Backlog Prioritization
I've been reading Mike Cohn's book on Agile Estimating and Planning, and he discusses different types of prioritization:Prioritizing themes (based on Value, Cost, New Knowledge and Risk)Financial...
View ArticleSpotify Model
HiWhat do you think about spotify model? In some cases ,i think spotify model conflicts with self-organization and commitment. Is there any evidance usabilty of tribes and guilds are usefull for any...
View ArticleScrum Master: Facilitate, Coach, Mentor, Teach
Can someone please explain real life situations in an agile (specifically Scrum) environment when to use coaching, teaching, mentoring and facilitation and why to use the specific approach as opposed...
View ArticleHow can we measure the working software?
Working software is the primary measure of the progress of the Scrum team. Being said that how can we measure the working software?
View ArticleAgile High-tech Product Development with a very mixed Group (Seniors & Novices)
Hello Scrum Masters,I’m already a (certified) Scrum Master of a SW Development group and I’m going to/have to establish an agile product development process (Scrum is favored) with another group with...
View ArticleScaled Scrum Review Meeting Methods
Hi,Could you please suggest me a review method for 6 different scrum teams? Our PO's and stakeholders also attend our sprint reviews. But from stakeholders we have got a feedback about improvement of...
View ArticlePSM I and PSPO 1 - Why the overlap
I passed the PSM-I a couple of months ago and today I passed the PSPO-I. Woohoo:) From everything I read, I expected there to be a lot of overlap, and there was. But this had me wondering, why...
View ArticleHiring a Product Owner : Mobile vs Web Apps ?
From a Product Owner hiring perspective, what could be the major difference between Mobile App and Web Development App?Let's say i am hiring a Product Owner, who has more experience with web apps than...
View ArticleHold the Scrum event in abnormal cases?
Dear everyone,We are implement a software development project in a outsourcing company. Customer assign tasks for us each 2-3 days. For each tasks, we plan immediately and develop the product (small...
View ArticleForming a cross functional team - moving from "Developers" & "Testers" to...
Good morning all!I have a case study I'd love to share and get feedback on. I've also got a very specific question: how best to go about building a cross functional team in terms of blending the...
View ArticlePlaceholders in backlogs
Hi there,This is my first post on the forum.I am a Product Owner (with just a couple of years of Scrum experience) who has recently joined a new organisation that has been practicing Scrum for circa 10...
View ArticleToo many daily standup meetings?
I'm a Project Leader with a new software company and I'm facilitating all of the daily scrum meetings. We currently have 3 separate sprint teams with 3 separate daily standups. We used to have one...
View ArticleBest SM confernce?
As a new SM, eager to learn more about my role and ways to improve it... Are there any conferences you would recommend? What conferences have you attend that you found to be the most beneficial?Thanks!
View ArticleHandle Arrogant Seniors who are new to agile environment
Hello All,I had appointed as scrum master for one the Dev teams who works on Artificial Intelligence and Data Science.All the team members are experienced more then 12+ years , And 2 of the candidates...
View ArticleTechnique to estimate Spikes
Dear All,I knew the story points for user stories will be given by dev team, But as a scrum master do I need to support them to pick particular techniqueOr do I need to take a charge and use any...
View ArticleCheck lists for transition before replacing Senior Scrum Master
Hello All, I am going to replace a Senior Scrum Master and take the charge for the team who are good enough to take care about themselves in Agile Scrum.Can any one please help me in knowing what are...
View ArticleProduct Roadmap and Jira Portfolio
I have an interesting challenge around my Product Roadmap (I'm a PO). As a scrum team we've been moving to more modern agile practices like only refining stories just before a sprint, not estimating...
View Articlehow can i add daily repeat works to my scrum todo table?
Hiwe have a team that use scrum to our software development.some works like update our website and release of content are the daily works that always must be at "InProgress" part of scrum "ToDo" table...
View ArticleScrum Team Health KPI's
Several teams I work with have some metrics they capture each Sprint. I don't agree with most of them and so I want to pose the question... What kinds of metrics do you use to represent the health of a...
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