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A necessary reminder that our work/life structure is flawed (lemmy.world)

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 months ago (1 children)

we usually plan in more into a sprint than one can muster.

That means you have a project manager who doesn't understand how sprints are supposed to work, and he's hurting the entire team because of it. You guys will get burnt out, productivity will be shit, and the good people will leave. I'd encourage you to talk to them, or their boss if they don't listen.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I mean, that's true, but the point still stands - every first Friday of a sprint there is ALWAYS going to be work to be done.

And what if they're doing Kanban?

The point is, Fridays off shouldn't ever be dependent on "all work being done".

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

You should be able to tell by the first Friday if you're on-track to finish your sprint without working Fridays. You can't tell now because you're overloaded.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

I'm really not overloaded, I have a very agile team and we usually don't take more than we can manage.

But saying you can always, with 100% certainty predict what blockers may arise in the whole next week is a kind of clairvoyance I'm not sure is possible. If it was, we wouldn't need daily standups in that second week.

And, once again, Kanban is a thing.

Please, let's just not use "all work being done" as a metric for time off.