Hi everyone, for everyone who has been a part of weekly sprints what ate your feedback and thoughts on it? We have been using it at an early stage startup and getting good results. should we continue?
we do 2 week sprints.
I’ve tried weekly sprints before. It worked well and this was also an early stage startup and priorities often shifted or we needed to execute on something “hot” right away. The cons were that it didn’t give me much breathing room as a PM to form a deep backlog since I was also driving the sprint and playing scrum master. I’ve also done 3 week sprints and the standard 2. 2 weeks is still optimal.
How did you structure them? I have largely been following the structure in Jake Knapp's book. any better ideas?
Haven’t read the book but we had Grooming/Planning at the same time. Because of the week iterations we didn’t have time for separate meetings. Standup every day. And Retro every 3 weeks vs after each sprint.
We do two week sprints and have been using this cadence for 4 years now. The 2 week cadence is also tied to our release schedule. We release a new version of our product every 2 weeks. It requires discipline from the Scrum teams to be able to decompose their stories to for into 2 week increments.
We use biweekly sprints. I think it helps as just a week of dev cycle is sometimes not enough to work on complex issues which can then spill over. One could argue lets break down the stories more, though this doesn't work a lot of times for complex issues.
How do you get engineering team buy in? A lot of time they just wanna go 'fuck it I just want to code'
Leadership looks at the key agile metrics like team velocity, committed vs completed, story cycle times etc. Outliers are asked to justify. So just writing code doesn't help if you can't do it with predictable velocity. Awesome part of predictable velocity is that now you can go and plan out say month or quarter worth of work in advance.