SAFe Agile breakdown
Can someone please give a simple explanation of what the portfolio level and value stream levels mean in SAFe Agile. I understand the program and team level. But I am having a tough time wrapping my...
View ArticleHow to plan and execute the activities for common platform required for your...
I am working on a product which which has dependency on a common platform team and one other team for multiple future sprints.As a scrum master, i know that there would be dependency on these teams in...
View ArticleFacilitation Guide
Please advice the most useful guides for a new scrum master that contains techniques for different scrum events. Sam Kaner is learned. Thanks!
View ArticleHow to help/guide your team when the project/product is put on hold?
Hi everyone, a new scenario for me! Our team's project has been put on hold and the final executive decision (continue or wrap it up) is taking more time than expected. The team has wokred together to...
View ArticlePSPO 1 Business Strategy
I've failed the PSPO 1 assessment with a score of 83.8%! Very frustrating! I scored 0% on Business Strategy so need to focus hard on this but am struggling to identify questions specific to this in...
View ArticleEBM Metrics
We are trying to implement metrics to support our movement to EBM. https://scrumorg-website-prod.s3.amazonaws.com/drupal/2019-05/EBM_Guide%20January_2019.pdf We would like to hear what other...
View Articletesting, story point and sprint completion
Our scrum team consisted of 2 developers and 2 testers and had the velocity of 21 with 2 week sprint.In one particular sprint, a tester had a planned vacation (not for the entire sprint but some part...
View ArticleProduct owner and acceptance criteria
This is my first time posting on here. I am a new scrum master in an organization who says they are using scrum. The problem is, it's waterfall stuffed into scrum events. The product owners are acting...
View ArticleTracking velocity
My scrum team added a ticket half-way into the sprint and spent 8 hours on it. Because they can't finish it by the end of the sprint, they want to remove it so it doesn't count against their velocity....
View ArticleCan we use Use cases instead of user stories in Sprint
My customer is coming up with use cases , and is not really interested in converting them to use cases . That being said even if the team comes up with user stories there may not be any signoff on...
View ArticleWho should determine capacity of the Development Team? Scrum Master or...
I have encountered a practice I've seen within two organizations I've worked with, where brand new teams are taught by Agile Coaches that the Scrum Master should calculate/determine the capacity of the...
View ArticleVelocity in hours
Hi,Can you explain in details why it is wrong to calculate Velocity in hours?
View ArticleGrooming
Hi,I have a question, does refinement participate 10% of the development team or is it 10% of the team time? In the guide I saw that is the capacity, would it be the quantity? And not the time, right?
View ArticleProduct Owner's involvement with the dev team
When a PO is not completely involved with the dev team and overall in scrum events, what's the ideal action for a Scrum Master?Should she coach the PO about scrum or wait to bring the issue up in the...
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