Agile Sprints and Corp Holiday Calendar

[Juan Osorio]

Is it possible to tie sprints to a corp holiday calendar? That way if a holiday lands in any particular sprint. You can deduct the 8 hrs (business day) lost for the holiday and multiply that by the numbers of resources (developers) that would have been working. In order to deduct that number from the group capacity points? That way capacity is using real life numbers and just estimates on hours in a sprint.

Example:

Sprint start: July 1, 2024 @ 00:00:00

Sprint end: July 17, 2024 @ 23:59:59

You have 4 developers with a sum of 120 hrs group capacity (points)

July 4 is a holiday (8 business hours)

8 hrs x 4 Developers = 32 Hrs lost in group capacity (points)

So the sprint is really 120 hrs - 32 hrs = 88 hrs (points)

88 hrs of real development time in the sprint is a baseline number to start with for group capacity.