Add items to Sprint Backlog...
So I found this question:Juan is a product owner for a scrum team. He decides each sprint what items will go into the sprint backlog during sprint planning. He is growing increasingly frustrated with...
View ArticleThe importance of Semantics and its effects on change
Whenever I have worked with teams, I often try to educate them if they use the wrong terminology and in response I usually get told that the "semantics" don't matter or to stop being an agile/scrum...
View ArticleQA separate from development?
In the company that I work there is a motion to separate QA team from development and QA to report to product line manager. I think it's anti-scrum but I would like to hear what others think about...
View ArticleWhat SM should do if QA says he is not able to understand the story at the...
Scenario - QA guy not raised the alarm at the time of Product Backlog Grooming or Sprint Planning meeting and now at the time of EXECUTION (in middle of the sprint)he says that he is not able to...
View ArticleBug and the corresponding story moves to next sprint
Hi,While testing one of the stories in QA, the tester has found a bug however we are on the last day of the sprint. Am i suppose to move the bug and its corresponding story both to the next sprint?or...
View ArticleIs the Nexus Sprint Retrospective one or more meetings?
I was wondering whether technically the Nexus Sprint Retrospective can be seen as one big meeting to inspect and adapt how all teams work together, or as multiple ones:The Nexus Guide defines the...
View ArticleWhat work on the Product Backlog might the Nexus Integration perform?
The Nexus Guide states that the Nexus Integration Team "might perform work from the Product Backlog". What does this mean?Can they perform some actual integration work, or tool creation, or implement...
View ArticleFrom Scrum to Kanban
Hi all!I would appreciate if you could share the real experience of such case: first some months company used Scrum and later moved to Kanban as the only one. 1) what were the reasons to change?2) the...
View ArticleHow SM should handle this situation below -
Scenario - Its a 3 month project only, each Sprint is 1 month long.It requires technical skills which scrum team currently don't have.Time period of project cannot be extended to 4 months or so.We...
View ArticleDo we need to invite External Stakeholders to the Sprint Retrospective Meeting
Hello All - I was involved in one of the discussions with Team on whether do we need to invite External Stakeholders to the Sprint Retrospective meetings or not.? As per my understanding, the...
View ArticleIs Lean a way to becoming Agile? A framework under Agile?
In a recent discussion I was advised that Lean is a framework under Agile and that Lean helps in being Agile.I am not quite sure if Lean is a framework and I am not sure which is right; to say Lean is...
View ArticleDevelopment team is self-organizing, therefore their composition can be...
I've come across this question in a mock exam online. It's apparently a true/false kind of question.Development team is self-organizing, therefore their composition can be changed mid-sprint.My answer...
View ArticleWhat should be SM's take on below situation
Scenario - If client is having BRD (Business Requirement Document) which is 100% ready and they want to give work to our company.As a SM / Agile Consultant, should I suggest them to follow Agile...
View ArticleWhat organisation need to do if they are willing to transform into Agile?
Scenario - If SM / Agile Consultant need to guide a company which is currently following Waterfall approach to adapt the Agile approach, what are the main Pointers they need to work upon? Below are few...
View ArticleHow to decide the Sprint Goal in the very 1st sprint?
Scenario - As its a very first sprint, no past reference data is available in terms of CLIENT FEEDBACK or VELOCITY.So on what basis Scrum Team picks up the number of stories to work upon?
View ArticleIf the trend in the burndown chart in fluctuating like Up, Stagnant, Down and...
Scenario - Here I am referring to one particular sprint. Right from the beginning till the End of the sprint, I can see these patterns.But good thing is it comes to zero at the end of the sprint. But...
View ArticleHow to deal with multiple feedback items received in sprint review?
Scenario - Based on the Demo session at the end of the Sprint Review meeting, client came up with the list of feedback items ( say 10 items).How to deal with these 10 feedback items? As the list is...
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