I don't think this matters, but wanted to see if there are reasons one way or the other before talking to coworkers about it.

We're doing 3-week sprints. Two weeks of dev, then a week* with all the ceremonies - sprint review, product backlog reviews, sprint planning, retrospectives, etc. - for multiple teams.

Would you consider that week to be the start of a sprint or the end of a sprint?


* "A week? WTF?" No we can't do it all in a day. We've got multiple teams, and some people need to be in all the meetings. We also use this week for updating help files and release notes, packaging and deployment, and corporate / personal improvement training.