problem to choose the user stories
Hello, I want to create an application that generates the code of a workflow. the actor here consults the list of workflow, chooses and click on button generate. the phase of generating is complicated...
View ArticleScrum and Non Software applications
We have all seen the assessment question that Scrum can be applied to "almost any kind of complex application where the requirements are not well defined" - Government, Military, Manufacturing,...
View Articlewhich step to start off with as an in-experienced scrum master new to scrum...
Hi I needed some tips on how to start off my roles as a Scrum Master entirely new to scrum frame work. I heard about Scrum from a friend and it caught my interest, I started off by reading "Scrum the...
View ArticleAutomating Bug bash
Hello All,Working on a project to automate the bug bash process. Please comment on the following things:1. Issues/Bottlenecks/pain points faced in the process of bug bash faced by different...
View ArticleWhy is the Agile community so hung up on certifications?
For a community that clams to understand human psychology and be critical thinkers, how is the Agile community so hung up on the drive and seemingly mandatory need to get certifications when there are...
View ArticleManaging the Product Backlog
Our PO has started to practice ordering the Product Backlog with the high order items on the top i.e. the ones which have the most value and which are needed at the earliest by our stakeholders....
View ArticleHow to deal with unfinished PBIs & Technical PBIs?
Hello!I would like to share with you a few concerns I have to face with some new teams that I am helping adopting Scrum.These are my concerns with the hope that we could share feedback :
View ArticleR&D organization
How would you organize R&D group consisting of 500 persons ? Currently it is divided onto 7 products who hardly communicate. This group is really working on one product which due to complexity and...
View ArticleNo story points ..Only Hours.. Will it work ?
If the advantage of story points is just to make sure how much story points of work we can take up in a sprint and nothing more than that then instead of story points can we simply assign hours to...
View ArticleBlocking-release defect - how the team should handle that?
Dear forum,I have a mature Scrum team part of my engineering group. This team is self-organized, and there is no line-manager assigned for this team. The team went a long way in their agile journey –...
View ArticleImplementing agile for Non-Tech Teams
Hi,Anyone has any experience in implementing Agile in Non-Tech Teams like Marketing , finance , sales etc ?Would like to know the approaches, outcomes , and issues while implementing it. Many Thanks :-)
View ArticleCross functional teams
I’m currently scrum master for 2 teams working on 2 different products with a shared api, whilst the api is a large dependency of each, there are significant parts of the products that are independent...
View ArticleFeasibility and Dependency Best Practices for PBIs
Hello Everyone,I've been in program, product, and project management for the last 7 years or so during which I have been a program, product, and project manager as well as facilitated as scrum master...
View ArticleStakeholders constantly change the requirements
Hi, I need your advice. We have problems with our stakeholdests. They change the requirements every sprint and in every User Stories/tasks what are in sprint-almost when it is already at the stage of...
View ArticleCompletion of work by the Development Team
The Scrum guide says "No one (not even the Scrum Master) tells the Development Team how to turn Product Backlog into Increments of potentially releasable functionality"Similarly, "The Development Team...
View ArticleCan BA ask question during standup about work progress?
During daily standup Scrum master is not expected to ask questions like -When the particular work will be completed?How much more time it will take ? etc., and the expectation is development team...
View ArticleWe need to decide project delivery date before starting sprint
Client is asking for the approximate delivery date before even starting sprint. So, we cannot use usual velocity approach here.The other option left is to divide user stories in tasks and assign...
View ArticleDefinition of Done on Stories
So, I've been hosting lunch and learn sessions where I'm trying to coach the org on scrum values. It's been very humbling for me, because as this is not even my first full year being a scrum master,...
View ArticlePlanning meeting include a mandatory estimation process or not?
Does Planning meeting include a mandatory estimation process or not? And how estimation is performed? Can you explain it in details, pls.
View ArticleDoes shorter sprint(eg : 2 weeks) has more overhead than the longer sprint(...
I am not sure about the overhead and additional cost of shorter sprint. In the book "Software in 30 days" by ken and Jeff ,there is a costing table of short vs long sprint.where short sprint has a...
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