>8hr "planning" sessions
One place I was at had quarterly 3 day planning sessions. That was something else.
One place I was at had quarterly 3 day planning sessions. That was something else.
Team1: "Hey, we've launched a new initiative a few weeks back. Important for us to be able to add one field to the response of your internal billing API. Can we discuss what that would take?"
Team2: "Hey, probably a few hours of work. But, we just had our quarterly planning last week. In 12 weeks you can submit for Q2, and _maybe_ we will plan it somewhere in May or June."
Plus a planning every sprint and daily stand ups.
sigh
For the people doing planning, they were always busy playing ticket shuffle, asking random devs random questions all the time. But those two weeks was cray and anything not done by the end of the sprint had to be done by the end of the planning period, and you better have a good reason.