you haven’t lived until you have watched hackday output, ostensibly made for the lulz, rushed to prod, because customers would love that.
if you include the hackday as a day that counts towards velocity, then you will fall behind. because that’s hackday. if your scrum master is doing this, call them out on the dishonesty. make it their problem. let them complain about the velocity hit, and you have some hacky fun.
ultimately you have to make the call - are you too fed up to collect that paycheck? or are you comfortable leaning into the insanity for a buck?
If someone is measuring your team metrics, is narrow-mindedly managing by numbers, and can not incorporate the fact that you had a hackathon into the holistic picture of the team, they are doing metrics wrong.
Re: rushing things to prod, that's what feature flags are for!
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you haven’t lived until you have watched hackday output, ostensibly made for the lulz, rushed to prod, because customers would love that.
if you include the hackday as a day that counts towards velocity, then you will fall behind. because that’s hackday. if your scrum master is doing this, call them out on the dishonesty. make it their problem. let them complain about the velocity hit, and you have some hacky fun.
ultimately you have to make the call - are you too fed up to collect that paycheck? or are you comfortable leaning into the insanity for a buck?
If someone is measuring your team metrics, is narrow-mindedly managing by numbers, and can not incorporate the fact that you had a hackathon into the holistic picture of the team, they are doing metrics wrong.
Re: rushing things to prod, that's what feature flags are for!