My team doesn't do sprints and honestly thank god. HN is pretty "product eng" focused and sprints do work better there... but for infra projects where the units of work often tend to involve more R&D, exploration, etc. I've found that weekly check-ins work best (scheduling ad-hoc sync when needed). You still get the benefit of a heads-up on what people are working on but you're not trying to shove tasks into arbitrary 2-3 week sprints.
At the end of the day, "agile" wasn't originally the monstrosity that scrum-fetishists have turned it into. It was simply these few lines:
"Individuals and interactions over processes and tools
Working software over comprehensive documentation
Customer collaboration over contract negotiation
Responding to change over following a plan"
At the end of the day, "agile" wasn't originally the monstrosity that scrum-fetishists have turned it into. It was simply these few lines:
"Individuals and interactions over processes and tools Working software over comprehensive documentation Customer collaboration over contract negotiation Responding to change over following a plan"