What is the difference CSM and PSM
Hello everyone,Can someone please explain to me the difference between CSM and PSM in terms of the certification. My exam as a CSM is next week. Also would you advice that I take both exams if so...
View ArticleFeature teams / Component teams and co-location
Hello everyoneI am trying to get my head around feature teams vs component teams and thought this would be the best place to check my knowledge.Component team - a group of people whose core competency...
View ArticleKanban vs scrum
We have a team whose work is often dictated by customers whose requirements (or rather priority) may change at short notice. One moment, they need feature 1 added to the current sprint, but the next...
View ArticleAgile/Scrum for large projects
HiI have walked into a slightly strange situation. I am a Microsoft Architect, specialism is integrating solutions like Active Directory, Exchange, SharePoint and so forth into a corporate environment....
View ArticleTraining in Europe for indeep comparison of the famous 4 to 6 scaling scrum /...
Hi,I'm looking for a managment level training to help the attendes make a well informed decision which of the common scaling frameworks should be tried first, given a enterprise transformation...
View Articlepair programming and team building in non-colocated team
I try to help two scrum teams. In both scrum development teams there are 3-4 developers in northern Europe, 1 developer in eastern Europe and 1 developer in Africa. (I do not favour this setup. I would...
View ArticleMaximum Task Duration (In hours)
Hi All,I wanted to know if there's like a rule in scrum where a task duration under an user story cannot be estimated longer than 8 hours? Kind of a max duration a task can have.Any best practice...
View ArticleSprint and release planning questions
Hi folks, i work at a company which wants to do agile and use scrum. I also wants to drive it using scaled agile framework . I have a couple questions about release planning and sprint planning
View ArticleUser stories with multiple approaches
Hello,I've a simple User Story for a shop:As an Employee I would like to - retrieve the weight of the buyer's purchased product on my cash register - associate it to the right productIn order to: -...
View ArticleInter NIT visualization of dependencies
How two or more Nexus integration teams ie NIT's dependencies can be managed?
View ArticleWhom does the Scrum Master respond/report to?
So, fresh out of my PSM training I was explaining to a colleague the beauty of the framework, the roles and the split in accountability (PO for the product, Dev for the quality, SM for the framework)...
View ArticleAgile Leadership - How do you let self organization happen in this role?
Hi everyone.I am in the processing of getting my PAL but am struggling with the topic of self organization in this role. I'm not sure if I'm having issues taking my Scrum Master hat off and am...
View ArticleImplementing Scrum without an influencer
Firstly, I have looked through the forum to see if someone else has posted something along these lines, and while I have found that there are people talking about poor Agile transitions in their...
View ArticleRagrding regarding the product owner
Good morning dearsI have a question regarding the product ownerSuppose that we have an IT company A, and a customer company B that want from company A to develop a system for them (i.e. for company...
View ArticleProduct backlog items
Hi all,I'm a very new scrum master just starting my project. I was wondering if Business Analysis tasks/issues should be added to the product backlog or are those the responsibility of the PO and only...
View Article"Release Testing"
Hello all!We have the very common issue of stories being developed end up hitting QA at the end of a sprint, which leaves stories incomplete at the end of the sprint because there wasn't enough time to...
View Article3 Distributed Teams, new Scrum Master
Hello everyone,I'm a freshly minted Scrum Master (I was a teacher before) and I love this job. I get along well with the people I work with, and I like offering people new ways of thinking and...
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