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Plan for Sick Days in February?
Written by Peter Schuh   
Thursday, 05 March 2009 11:12

Self-Reported Reasons for Sickness -- Eurofund Report NL0607NU04

I think I’m seeing a pattern here. For the second year in a row a blight of sick days has swept the office in the second half of February. Currently, we have multiple teams sorting through their iteration backlogs to account for and replan missed commitments.

This raises an interesting question. Next February, do I ask the project managers to account for potential sick days (basically, commit to less) in their iteration and release planning activities?

Perhaps that’s taking things too far. But I’m going to be on the lookout for this one next winter.

Plan for Sick Days in February?

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