Regarding sprint period extension?
Imagine that I have to extend the timebox for Sprint 1. So do I have to decrease the number of days from the next sprint. Like this.Sprint = 10 days Sprint 1 : 12 days ( imagine that timebox...
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Currently I am working as a Scrum Master, what certification I should earn now which will help me in my career path?
View ArticleLearning Agile Mindset
Hi,I want to make a workshop combined with agile mindset ,roles,ceremonies , agile development ways. Also my main purpose is to teach to 5 development teams what they understand is wrong about agile ....
View Articlecertification exam
I am happy to announce that I have cleared my PSM-1 exam in my first attempt with 87.5% and I owe it all to the awesome assessment tests online. In addition to scrum.org's assessments, Mikhail...
View ArticleHow to deal with power mad dev team Line managers who are part of developer...
On a recent project I was running three scrum teams at once, I coached them on agile & Jira, coached stakeholders as well & we saw great improvements in velocity, transparency, value delivery...
View ArticleContent over tools
Hey everyone, I thought I would write a small thing that I learnt that really helped my Scrum Team. Like many teams we use Jira, and our Daily Scrum became an exercise where the teams would just move...
View ArticleCoaching the individuals
Hi,Sometimes I am trying to solve individual motivation and commitment issues. Like, one of dev team member is always toxic. I try to make calm him, suggest brainstorming in any topic. Of course I...
View ArticleRough estimation of high-level ideas
Hello there,I've run into a methodological (and slightly ideological) issue with estimation of barely refined requirements. Our team works with implementation of an ERP system. At the moment we employ...
View ArticleSM behavior during daily
Hi everyone, I have a question, as as scrum master during the daily scrum i noticed one member of Development team tend to discuss in a lot of details consuming 50 percent of the time allowed to the...
View ArticleWhat to do with a task in next sprint....which is "finished" but not "done"
Hi! My name is Peter, nice to meet you.In my new team is usually to have this problem and i have doubts how we should to do in this case. To stay in context, we have a board with the next states:To Do...
View ArticleScrum Master with coding knowledge
Hello Everyone, Does a scrum master need coding knowledge as I could see in many job description asking the scrum masters with knowledge of programming languages like Java,Python etcThanks &...
View ArticleScrum Master without experience
Hi Everyone,I have completed my scrum certification in December, now that I am looking out for job I couldn't get any because I don't have any experience. I couldn't see any junior scrum roles in...
View ArticlePercentage complete - timeline
In our organization we recently have shifting to using scrum and have always been required to track start and end dates to a project, percentage complete , indicate a reason if the date slips and...
View ArticleIn the middle of a sprint a PO introduces new features during the daily scrum...
As per my understanding, "introduce" means informing the team of upcoming features. Is it wrong to do so? It gives the team some time to think about it, and come up with a plan to discuss or even...
View ArticleHelp a PO writing User Stories
Hey there. I would like to hear from you about user stories. I know that the Scrum Guide does not say anything about the way PBIs should look, but most of us uses user stories and I would like to know...
View ArticleLength of a Sprint and Change in Time boxes of other events
Sprint Planning is time-boxed to a maximum of eight hours for a one-month Sprint. For shorter Sprints, the event is usually shorter as per scrum guide. What i understand is, It means for shorter...
View ArticlePreventing Executive Shiny New Tool Syndrome Disaster - help on slowing down
We are a small/medium IT shop at a university--60 staff and 30 student staff.We have over 2 years left on our 3-year contract with our ITSM tool. And we have almost a full year left on our PPM tool...
View ArticleWhat we need to do for managing a Product backlog
Hello everyone, I would like to ask a question relate to Product backlog management. According to Scrum Guide, Product Backlog management includes bellow activities:
View ArticleProduct increment as input of the Sprint Planning
The Scrum guide says about the Sprint Planning "The input to this meeting is the Product Backlog, the latest product Increment, projected capacity of the Development Team during the Sprint, and past...
View ArticleWhich should be a part of a Kanban board: Use Cases or User Stories Edited
Hi,I want to know which should be a part of a Kanban board: Use Cases or User Stories?The scenario is that we have issues in Jira and GitHub that are marked as use cases and user stories. We have...
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