Re: Sprint lengths around holidays?

That all sounds reasonable.

I think, if I were in charge, I would probably rather they actually spent
the time with their families and we just shut of the lights for a week or
two. Keep a few critical staff on call.

On Monday, October 19, 2015, Jesse Houwing [email protected]
[SCRUMDEVELOPMENT] <[email protected]> wrote:

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> I ask the team... As long as they understand it'll be an outlier, I'd be
> fine with it.
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> I prefer shortening a sprint over extending it
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> I prefer a clear alternative goal
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> 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.
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> 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]
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> [SCRUMDEVELOPMENT]" <[email protected]
> <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','[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]
>> <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','[email protected]');> [SCRUMDEVELOPMENT]
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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.
>>>
>>> What do you think?
>>> -boz
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