Story points and business value are related or not?
PO maximizes value delivered to end user by working collaboratively with the development team but (in my opinion) story points used to deliver feature (or story) may or may not closely related to the...
View ArticleStory versus task
I am looking for a good definition of the difference between a story and a task. I have joined a scrum team and looking through the backlog there are a lot of task looking items but trying to explain...
View ArticleTeam Size: What the Scrum Guide says vs. Others
From the scrum guide, the optimal development team size is 3 to 9 members. I have however read that the ideal team size is between 5 and 9. I am quoting the line I read from an online article.the...
View ArticleA change in the icons of the website - should it trigger a story?
Hi guys, We are currently facing a different situation here at the company. We are required to change the icons of a website to more modern ones. I would say that require a new story so testing can...
View ArticleNexus survey
Good day allI am looking for participants for a questionnaire i created for a thesis i am writing about the Nexus Framework. Anyone currently using or having used Nexus or any other scaling framework...
View ArticleIs the sprint goal mandatory?
I have been scrum master for a team for about half a year. Up until the last month, we never really took the sprint goal seriously, but after reading a little more we are starting to (with pretty good...
View ArticleReg Cross Functional Team and cross functional team members in Scrum
The Development Team in Scrum has to be a cross-functional team. Does it not mean that all the individual Development Team members HAVE to be cross-functional?A team is only as capable as it's...
View ArticleHow are PSM and PSPO different from PRINCE2 Agile® and PMI Agile Certified...
Can you please elaborate in detail? Which one is better. How are they different from each other?
View ArticlePSK and Value Stream Mapping
I am wondering why has Value Stream Mapping havent really been featured that much in Agile in general and its almost non existent in PSK, although its a common feature of Lean. My guess is that PSK is...
View ArticleUnassigned tasks
Bunch of tasks remain unassigned till half of the sprint is over, sometimes remains unassigned and undone too.Developers prefer to wait how the task goes in hand, which I feel is wrong, because its...
View ArticlePSM1 Assessment on scrummaster.co.uk
I have been preparing for the PSM1 assessment for the last two weeks. Mostly relying on the scrum guide and the blog posts that point to recommended resources, tests. Recently landed on the PSM1...
View ArticleCertifications vs Real Time Experience
Hi all Am currently working in scrum as in dev team. I want to upskill and do PSM1 certification and move as Scrum Master. In what level would certifications help if we dont have any experience as SM....
View ArticleOdd timing of sprint planning meeting
One of our development team members sits in UK. So, we conduct sprint planning meeting by our 2 PM. The planning meeting easily consumes more than an hour.Development team complains that because of...
View ArticleEmpiricism and Transparency
Can anyone shed some light or draw some references how Empiricism got linked to Transparency? Is this just an Agile/Scrum thing? I am guessing that Empiricism which is critical to scientific inquiry...
View ArticleHow To Handle Spare Capacity At The End of A Sprint
How are others handling it when you are coming up on the end of a sprint and it is clear that all the committed items will be completed by the end of the sprint and the sprint goal will be met and some...
View ArticleWhen does the testing takes place?
Dear Community,iam wondering when exactly the testing takes place during the sprint. Of course the Increment should be releasable and meet the DoD and therefore tested.But there are two aspects arising...
View ArticleWIP and Pull system to increase Cycle time, Kanban System (PSK) - The Boat...
There is an experiment introduced by Klaus Leopold in his book Practical Kanban (Recommended reading for PSK Cert) in Chapter One where he folds paper boats to show the improvement in Cycle time and...
View ArticleTasks for Functional Team
My question is how to handle the tasks for functional team. If a member of the team will make a documentation on Confluence page or make an analysis about a specific topic, should we create tasks for...
View ArticleRelative sizing of tasks and individual thought process
Scrum is largely hinged on estimating the size of a task using effort rather than time.For me this largely makes sense, particularly when sizing PBIs\Tasks where time is difficult to calculate.I think...
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