What happens with not completely defined items in the backlog? And with old...
Hello! I work in a very small company with an even smaller dev team that we use some principles of Scrum to organize our work and the shipping of newer versions for our products. Our PO works part-time...
View ArticleHow to encourage teamwork instead of individual focus?
How would you encourage teamwork when your team seems to be working as individuals?I'm a Business Analyst in a team and I'm experienced with Scrum. I'm not the Scrum Master but I try to encourage Scrum...
View ArticleWe're failing to deliver the release on time and it's not being deployed
For the 4th release in a row we have not managed to cut the release at the end date, it has rolled on for weeks due to quality issues.We have not deployed the last 3 releases to customer either.What...
View Articlescrum master applying good judgement and logic
give an example when as a Scrum Master you applied good judgement and logic to solve a problem in an organisation
View ArticleSprint length changes for Sprint goal
We normally follow 2 weeks sprint. This time PO said we have simple goal so we should go with 1 week sprint. The team also agree after sizing the items and commits that sprint goal can be achieved in a...
View ArticleHow does very large technical items like containerization get prioritized by...
Very large technical items which do not necessarily have immediate value to the user such as Containerization are very difficult to get prioritized.How do organisations get items like this to done e.g....
View ArticleTraining Classes Advice
Apologies if this question isn't allowed - feel free to remove it! If you could afford to pay for the Scrum Master II class (around $ 1400) would you do that over the IC Agile Coaching &...
View ArticleIs It Normal To Feel Chaos and Like An Outsider as an Agile Coach
I've been an agile coach for about 9 months and lately I feel like my team is really performing and working well together. This makes me happy as it is the goal for my team and the organization I work...
View ArticleScrum is not a methodology
Hello to the nice community, i am reading your helpful posts for weeks now and thought it's time to post my 1st topic :)I am preparing for my Scrum certification and already sent out 70+ Resumes to...
View ArticleUser stories and the DoD
One of the PSD open assessment questions asks "Should User Stories be part of the documentation generated by a Scrum Team?"Now as Scrum does not prescribe the format for PBIs I chose the answer...
View ArticleThe Scrum Master`s role in Sprint Planning ?
Who is taking control of the Scrum Board/Software (say e.g. JIRA) ? The PO or the Scrum Master ? Talking about the backlog items selected for the sprint, does the developer choose und pull the task...
View ArticleEstimate retro action items
HelloI am on a scrum team and we are ‘tracking’ improvement action items from our retrospectives on the product backlog so they are visible. We add them at the end of the retro to the product backlog...
View ArticleScrum and\OR Kanban
Hi !I'm a Product Owner working in a with a development team in a company where we need to handle small-sized requests, questions, support. In addition to bigger sized requests such as integrations...
View ArticleHow to manage non-constant release days in Scrum?
Hello. I would like to hear some advice from pros :)Problem #1: We have a release project that we post for users every 3-4 weeks. Four teams work on our project, all of them working with different...
View ArticleDependency between user stories
We have set of product backlog items planned in the sprint. Couple of stories are dependent on each other. Though the 'INVEST' criteria is applied for the stories as much possible, still there is...
View ArticleScrum Master Career Path
Hey Community!I have been in this dedicated position in since April last year and I have been incredibly happy lately with my job description & daily activities which made me wonder what the...
View ArticleHow to deal with Ready To Deploy in Sprint Backlog
I have a difficult question about how to deal with the ready to deploy user stories in the product backlog, as well as in the sprint backlog.My current Kanban board is below:
View ArticleFormat of Retrospective
In the previous version of Scrum guide, there were 3 questions to discuss in daily call. But it was removed as the developers can decide whatever structure they want.Sameway I see for retrospective, it...
View ArticleComplicated capacity estimation
Hi there! I'm helping manage a program of four "advisors", all of whom are working on independent projects.We have multiple (Asana) boards: one for program-level tasks (documentation, and separate...
View ArticlePACE Framework?
I worked in a small software company, where designers and testers are shared across small teams. There are dependencies between teams and occasionally bottlenecks of key persons. Thus, no real "Scrum"...
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