Just other day, I saw someone suggesting user stories of different types like business story, support story etc.Just wanted to know, if there is a category...
Hi, You are correct. Scrum does not recommend recording time spent for any user story during a sprint. Only time remaining is supposed to be captured as the...
Hi Dushy, ... You can categorise them that way if you want. However, they are treated similarly as far as Scrum is concerned. They are all added to a single ...
I learnt it from scrumalliance site that product owner is responsible for ROI. But I am wondering what is ROI in scrum and how do we calculate ROI? Has anyone...
I am also interested in the course.. Do let me know if there is any course.. Regards Parag Oracle logo.gif Parag Gadhia | Consultant | +91 22 6718 8192 (O) ...
Hi Dushy, In Scrum we do regular releases. The customer can deploy these releases and start getting some benefit from the software right after the first ...
Hello Dushy and Manoj: With regards to your question, my understanding is that you are looking for a way to bill the client and get paid. If yes, I think these...
Hi, Please share your experience/thoughts on following: What should be the approach/step by step method if a company wants to transition from Traditional dev...
hi refer some of the articles here http://www.goodagile.com/readings/ subhasis ... From: poojawandile <poojawandile@...> Subject: [Scrum-India] Approach...
Hi Pooja, You can refer to this link from Scrum Alliance for a list of reasons Why Organizations should move from traditional dev methodologies to adopting...
Hi Pooja, I wish there was a step by step guide :-) This is such a complex subject that it is impossible to give an answer without knowing your organization,...
Pooja, There is no one cookie-cutter method that one can prescribe to enable your organization's transition. I am sure this group can offer several suggestions...
Hi, You can also refer the book "Becoming Agile" by Greg and Ahmed. The book description says "Many books discuss Agile from a theoretical or academic...
Hey Guys, Thanks to all of you,this was my first posting on the group and I must say, I am highly impressed. The knowledge shared is superb, I had posted the...
... An external Agile coach can make a good impact. As others have already said, there is no one formula which fits all. There are many case studies available...
Hi Pooja: A plus 1 to everything recommended by fellow Scrum India members. I think the best way to take Scrum forward is by using Scrum. Make a backlog -...
It is nothing like that... People also practice XP, Test Driven Development as per their need.... However I advocate for Scrum because it is easy to accept and...
Scrum and XP/TDD are not mutually exclusive. XP/TDD are engineering-oriented set of practices. Scrum is project management oriented. They are complimentary. ...
Thanks All for detailed response. This makes my thought process about agile quite clear. Out of curisoity by seeing so many responses, I have one query...
The whole idea of story points is to decouple the size of the work from the effort. It's intentional. Lets say we have a task of moving 100 bricks from one...
Manu, Thanks for the response. You hit the chord, by saying “the team does the time estimates in the planning meeting.” and thats the point of discussion. ...
I assume you are the Scrum Master here. The Scrum master shouldn't direct the team with estimates or anything else. The SM should facilitate. What this means...
Hi Dushy, Can I ask a question: Why do you want to convert the story points into effort? How do you feel it will help your project? -- Siddharta Govindaraj ...
Govindraj, I have few things in mind so as to provide the effort estimates to scrum teams : For development, maintenance and testing projects/sprints, the...
Sometime back Mr .Siddharta Govindaraj has pointed this link in the mailinglist http://blog.mountaingoatsoftware.com/how-do-story-points-relate-to-hours This...