[jlintz]

We do a "ScrumBan" style. Basically we do backlog grooming, sprint planning with 2 week sprints. We factor in that the oncall engineer will likely have less velocity that sprint and we're ok with carry over of some tickets (try to minimize this as much as possible).

If you're having issues with your work fitting into a sprint, have you dug into why? Are you breaking down the task into small enough units that make them more digestable in a sprints worth of time?

We also punted on standups, I never found them to be valuable and past experiences felt like they were more of a mechanism to get people into the office at a certain time. We do a once a week team meeting with an agenda that you can add to before hand. We discuss anything that needs to be discussed as a team and unblock anyone then. I trust everyone is doing work daily and I can check our sprint board without having everyone tell me what they worked on daily.

[apple4ever]

I think a ScrumBan style would work much better, with 2 week sprints.

Yes - things just take awhile to get done. We split things up as much as possible.

If we didn't have daily stand ups I think that would be helpful.

BTW I am the Lead who acts as both the product owner and scrum master.