... Yep, been there, multiple or rotating product owners on one project is trouble. A little less painful if there is clearly one product owner in charge and...
When you teach a team how to implement Scrum, you teach them to be self-organized. I don't consider there to be any 'letting' involved. Scrum teams are...
A couple of years ago I was hired to run the software organization and be an overall agile champion/coach at a company who's leadership had recognized the...
Might be a little off-topic but still helpful to the OP: Last time we had to create a backlog from scratch, I found that iterating over the product backlog...
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Hi friends! I'm a newbie CSM in a big brazillian project and I have 2 huge doubts: 1. How do you usually bug track in a sprint? These found bugs are resolved ...
Rafael, There are many correct answers to your question since every company or project or team could have something that works for them. Here are my suggested...
Ideally you want to fix as many bugs as you can in the same sprint that you find them. That should be your definition of done. This is really quite hard to do...
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Since Scrum is team based and you are evaluated as a team instead of an individual conributor, how are companies handling promotions and raises? Our department...
Yeah, it helps Alan! Thanx a lot! The only specific doubt that still in my mind is: I'm working in task A, that takes 8 hours to be finished. At hour 3 of this...
I wouldn't consider Task B an impediment to Task A. Typically, an impediment is something *outside* the team. In this example, simply move Task A back to "Not...
Agile development teams are like emergency response teams - they need to be ready to act quickly to new challenges and changing competition. At the "Deep Agile...
Agile development teams are like emergency response teams - they need to be ready to act quickly to new challenges and changing competition. At the "Deep Agile...
Rafael Nascimento schreef: The only specific doubt that still in my mind is: I'm working in task A, that takes 8 hours to be finished. At hour 3 of this...
While I missed most of this discussion, I'm compelled to point out this is perfectly normal, especially with complex work such as new product development. When...
Hi phenner, I think they are mostly groping in the dark ;-). Mike Cohn has identified the traditional HR dept approach with it's yearly (de)motivation...
This is an interesting topic. Personally I have never found the Human Remains department that engaging or interested in anyting other than their own dogma. ...
Evaluating individuals does not necessarily undermine the team nor only encourage competition. Do you believe that team behaviors and performance are in no way...
Hi Paul, ... Evaluating individuals might not necessarily do that; rewarding individual behavior typically does. ... Of course they are. The question is how do...
On 06.05.10 15:56, Paul Tiseo wrote: Evaluating individuals does not necessarily undermine the team nor only encourage competition. Do you believe that team...
Hi, phenner (and Peter), ... I'll give my view on this: 1. First some context. Our company is very pragmatic (not agile). Our development projects done...
