This past Friday, Valpak celebrated its 100th sprint with a Sprint Review celebration like no other.  Just to put this milestone into perspective …

Sprint 1 started back on October 14, 2011.  That means 100 (mostly 2-week) sprints took us 4.25 years which in working time equates to …

• 220 Weeks
• 1,100 Days
• 8,800 Hours
• 528,000 Seconds

Or put another way, we accomplished …

• 8,462 Stories
• 38,091 Story Points
• 42,310 Tasks
• 6,400 Standups (that’s a lot of calories burnt)
• ∞ Value Delivered

We moved our Sprint Reviews out of a conference room and into our main break area.

Teams performed their Sprint Review while also paying tribute to the 100th sprint milestone in their own way.

We celebrated our 100th sprint with a 100 cupcake salute.

Each cupcake represented a sprint. A flag was placed in each cupcake with the most significant accomplishment of that sprint across all teams.

You could literally eat your favorite (or not so favorite) sprint.

We did a random drawing based on the sprint number of the cupcake you ate.

At the end of the Sprint Reviews, Chris Cate (CIO & EVP) said a few words of appreciation and encouragement. Notice the CIO Magazine cover we Photoshopped for the occasion.

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