditional project management. We call this effect the “Progression Fallacy”. Be careful when additionally setting ambitious goals for yourself: Your struggle to achieve them can make things even worse by amplifying the progression delay. The good news is: Strict deadlines of agile sprints can mitigate these effects and help you achieve balanced performance across all tasks.

Learn more about these findings via the link below: https://pubsonline.informs.org/doi/epdf/10.1287/msom.2022.1091