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by dale_glass 46 days ago
True, but that's the theory, and there's the practical reality that is messy. Where things like almost the entire team being on vacation for Christmas happens. Or where Bob, coming back from vacation 2 days into a new sprint would find out that everyone made a plan without him being involved.

In such situations something's got to give. My choice is that the something is the rigid process. Because I think it's much preferable to make a plan with the whole team present.

It's not that big of a deal really. Flexibility doesn't mean we're always picking random sprint lengths, it means we make occasional concessions for real world constraints, which is kind of the point of Agile anyway.