Highly efficient team members with multiple behavioral issues
I have been recently assigned to an additional scrum team (Size = 8) as a scrum master. I was told that the team was very hard to work with given their past in terms of behaviors, and it was more like...
View ArticleNew Product - How to prioritise when PO prioritises all features as high...
When delivering a new software product, and having already chunked up the work into releases (such as an MVP) how should the Product backlog for a release (or MVP) be prioritised?The conversation, from...
View ArticleStories/Enablers for Deep Dive and Education in Backlog
Hi all,it will be interesting to know how you manage activity inside the team that also took some capacity but affects the outcome value and product functionality not directly? For example, someone in...
View ArticleNew to scrum- how to start
Hi everyone,I am graduated as analyst programmer but I didn’t work as developer. In fact, My internship was related the the management of It project. I work now in an organization where they have...
View ArticleShould managers participate in Retrospective meetings
There are managers that insist on being part of the Retrospective meetings. Let’s analyze this further and then the reader can decide for themselves as to what is the best practice. Firstly, let’s...
View ArticleImplementing Evidence Based Management in Team level
Hello All,I read the EBM guide. It provides details about implementing EBM in organisational level.I am thinking about implementing EBM in team level.Is anyone has experience in implementing it in team...
View ArticleScrum only for complex products?
Recently I have come across defining Scrum as a "framework for creating complex products" many times. It's even in the Wikipedia: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scrum_(software_development)I might be...
View ArticleWhen to raise an improvement on user story?
Hello everyone,I want to discuss a topic here or rather really needs your valuable inputs on one of the topic which occurs repeatedly in my team. In a running sprint, if there's a user story which is...
View ArticleHow to set sprint goal with multiple deliverables
Hi All,We are working in scaled agile project. In that, usually our scrum team has multiple functionalities that are delivered in a sprint - which are planned according to Program Increment. So we were...
View ArticleScrum team looking to PO to give them the 'how'
As a PO I am part of a scrum team which has recently lost senior experienced developers with no replacements yet in place. The team can no longer be described as competent. In addition to the 'what'...
View ArticleTips on learning this very specific subjects that are not in the scrum guide.
I am still unable to pass the PSM 1. I am getting better and better. But now I’m stuck in these areas.Product Backlog ManagementForecasting and Release PlanningStakeholders & CustomersPlease let me...
View ArticleProduct in pre-prod, QA not part of sprint
Hi all,I wanted to share an issue I am facing at the moment.The product I am working with is in pre-production, with the soft-release set end of year.The product director decided to not have QA testing...
View ArticleCraft a sprint goal when objective requires multiple sprints
Hello, I'm a scrum master in a small software house. The team I'm part of is struggling finding the next product goal and I'm not sure how I may help them.
View ArticleForming a study group
Hello, I am aspiring to be a scrum master and I am preparing for it. I would like to make a small interactive study/practice group (3 to 5 people) to power up the learning. If there is anyone who is in...
View ArticleScrum and BI project
Hi,I am working on a small BI project, my client wants me to use Scrum to achieve this project of course the first thing we need to do is to know what we gonna do what are the KPI, Dimensions so we can...
View ArticleScrum Team
I came across the question below in a site.Based on what I read on the scrum guide about the Definition of done, I picked True as the answer but the site says otherwise.They picked false as the answer....
View ArticleSAFe Scrum Master Certification
Hi everyone,I would like to prepare for the SAFe Scrum Master certification and I wanted to ask if someone could recommend a suitable course to prepare for the syllabus and the exam.Many thanks in...
View ArticleMagic Estimation and the right comparison stories
Hi folks,I am in a Scrum Team and we are working with Azure Devops for our Taskboard and Backlog. Now we have found the issue in the Retrospective, that we need new comparison stories for estimation...
View Article4+ Years of Scrum Master Experience - Next Steps
Hi, I have worked across 3 different organizations and have 4+ years of Scrum Master experience.Questions - (1) Which books will you recommend to me for me to take myself and my team to the next level...
View ArticleHow to do Scrum in a DevOps team?
I'm leading a DevOps team and I've been applying the Scrum methodology to do so and in many ways it works really well. There are a few difficulties that I'd like to hear your thoughts about, however,...
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