October 2009
Intermediate to advanced
504 pages
15h 39m
English
On my first Scrum project, we started with only one team. That project soon grew to three teams, with the typical dependencies between them. I quickly arrived at what I thought would be a good way to manage those dependencies. I would stagger the sprint start dates by a week, as shown in Figure 17.6. The idea was that when a team went to start its sprint it would know the stories one of the other teams had recently committed to and which stories the other team was likely to finish.
Figure 17.6 Overlapping sprints cause problems.

Well, that part of my plan did work out well. But, overall, staggering the sprint start dates was ...
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