If you’re building large new features on a product then I really recommend Shape Up’s model. Long period of driving the build followed by an explicit cool off p

If you’re building large new features on a product then I really recommend Shape Up’s model. Long period of driving the build followed by an explicit cool off period. They recommend 6 weeks of build followed by 2 weeks to cool off, but we’re such a small team that we halved this and found it worked way better - it’s four weeks which is an easier transition from two week sprints imo. It gives time to just polish off those little rough edges that build up over time and gives developers a lull in which to work on low stress 9-4.30 kind of work.