Re: Sprint lengths around holidays?
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Great feedback from everybody. Thanks! This is the first year this organization is doing Scrum. The team has a very good report and know each other very well. They discussed the holidays and decided on their own how to adapt the sprints. I cautioned them on cadence changes but they have a plan through January and feel confident. There aren’t any other pressing reasons to force a regular sprint length, so I figure it’s fine. They can retrospect on the effects later. I’d take on less work and keep the rhythm too, by default. -Chris > On Oct 19, 2015, at 3:03 PM, Ron Jeffries [email protected] [SCRUMDEVELOPMENT] <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > I would not change the rhythm. Take on less work. > > R >> On Oct 19, 2015, at 3:47 PM, Christofer Jennings [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> [SCRUMDEVELOPMENT] <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: >> >> 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. > > > Ron Jeffries > ronjeffries.com <http://ronjeffries.com/> > I'm really pissed off by what people are passing off as "agile" these days. > You may have a red car, but that does not make it a Ferrari. > -- Steve Hayes > > > >