Give the Gift of a Tech Debt Sprint This Agile Holiday Season

Holidays can be a challenging time in programming. How can you make the most of your velocity and energize the team at the same time?

Holidays can be a challenging time in software development. How can you make the most of your velocity and energize the team at the same time?

The Holiday Challenge

For a lot of teams, the holidays are a time of year when a large number of people take off after saving their PTO for the whole year.

This time is precious, especially for those who work with ecommerce after getting through a rough peak season, spending long nights making sure all the promotions went as scheduled.

What this means in practice, is you have a sprint with limited capacity or you have people coming in and out (depending on their schedule), carrying a lot of overhead with context switching and minimal communication throughout the week.

So, what can be a better option?

Spread the Holiday Cheer With a Tech Debt Sprint

The reality is, your holiday sprint isn’t going to be the most productive sprint of the year. More often than…