Anyone ever overlap Sprints for their team
mlin...@norcal-group.com
We are new to Agile processing (about 5 months), and we have been using Scrum and Scrumban.
For this team we are using Scrum (Sprints) and we have defined "Done" as development, user testing and implementation of a story. The work done in our sprints consists of Maintenance and some new features for our company.
The team started with a 2-week sprint cycle, and we were really not getting anything "Done". The team felt we needed to go to a 3-week spring to allow time for user testing. This results in the last week of the sprint mainly being focused on User Testing, so not much for the development team members to do during this time period. So we were looking at overlapping our Sprints, but was not sure if his would be a bad agile process.
Did not like the idea of putting items in the Sprint that we knew would not be completed within the sprint. At the same time wanted to make sure the development team had a continuous flow of work.
Example:
Week of 7/11 - Week 1 Sprint 3 = Development
Week of 7/18 - Week 2 Sprint 3 = Development & IT Testing
Week of 7/25 - Week 3 Sprint 3 = User Testing ----> Week 1 Sprint 4 = Development -----------> this is the overlapping week of the sprints.
Week of 8/01 - Week 2 Sprint 4 = Development & IT Testing
Week of 8/08 - Week 3 Sprint 4 = User Testing ----> Week 1 Sprint 5 = Development -----------> this is the overlapping week of the sprints.
Thanks, Marc...
Sean McCrohan
If user testing reveals a problem, what happens next? Does the development team revisit the work in the context of the existing story, or do the results of the user testing become input for iterating on the feature in a new story?
If the first, what will happen if the development team has already moved onto new work because they’ve started their new (overlapped) sprint?
If the second, when will that story be worked? Does that timing work with your delivery needs?
I don’t have a best practice to offer, but I think that working through those questions might help you explore the process.
--Sean McCrohan
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