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I guess they don’t use Scrum at Shopify?

Otherwise it will be awkward to manually have to schedule:

- Daily stand ups - Biweekly (or sprint_length) sprint planning/review/retros

Those sort of things are built into scrum to keep your team on track and prevent problems from being withheld until it’s too late.

Scrum is kind of a big red flag these days. One technical status meeting a week is plenty (as you'd have pursuing a PhD).

A sprint is timeboxed to 2 weeks. A PhD is not.

A sprint is timeboxed to 2 weeks. Technically a PhD is as well, but with a few more zeros.

But a project is. Get rid of the sprints.

Or they found Scrum to be unproductive and are looking for alternatives.