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I strongly recommend against extending a Sprint. This has little to do with forcing anything upon the team and much more to do with getting to DONE and...
Hi Everyone, We are trying to put in placeSCRUM process for our teams which are located at US and India, and one of the most difficult part is on deciding the...
... BTW, I've seen teams do certain stories at the beginning of the sprint, taking them to done-done to meet a mid-sprint release, and then continuing with the...
... This is how I recall handling this while on a Scrum dev team. Acceptance criteria included "Deployed/released on x date", where x is within the Sprint. I...
... Per a chat with Chet: I would not at all recommend extending a Sprint while in the middle of it. I'm much less troubled by saying "This next Sprint will be...
We have similar situation and have Scrums daily (many on video). Ours are from 8:00 - 11:00 CST. This is earlier than some in the US like and later than some...
Usually, you'll want to demonstrate "working software" to Product Owners and stakeholders during sprint reviews. That's not too difficult for teams dealing...
I have a very tactical question and am looking for any advice from others on what has worked for them in the past. I have a team of 8 people, four in the US on...
Hi Jayanth, In general when trying to set up meetings for distributed team members, I start by asking three questions: What days/times work *best* for you to...
... 6 hours for sprint planning is a long time. Perhaps shorter sprints would allow you to have shorter planning meetings. It's much easier to plan a smaller...
Hi jayanthkalanje, here's a different kind of suggestion. Remove the "Framework Architects" from the team altogether (after all, there is no "architect" role...
Hello Jayanth, I also work in a project with a difference of 11 hours. What is certain is that you will loose a lot of time with the back and forth. I agree...
The best way to do this is to get the India folks, even just the more senior ones to come over to the US for the first 2 sprints. Get them acquainted with the...
How do the customers / stakeholders use the data today? I have been on projects like this in the past and yeah, there is *still* something that will get their...
Is "Don't do it this way" an option? What are some other options? Thank you, - Mike www.michaelvizdos.com www.implementingscrum.com On Wed, Jul 1, 2009 at...
Distributed teams can work with Agile. However, you seem to be describing a team where nearly all of the business knowledge is in one place (US) and nearly all...
It is very important that each of the major roles be represented in each location (i.e. dev and PO). Having all of the POs in one country and all of the devs...
Hi Hank, I have a similar problem but from Australia, we use an outsource company and the time difference is 6 hours (India is 6 hours behind us).. We also...
Beer and Pizza usually does the trick, Although this may seem silly it is very effective at capturing an audience . ________________________________ From:...
Hi, I need help in 2 things, 1. Can anyone help me to get an excel template to prepare burn down chart? I know it is easily available on net, but not able to...
This is a 'feature' team, working on a single feature set. Interesting this suggestion... it seems opposite to how I read the SirsiDynix and Xebia case...
Ok, so I'd like to paint a scenario here, to try to precisely reify what I don't understand about agile methods. Here we go: First, a waterfall scenario: the...
... I don't think agile methods try to mitigate scope creep, they try to embrace it. What they do is: 1. Invert the old quality/productivity "tradeoff",...
Andrew, <<So I could see where the customer would get the opportunity to choose among D-G, to say which ones take priority, but I'm still not sure what ...
If there is no scope, there can be no scope creep, so nothing to mitigate. Customers don't want "scope" they want high value working software. It can be as...
