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Sprints aren't the only method of agreeing objectives. You can just say "we plan on getting this done by next Wednesday".

I've dropped sprints on 2 teams now, and improved our cadence both times.



It's wholly dependent on the larger organisation.

If you need to demo to gain stakeholder approval, and provide ceremonies like retros to disseminate knowledge to a wider team .. these events need scheduling.

Randomly springing these on people without any regularity just won't work in most orgs.


sizing all your projects so they neatly fit in 2-week chunks also never works for every dev team I've met. There's always either some slack where the thing took 8 days not 10, or some part of the deliverable gets hacked off into another chunk so it fits.

and, ofc, estimating the time to deliver is impossible, so you end up scheduling a sprint demo that might or might not happen depending on how well the project is going.

Or, as I found, people are perfectly OK with scheduling demos in at short notice and being flexible about their expectations.


The project doesn't need to fit into 2-weeks!?

I'd suggest thinking this over, and revisiting.




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