#random (2022-12)
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2022-12-13
Hello everyone!! 
I am looking at how other teams are organized to find ideas for our Ops team on how to work more efficiently. Like are you using Kanban or Sprints? Meeting, how many a week and how long (15 min max?), what type? ( grooming, retro, etc)
What would the grooming session be like for you?
For things like this, I would like to know what worked best for you and your team and what didn’t.
We schedule our tasks in Linear with 3 week cycles. We found 2 weeks often were too short for ops tasks. A cycle starts with going through triage and backlog tickets and agreeing on what is important for the starting cycle. Approximately every 3 cycles we do a retro, often we schedule them to fit in with a company meeting where we meet up in person. Every thing else is done fully remote. Our team is split between multiple countries in Europe.
I’m about to try this out with my team: https://newrelic.com/blog/best-practices/kanban-for-ops-teams. We use Kanban but there wasn’t a clear structure to it.
