Re: Sprint lengths around holidays?

Usually I advise to keep the sprint length, partly also because when you
change the time, it's impossible to use the data in the statistics.
with normal time and over velocity, you can keep using the data to
calculate the next velocity.


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2015-10-20 0:03 GMT+02:00 Ron Jeffries [email protected]
[SCRUMDEVELOPMENT] <[email protected]>:


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> I would not change the rhythm. Take on less work.
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> R
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> On Oct 19, 2015, at 3:47 PM, Christofer Jennings [email protected]
> [SCRUMDEVELOPMENT] <[email protected]> wrote:
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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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> Ron Jeffries
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> I'm really pissed off by what people are passing off as "agile" these days.
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