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:green_book: Contains our processes, questions and journey to creating a team
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Does Bug Fixing Window Scale Linearly? #66

Closed ghost closed 6 years ago

ghost commented 7 years ago

At the moment we leave about 2 days for bug fixing in a 2 week sprint and 1 day for bug fixing in a 1 week sprint.

My question is does this definitely scale this way? Is it always 20% of the sprint time? If for some reason we did a 15 day sprint would the bug fixing window be 3 days?

iteles commented 7 years ago

@markwilliamfirth They're actually not 2 bug fixing days. I usually say '1 day for refactoring and 1 day for bug fixing' for simplicity but in actual fact, at least half a day if not more are taken up with sprint planning, stand ups, demo prep and the demo.

The 20% is a good rule of thumb, though requires some pragmatism in anything under 5 days.

On a side note, we'd have a 10 day sprint and a 5 day sprint rather than a 15 day one 👍

Cleop commented 6 years ago

@iteles - can this be closed now?

iteles commented 6 years ago

It can. I think it's a good question though. If anyone opens it again we can add it to the readme.