[blackoil]

The problem with Sprints is that they come with fixed events and associated ceremonies. If your 2 week task is slipping by 2 days you have to answer why in the retrospective. If you remove the sprint deadlines and make the retrospective etc. adhoc and mostly dev team initiated it takes away all the pressure while keeping monitoring/measurements.

[sovietmudkipz]

That system of ad hoc meetings probably works for a team who works well together. Any system can work for a team that works well together.

My team tried ad hoc meetings. We wound up not having the meetings. We now just stick to the sprint schedule, at the behest of our manager.