Re: Sprint lengths around holidays?

I think you have to make a judgment call whether enough team members will
be present on enough days to get anything done. If the answer is yes, I
would say treat it like any other sprint, and be mindful of the fact that
the velocity will be an outlier (usually). If the answer is no, I would
just postpone the start of the sprint until everyone is back and work on
housekeeping like Wouter suggested. That is a matter of personal
preference. I don't like to extend sprints, but there's no reason you
couldn't (it should not be a regular occurrence, obviously.)

On Monday, October 19, 2015, Christofer Jennings [email protected]
[SCRUMDEVELOPMENT] <[email protected]> wrote:

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> Do you change sprint lengths around the Holidays?
>
> I don’t mean any old holiday through the year. For that I assume you don’t
> (I don’t). But what about around the end of the year when many people are
> off for periods of days, and those days kind of overlap but not
> necessarily? For example, I have a team that wants to add a few calendar
> days to a couple of sprints so they have enough people around for things to
> get things done. Some ceremony days would naturally fall on days when
> basically no one’s around.
>
> What do you think?
> -boz
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