Succeeding with Agile

Stagger by a Day

As described in the earlier section on synchronized sprints, the benefits of synchronizing can still be had even with sprints that are offset by a day or two. We can take advantage of this, and instead of having all teams do sprint planning on exactly the same day, we can have one-third of the teams plan on, say, Tuesday, one-third on Wednesday, and the final third on Thursday. When teams do this, the issues surrounding a shared product backlog are, fortunately, mostly eliminated. When my team plans tomorrow, we will know which product backlog items your team committed to today.

Staggering by a day also addresses the problem of requiring an in-demand product owner, architect, user interface designer, or other shared team member ...