How to Implement Scrum for Medical Students?
I am recently certified in PSM. In the education system, medical students have lot to cover in terms of syllabus, short of time, mostly in stressful situation. Looking to help such medical students...
View ArticlePSM I retake Q.
Good day.If I wish to retake the PSM I with the objective of getting a better pass %, is there a historical record with details of my previous score?Wondering because if I get asked in an interview for...
View ArticleOpportunity for Android
Hello Everyone, I have several interviews coming up on next week and the recruiters told me they might test my android knowledge too. What kind of questions should I expect from a fresher point of...
View ArticleWhen using story points to estimate should we reestimate things when not...
The questions comes to me from time to time from my teams and I do have some opinion but I'm not sure about it so I'd like to ask what you think about it, maybe you'll give me more arguments about...
View ArticleTeam engagement in Retrospectives
Hi,So currently my retrospectives are really poor. Almost no engagement at all. We have tried Stop, Start, Continue and Mad, Sad, Glad approaches. We have tried an online board in our agile tool where...
View Article1st Scrum Master role....
So I was just offered my first actual Scrum Master role. I've played the part earlier. But this brings a whole new level. How do I know I'm doing a good job, and being effective for the team?
View ArticleWho's owns UAT in Agile, regardless if it's Scrum, Kanban, etc...
Who's responsible for performing UAT in Agile? Does that responsibility sit with the squad (PO, SM, Dev team)? Since the PO is responsible for user stories, wouldn't UAT sit with them, since User...
View ArticleUser Story story pointing
User Story story pointing is hard to apply.... development team consists of developers, testers. While development team story pointing the user story, how the story pointing should be applied in...
View ArticleDaily scrum : Best location ?
We are currently discussing how to select the Location of the daily scrum. As a SM I do prefer to have the Team selecting it, but I could also imagine to gather around the scrum board. What do you...
View ArticleWhat is affecting the outcome of a sprint?
Currently we are discussing what is mainly drivig the outcome of a sprint. I (as the SM) stated that only skills and working relationships of the people on the Scrum Teams has an impact. My colleagues...
View ArticleImprove velocity by additional team?
My management wants to increase the development of a new product and thinks about setting up a second dev team. Based on my understanding of Scrum the velocity of the existing team will not raise as...
View ArticleDealing with uncertainity when sizing stories. Spikes or bigger user story...
Hi,I am a relatively new Scrum Master and I am dealing with sizing stories with a team of programmers which are Juniors.At certain user stories the programmers are not able to size the case, since they...
View ArticleScrum in System Administrator Environment
Hello Scrum Masters et al,I was made aware of the PSM certification and passed it within 48 hours. I'm trying to figure out how to implement it in my environment. I have three teams in my...
View ArticleWhen I failed as a Scrum Master and gave up
Hello everyone !I've been a Scrum Master for a luxury company for 1 year now. Before that, I was a Project Manager, then Scrum Master, then Agile coach as a freelance, and for the first time as a Scrum...
View ArticleP.O. Certification and Questions
Hello! Currently, I'm studying for the P.O. Certification I. I have a very positive score (around 90% of correct answers) for the Scrum Open to receive the First Level certificate as Product Owner.The...
View ArticlePreparing for PAL-1: beware PAL-1 Certification unlike the Open Assessments
I feel the PAL-1 Open Assessments do not accurately reflect the Certification test. I took the Open Assessments a couple of times, both to see what the test felt like and as a "warm up" to the actual...
View ArticleWhich roles PO or SM has bigger challenges to put it in practice by the book?
What do you think which roles PO or SM has bigger challenges to put it in practice by the book. My thinking is that PO is little less complex role than the SM. We can comment that further more if you...
View ArticleSolve problems in enterprise
Our organisation created some agile-teams. Do you know methods/ tools, which helps environmentally to escalate problems , which appears when agile-teams interact with another calassic departments in...
View ArticleSplitting the stories and points treatment to the overall velocity % during...
Hi all,My team has loaded sprint1 with 100% for example and has 2 stories incomplete.First story is a 5 pointer and has 2 defects associated which is dependent on third party teams and not the scrum...
View ArticleProgram: Buy versus Build
Our organization is going through the process of trying to determine whether a multi-year deliverable should be bought from a vendor or built internally. The result so far is it is looking more and...
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