Hi everyone, We have two products owner, one of them knows very little about software development. At the beginning, she was coming to the retrospective but as...
Hello, Marko. On Wednesday, December 31, 2008, at 7:03:16 AM, you ... Some issues that seem quite common in retrospectives, bearing on the PO: - had too much...
... Hash: SHA1 ... For a sensible and precise interchange of information to happen the Product Owner does not have to be present for the Retrospective. That...
Hi everyone, I thought the discussion about P-O's and Sprint Retrospectives was pretty interesting. I'm curious what teams really do. To that end, I have set...
Hello, aacockburn. On Monday, December 15, 2008, at 11:00:28 AM, ... Yes, business value is the PO's call. And IMO the PO should consider reduction of risk as...
Hello Ron, For this to happen, doesn't the PO need some way to evaluate risk without undue developer interference. With 'undue' being the operative word. chet...
On Fri, Jan 2, 2009 at 10:46 AM, Chet Hendrickson ... Aren't there really two kinds of risk here? There's business risk and there's technical risk. It is up to...
Hello Adam, Friday, January 2, 2009, 2:06:54 PM, you wrote: I believe there is only business risk, or at least only one we should care about. If a technical...
Hi Chet, The PO needs to be brought in the discussion with the team and understand the risks and trade offs to make informed decision with the business and/or...
Happy New Year! I hope that everyone had a great time during the holidays. I have some exciting news about our first meeting for the DFW Scrum User Group ...
On Fri, Jan 2, 2009 at 12:36 PM, Chet Hendrickson ... Well, you are still talking about technical risk. My point is that the customer is managing their own...
... Yes, and the flip side of this coin is when the PO dismisses risk without understanding for themselves because it's too technical or because they don't...
Our company is medium size company and our main product is in Enterprise software. I convinced our R&D division (about 150 members all over the world) to...
I will be out of the office starting 01/03/2009 and will not return until 01/04/2009. I will be checking voice and email occasionally. If urgent, please...
I think that who attends the retrospective should be more a function of the particular history, culture and personalities of the people than be a hard a fast...
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Roy Morien
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Jan 5, 2009 12:49 am
I find this discussion about 'forcing Scrum on the developers' to be rather interesting. Whenever I joined a new organisation, I was never asked 'Oh, what...
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Ivo Verus
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Jan 5, 2009 2:16 pm
Happy New Year to everyone I've very simple question. I know that this had to be discussed here earlier but unfortunatelly I cannot find it in my archieve, so...
Hi, Feedback solicited... While in Atlanta giving a course, I will be giving a free presentation at the Agile Atlanta group on Business Value Engineering. If...
Hi, I have situation considering Scrum metrics. I use team velocity based on user story points. Everything works fine, but when I take a look at individual...
How did you assign points to individuals? Are you sure this individual is not contributing, in any way, to stories you are not giving him/her credit for? ... ...
First of all, I wouldn't commit anything about this story until it is 100% clear to development team (100% what, not how). Simply, I would advice developers'...
Sorry for a scattered reply I've very little time today and to many things to achieve. Be very careful - are these "non-producers" really the glue that holds...
All guys from the developers' team estimated user story points. PO did the prioritization. Every team member is taking story by his/her own will, considering...
A few things could be happening. 1. You may have found a slacker. 2. You may have someone that underestimates tasks. 3. You may have a careful team member that...
... Nope. To all those questions. ... I'm aware of this. That's why I bring this up to this group. On the other hand, keeping this guy around could destroy the...
I didn't bring this up to team. I'm aware that this is not good and I shouldn't keep it under the carpet. But on the other hand this is pretty sensitive...
... No, that's half the *average* of the others. What do the other developers actually do? (I.e. what's the distribution? Developers vary in productivity -...
... I don't think that this is the situation. This is repeating through 3 1-month Sprints and all tasks are estimated by whole team and all guys are picking...
Hello, Marko. On Monday, January 5, 2009, at 12:37:47 PM, you ... In Scrum, the //team// commits to the backlog, not individuals committing to stories. ...
