I'm the scrummaster of a software engineering team that creates, updates and maintains production software used to generate data-products. We want to work on...
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Roy Morien
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Apr 1, 2009 8:20 am
I am sure that it is possible, but is it useful? It is a little bit odd that there is a backlog bigger than what can be planned for the next few sprints. There...
Hello, Paul. On Wednesday, April 1, 2009, at 3:44:17 AM, you ... Possible, certainly. Consequences don't seem good. Can you improve the build incrementally,...
Steve, first you stated (correctly) that, using either (a) or (b) the overall size points would be conserved, then you started worrying about the "loss" of ...
One of the articles under review for the upcoming issue of the agile journal describes the ScrumMaster's role as follows: the ScrumMaster's duties to the...
My 2 cents: First off, in saying the PO is "OK" with all of these things...are the C-level folks OK with it? More likely, they're not aware of it. Are...
I do not believe that have a team of generalists is a tenet of Scrum. As originally defined, Scrum only required a cross-functional team capable of delivering...
We elected 'b', and it worked fine. Sure, you don't get a "true" velocity, but velocity itself is a means to an end, not the goal of using story points. I...
Hello, We as a newbie scrum team are just finished our first pilot/simulation sprint. Our team didn't care about the burn-down chart and I think it's because...
I would say that this is a weak definition of the Scrum Master. Describing the role, in its entirety, relative to the Product Owner is a bad idea. A better...
I can definitely see why your team would be de-motivated by this. But, rather than ignoring it, use your backlog and your burndown as a driving force in your...
Congratulations - this is a great start. There are two obvious possibilities: - The stories were too large so the team wasn't able to identify all of the ...
... Agreed. This is an excerpt, not the whole definition. I was asking about this part of the definition. Do you see the ScrumMaster as being the conduit...
Scrum for Managers by Mitch Lacey Most of us have heard of Scrum and some of us have probably run some projects with it. It calls for cross functional, self...
... The Scrums that I have seen be the most successful are the Scrums that have the Product Owner as part of the Team. If we wanted to talk about conduits, I...
Hello, inanc_gumus. On Wednesday, April 1, 2009, at 10:18:10 AM, ... What would the team need to learn to do better so that the chart would be useful? Ron...
I agree with you, Mark. I am not sure if the overhead of splitting stories and then calculating the balance is worth the effort. Its easier to communicate the...
... A single person acting as "hub of communication" for the team is generally a bad idea for any agile project. Developers, Testers, Product Owner, etc.,...
Then why do all this work and then cop out at the end. Stay with conventional practices folks. We need people with this kind of thinking to not consider...
Hi Paul The objective of the team would be to satisfy the PO(Hope he is funding the job).If you think the team will have a lot more time in the sprint,you can...
Ok, I admit, "enforce" was too strong of a word for what a ScrumMaster does.. An earlier version of this team did in fact do Scrum, then about 6 months ago a...
Reading this post gives the distinct impression that you perceive there are rules to how Scrum works. My understanding is that there are guidelines and...
I don't know if it's ok or not, but it happens and that's the main point We (as a team) defined for this current sprint a task called "rename objects in the...
Nicolas, Is the PO supposed to see tasks (HOW)? Isn't (s)he only interested in stories (WHAT) and estimates/commitments (HOW MUCH/WHEN)? Regards, Pablo Emanuel...
... Right. What some, including myself, have advocated is that you size up the remaining work and give zero credit for work in the current iteration that was...
Hi Nicolas, Do you think renaming objects in a model would take a significant amount of time? It doesn't *sound* like a big deal, on the surface. If not, then...
... [...] ... +1. It's the PO's decision, and if the team believe it's an real issue they can provide information about the impact of the issue so the PO can...
