Do I understand correctly that you're doing nine week sprints? That sounds extremely long to me. I have to think you're spending lots of time planning work tha

Do I understand correctly that you're doing nine week sprints? That sounds extremely long to me. I have to think you're spending lots of time planning work that won't be done. When you plan a sprint, how often does the work at the end of the sprint actually get completed by end of sprint? Say you plan to start the "add Foo button to Bar page" in week 7, do you actually do that? That would require some really strong estimation skills and a remarkably stable product and business environment. What's the point in the sprint where you're doing more unplanned work than planned? Or how much carry over work do you have? Because if I was trying to plan nine weeks of work, I'd get it drastically wrong, and waste tons of time planning stuff we weren't gonna do. I would make the next few sprints 4 week ones and plan to get down to 2 week sprints after the shorter pace starts to show it's strengths. Or maybe you have 9 people doing 1 week sprints and that's how you got 45 days. In which case, whoops! I have no suggestions!