I do not disagree with you. This thread originally started out with the idea that "story points are lame," which I disagreed with. Next some compared points...
Hi all, and thank you for your feedback. Let me share some more with you on this case. In giving you more background. the management has been trying so many...
You are a product owner and you're about to kick off the next release. You're received input from your stakeholders, created stories and had them estimated by...
I agree with your rant - your reasoning is similar to my own. If you need more accurate estimates, you must pay for them. That is, you must do a lot of...
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Malcolm Anderson
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Oct 1, 2007 5:17 pm
If the the management team hasn't publicly acknowledged their role in the current situation (i.e. long history of top down induced fads), then it's...
Padhma, How do you defined failed for the purpose of your study? -- John-Mason Shackelford Software Development Coach Pearson 2510 North Dodge St. Iowa City,...
The best measures of Scrum success are satisfied customers and a healthy ROI for the business. We'd also like some measures which indicate whether a team has...
The idea of finding useful metrics for Scrum is not bad. But the risk is that you might just get what you measure. ... completed ... product owner. This is...
I sugest the metric "Story Delivered / Story Planned". Values near 1 suggest predictability. Higher values sugest under-commit and lower values sugest...
So what does the team think their "problems" are? It seems like management (and by implication, perhaps you as well) are saying "Scrum will fix all your...
You mean the velocity calculation, based on points, hours or stories delivered/planned? That you have with the burndown chart, in Scrum perspective. Regards, ...
(responding to Dan) Hi, Dan - it's been a while ;-) ... Clearly the answer is always to do "enough" up front thinking. It doesn't worry me that in a given...
Hi, I'm wondering what to do about the variability of our sprint lengths. It makes it a bit harder to monitor our velocity, but our PO has very limited ...
This is a wonderful example of how Scrum exposes weaknesses in an organization, which now has a chance to reconsider various options and the importance of...
Hi Wolfgang, ... No, unfortunately. He works part-time, and only about half of the time he's available to the organization is allotted to us. Effectively, that...
(responding to Emile) ... One thing I've had succeed on a RUP project might work for you? We assigned someone from our team to act as "Product Owner" proxy and...
Well, I suppose the fundamental question really is how important is this project to the company? If it is really important, then surely they can be made to...
... I like that. In our case, however, the person closest to having something that could be labeled BA skills without the rest of the group sniggering would be...
... That is a very good question indeed. Our project was started to automate the calculation of KPIs (Scorecarding) for units within our organization. These ...
Exactly. We've had several projects that were canceled within the first few sprints. The development team kept finding contradictions in the requirements, such...
I serving as the ScrumMaster to roll out the Scum approach win a government organization. The organization has traditionally used a waterfall approach, but...
Hi, ... limited ... lengthen ... at the ... I consider these things as one of those "just have to manage with" situations. You should keep trying to set up a...
Wolfgang has a very good list of why you should try to get to the regular release cycle. :) I agree with all that. Bring it to the attention of the PO. See if ...
... Same here. The fact that we aborted sprint 2 was probably the one of the best things we've done so far in our project. It sent a clear message that we...
Aaarrrrgghhh. Product Owners out of state. Why the plural? Is there more than one of them? If there is more than one, it would be (much much) better to find a...
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Malcolm Anderson
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Oct 2, 2007 4:23 pm
Have you tried a "Customer Report Card"? I'm not sure where I picked this idea up, but at the time, we were starting to use "This new fangled Scrum thing" in a...
I would expect that stories planned vs. delivered does not account for points, but rather is just a count of story cards. We're working on something similar,...
before we get lost in the fray, lets take a step back and ask whether this thread originated from the 'correct'/'advocated'/optimum usage of story points as an...
