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In my team we took some agile practice and threw out some others.

We do:

- sprints

- retrospectives

- healthchecks (from Spotify squads)

- story points, and kinda compute our velocity. Well, we approximately know how many points we can do in a sprint

- say no. We routinely refuse to do stuff coming from the top of it doesn't align with our vision as engineers

We stopped:

- daily stand-ups. They're completely useless

- poker planning. We still evaluate tasks together but without the useless ceremonial, and autonomously reevaluate during the sprint if necessary. It's considered bad, we don't care, it works.



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