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I've come to best appreciate agile by calling "agile" whatever practices work best for my team. Sometimes we move things in and out of a sprint mid-sprint beca
by helen___keller 7y ago
I've come to best appreciate agile by calling "agile" whatever practices work best for my team.
Sometimes we move things in and out of a sprint mid-sprint because new information came up and it's high priority? It's not ideal (and we'll discuss it in retro) but that's agile.
We've sat a fat 5-point ticket in our backlog for 3 sprints straight because it needs a decent sum of meeting time and dedicated attention from multiple engineers who keep facing higher priority work and not quite having time for it? That's fine, we're being agile.
Our backlog grooming meeting ended after 8 minutes because we had nothing to discuss and we're all focused on delivering? Very agile.
- HeyLaughingBoy 7y agoThree sprints? LMAO. I've had tickets that sat "In Development" for the better part of 6 months because higher priority stuff kept coming up, but no one wanted to acknowledge that we had more pressing work to do :-)
- joejerryronnie 7y agoEach of the things you mention sound perfectly fine if it works for your team and you are able to deliver your customer’s highest priority items while keeping your team happy.