Re: Sprint lengths around holidays?

I ask the team... As long as they understand it'll be an outlier, I'd be
fine with it.


I might coach them to use the time for some stuff that has been hard to do
for them individually or as a team, such as training, innovation, some
risky refactoring (less people in the way), knowledge transfer, team
building etc.


The holidays are generally time for family and friends, and I really like
how some managers and scrum masters I worked with coached people to put
these above their work in that period even if they came to the office.
Arrive late,eave early and possibly do some community work or organising an
innovation event which is open to the general public.


I prefer shortening a sprint over extending it


I prefer a clear alternative goal


And I'd live it if the team were super realistic of what they can
accomplish with a few (key?) team members missing on some days.


Let them figure out the mist effective use of that time. Even if it's an
investment in the year to come.
On Oct 19, 2015 10:21 PM, "Adam Sroka [email protected]
[SCRUMDEVELOPMENT]" <[email protected]> wrote:


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> 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.)
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> 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?
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>> 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.
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>> What do you think?
>> -boz
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