Two Teams, One Sprint Cadence — The Hidden Cost of Synchronization | Mirco Gerling
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Mirco Gerling discusses the challenges and hidden costs of synchronizing sprint cadences across teams.
Mirco Gerling: Two Teams, One Sprint Cadence — The Hidden Cost of Synchronization Read the full Show Notes and search through the world's largest audio library on Agile and Scrum directly on the Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast website: http://bit.ly/SMTP_ShowNotes . "The teams need to understand the advantage of the synchronization — but will they?" - Mirco Gerling Two of Mirco's teams just got merged into one — and the brand-new, fused team is now part of a 10+ team organization trying to move from loose-coupled chaos to a standard process. Different sprint lengths. Different estimation methods. Different ticketing tools. The plan: align everyone to 4-week sprints, hold a global planning week every three months, and synchronize start and end dates across all teams. Mirco voted for 2-week sprints. The majority went with 4. And then the side effects started. Sprint reviews stack up on the same days, making it impossible for Scrum Masters to facilitate them all. Teams synchronize on paper , but interact organically across the four weeks anyway, so the cadence advantage doesn't materialize. And the merged team itself? Pushed back through Tuckman's stages by the merge — the Tuckman…
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Host: Vasco Duarte
Guest: Mirco Gerling
Topics covered
- sprint cadence
- team synchronization
- Agile methodology
- Scrum
- team dynamics
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