What are the Technical & Non-Technical Skills required for Software Tester?
Non-Technical Skills* Analytical skills: a good Software tester should have sharp analytical skills. Analytical skills help divide a complex software system into smaller units to gain a better...
View ArticleHow can I get a Scrum master job
Hi I just recently completed my PSM training last week with a scrum.org instructor and I passed my PSM 1 with 95%. How can I get a job as a scrum master when I'm a Microsoft BUSINESS INTELLIGENC, BI...
View ArticleTracking growth with Competencies
Hi Everyone,After passing both PSM I and PSPO I assessment, I was looking at the result I received.While the assessment result does a great job of communicating the focus areas where I should...
View ArticleDoing scrum with Kanban board
Is it possible to work with Scrum, I mean all events, artifacts, etc but work on Kanban board? Thanks!
View ArticleHaving a separate Sprint for development and QA
Hello,Our QA is having this problem of nothing having anything to do while the developers are coding and the he get suddenly flooded with work 3 days to the end of the Sprint which he struggles to...
View ArticleSmall survey on SM/PO.
Dear Scrum Masters and Product Owners,I've started to write a book on Scrum Mastery in theory vs practice. Theory is picture perfect, practice is not always perfect on the same level. Outside of the...
View ArticleHow is working as a Scrum master at capital one
I recently got a full time offer from cap1 as a scrum master. I was extremely excited at first because capital one is known as the "holy grail" for scrum masters. But after looking into the company,...
View ArticleThe PSPO II & the PAL Certification
Hi Everyone,Before I ask the question I intend to, here's some background about myself.My name is Vaibhav, and I have recently joined this wonderful community. I have been practicing scrum for over 7...
View ArticleCross-functional team members load
Hi everyone, I searched through forum but did not found an answer to some simple question.Imagine I have following scrum team within the organization:1 Backend dev, 1 Frontend dev, 1 QA, 1 UI/UX. This...
View Article"95% done item" and velocity calcatuion
Hi!For the sake of this example, consider that a scrum team uses story points and for some all PBIs have 10 story points.During Sprint1, the team had selected 2 PBIs, one met definition of done, and...
View ArticleHow do you introduce yourself as a Scrum Master?
Hi All, As they say, first impression is the last impression so I want to know from the community about how do they introduce themselves as a scrum master to anyone they meet at work or if a new team...
View Articleis Scrum a method ?
Hi,Sorry for the inconvenience, I know there are many posts about this subject.I've read articles about...
View ArticleThe Agile Team Composition Framework
Hi community, wanted to ask your feedback for the below mentioned framework. Please note, that it is not conflicting with Scrum but might be used in addition to it. The Agile Team Composition Guide...
View ArticleSpike/investigation story management
Hi Everyone, I am interested to know how scrum teams manage investigation stories (aka spikes). Very often our PO requests a feature development/improvement that needs first investigation and then...
View ArticleInterrupt workshop for Daily?
Hi together,We have a project that we try to keep it completely to the Scrum framework. My role is company representant and technical architect, we have an additional Scrum Master. Yesterday we had a...
View Article'Scaring' my audience by being unrealistic
Hello - I've been a scrum master for several years now and have commonly been referred to as unrealistic or as an idealist.
View ArticleReports for future planning based on Story points ?
I have some doubts on below - So, we have a structure for our PBIs - Feature->Epic->Stories Currently my PO is maintaining a report where all story points linked to all stories are realized into...
View ArticleWhat is the best model for hiring suppliers that best match with Scrum?
Hi everyone,The company I work for is thinking to adopt agile method to some projects.However, our type of contract IT suppliers still being on a defined scope model which is not so flexible in case of...
View ArticleShould there be Slack in Scrum?
The scrum guide does not mention anything about slack. Does this mean that the teams are being given the freedom to allocate a certain percentage of their capacity as slack?In my opinion, some amount...
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