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I've worked at a company that tried to implement these types of 'hackathon sprints', but it always came down to last minute fires or upper management delaying t
by hkarthik 15y ago
I've worked at a company that tried to implement these types of 'hackathon sprints', but it always came down to last minute fires or upper management delaying them at the last minute for arbitrary reasons.
Glad you guys are able to do it, and I hope you'll continue to do so as you grow.
- wpeterson 15y agoWe do struggle with this, too. We rotate one person on 2-week interrupt-driven bug duty - we do have bugs we have to address immediately, but the interruptions are constrained to one victim. This helps protect the rest of the team. We also struggle with bleed-over and follow-up work from a previous development sprint when WOW Week comes right afterward. There's no silver bullet to prevent this, though we try to be more disciplined about letting work slip if it can't ship completely on time.