“You can perfectly use Scrum for research”

You could, but I wouldn’t. When I was a research assistant, I could not imagine getting people to set goals for the day. That is not how research is done — especially theoretical research. A-lot of research is thinking and trying to understand something better — not goal driven.

But we’re getting off topic. Your article was about spring 0. Yes, one could do those things in the context of a sprint 1, but I think it is a poor fit. A-lot of what happens during sprint 0 — or whatever you call it — is unstructured. There needs to be time to think deeply, about the design, about how to set things up. The pressure of a sprint cadence, and having to define work as tasks and stories, puts too much structure in place too early.

Yes, you could do it, but I think it is not the best way.