Sprint is jargon and jargon alienates newcomers. One of the goals of this team is to teach the government a new way of working.

The article title would be much better as:

> "How a two-day cross-functional team moved an agency twenty years forward"

I'll go even further and say that Agile terminology should be avoided as much as possible, as we have already seen it corrupted into anti-Agile in the enterprise. Stick to the basics (short work cycles, cross-functional teams, clear explicit goals, quick constant feedback, etc) and a new organization will better maintain the true intent of Agile, rather than mindlessly cargo-culting the structures (sprint, iterations, agile team, scrum board, etc).