Hello Good Friends,
I recently attempted the PSM certification and sadly missed by one question. I am preparing to take it again shortly and I am researching the questions that did not come easily to me. I am reaching out because there was one question I cannot find a formal official scurm based answer to and in my years as serving as both a product owner and a scrum master I have heard differing opinions.
The question related to how many hours should the dev team work. I can recall three of the four answers; ideal hours, enough to meet their commitments, and 7-8 hours per day. My thoughts were to select the 'enough to meet their commitments' selection. However, sometimes teams take on too much and trying to maintain their commitments quickly leads to working late and weekends and eventually team burnout if they don't learn to adjust their sprint planning commitments.
I can understand arguments for both. Teams should maintain reasonable hours so that we know what they can accomplish at a balanced pace and also teams should feel the pain of their mistake (commitments should hold weight) so they learn not to do that again.., but what is the formal scrum answer that would be expected? Did I get it right?
Scott
I recently attempted the PSM certification and sadly missed by one question. I am preparing to take it again shortly and I am researching the questions that did not come easily to me. I am reaching out because there was one question I cannot find a formal official scurm based answer to and in my years as serving as both a product owner and a scrum master I have heard differing opinions.
The question related to how many hours should the dev team work. I can recall three of the four answers; ideal hours, enough to meet their commitments, and 7-8 hours per day. My thoughts were to select the 'enough to meet their commitments' selection. However, sometimes teams take on too much and trying to maintain their commitments quickly leads to working late and weekends and eventually team burnout if they don't learn to adjust their sprint planning commitments.
I can understand arguments for both. Teams should maintain reasonable hours so that we know what they can accomplish at a balanced pace and also teams should feel the pain of their mistake (commitments should hold weight) so they learn not to do that again.., but what is the formal scrum answer that would be expected? Did I get it right?
Scott