> > Could someone kindly explain to me what Sprint Contingents are? > > It is the chance to reserve a certain percentage of time to some > unplannable events, this time will be removed from the team capacity > for that sprint. Examples are: Bug Fixing in the production system, > support...
Is it something like setting a focus factor lower than 100%? Focus factor is explained in "Scrum and XP from the trenches". Basically, if a story point corresponds to roughly on man-day, than the sum of story points should be 70% (for example) of the total available man-days. Using this rule your not fully booked and have time for interrupts, meetings, unplanned tasks, and so on. > > I have been doing Scrum for a couple of years now and I haven't come > > across this term before. Didn't find it in the documentation either. > > The term is inspired from "contingency" which are typical things that > you can't really plan :-) "Contingent" is actually an ordinary English. Used as a noun it can be a group of representatives or a military unit. If the meaning is related to uncertainty then "contingent" is an adjective. You could for example say: Contingent Sprint tasks. Or even better; use a simpler vocabulary. Maybe not so elegant, but much easier to use for an international audience. - Eirik --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Agilo for Scrum" group. This group is moderated by agile42 GmbH http://www.agile42.com and is focused in supporting Agilo for Scrum users. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/agilo?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
