YDS: Who Decides the Sprint Length for A Scrum Team?

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April 13, 2021

On today’s episode of YOUR DAILY SCRUM: Who Decides the Sprint Length for A Scrum Team? Today's question asks about who decides the Sprint length for a Scrum Team. Ryan and Todd discuss different roles each Scrum Team member plays in figuring out the best sprint length (planning horizon) for the team. Check out the video and let us know what you think below!

Ryan Ripley and Todd Miller are the author of Fixing Your Scrum: Practical Solutions to Common Scrum Problems. They are the co-founders of Agile for Humans, the premiere Scrum and Kanban training organization.

Join Ryan and Todd in a Professional Scrum training course: https://www.scrum.org/agile-humans

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sharath babu

05:58 pm April 28, 2021

hi, I have one question - during planning meeting once capacity of sprint is confirmed with available resources lets say 600 hrs for the two weeks sprint. How do we consider velocity for that sprint - Assuming that its a new team and it is their first sprint.

If its a third or 4th sprint - we take the average of previous sprints velocity and plan accordingly.

Any correlation between storypoint and hours, awaiting for early reply