One of the reasons to start this group is to connect people in China who are interested in Scrum and/or Scrum practitioners, and gradually to create a local...
For me (Larry), just started "Scrum" project from last month, now it is in second sprint. I only run it for some internal improvement projects, since changes...
Esther Derby here. I just returned from Shanghai where I helped two teams set up for their first sprints. We were very fortunate that the US-based product...
Hi Esther Derby:Are there any planning to publish the book "Agile Retrospectives" in Chinese or photocopy version ? And it will be nice if you can share more...
Larry, there's chinese version for Norman Kerth's book "project retrospectives", which should also be helpful, since most of ideas apply on agile retrospective...
It's indeed fortunate to have the Product Owners with the team. How does team plan to address the challenge with the Product Owner outside of China afterwards,...
... wrote: Hi, Larry-- I don't know of current plans to translate Agile Retrospectives into Chinese. I'll ask my publisher. It's out in Japanese, and the...
Hi, I am Xu Yi, call me Kaveri in short. I was in Lv Yi's team at the 2nd sprint. And became a scrum master at July 2007. The things most attract me would be :...
my thinking for ScrumMaster of contribution * let the team happy on using Scrum with me * remove all the barrier of their arranged tasks * lead them into agile...
On last Thursday and Friday, we had one CSM training in Hangzhou. One participant raised the case that in his Scrum team, many members are afraid of increasing...
I think both are related, and for my experience, company culture is much influenced. In the company, most business relies on commitment from customer side, and...
... correct, ... Do you really think that estimation can be correct as long as there are lots of efforts to improve it?:-) I believe more that to some point,...
perhaps first we should clarify, which level of the organization can help improving the estimation. Team member? Scrum Master? Product owner? Project manager?...
Hi, Lv Yi -- I see the same thing happen in US companies. Many people equate an estimate with a promise. That's one reason to keep the product backlog in...
Hi, I don't think it has anything to do with Chinese culture, nor company culture. It is the expectation of the user (or product owner), and their pressure for...
Any discussion about estimation and commitment should also include a discussion of velocity. Velocity (historical) should be telling us what we can commit to...
Good point, based on velocity we can make the commitment more accuracy. While as steve said, product management can't wait so long time as they need to do...
I also think velocity helps, but the reality is no. The velocity is for a constant team, the members are not changed. Then the velocity matters, otherwise no. ...
Hi, Though changing the team often makes it really hard to create a well working team. Should the team be changed that often? Especially, I hope the sprint...
In this situation, line manager can help to keep an unchanged team. And Product Owner and project manager can help on sprint length problem. And also they are...
I did not think we can solve it at team level, so I was talking in a wider scale. The scrum team does not have a project manager, but our program has, or it's...
With the time going on, the burndown chart in different sprint doesn't work as I expected. Scrum Dailymeeting works fine, Team members enjoy this activity,...
Oh, it's a hard task. Larry, my idea is you should try to get people away from e-version backlogs, which is well structured, also when printed, in a nice...
... Larry, the team did the task breakdown and estimation, is that not so? If they're working on tasks that are not part of that task breakdown, but are needed...
Yes, the tasks are breakdown by the team in beginning, but not fit to the reality with time going on. ... -- True software development embraces consistent...
... Are you using physical cards on the wall? If so, have some spare cards handy and people can fill them out on the spot. It's not really surprising that...
I use white paper to list the tasks like excel file (every task has one row), can we gain better effort to use Story Card instead ? It seems my team is not...
Larry, ... I worked with a team that did what George has suggested. The team had recently formed and the code base they worked on contained a lot of bugs (also...
Larry, I advise switching to using Task Cards within the Sprint. It's very easy to tear up an obsolete card or write a new one. During the standup, each...
