Saw this on the side of a London bus and thought maybe Ken was pushing the boat out for the next Scrum Gathering... http://www.o2scruminthepark.co.uk/scrum.php...
If people aren't telling you about impediments, then either (a) they don't have any, or (b) they haven't yet grokked that they are personally committed to...
That's great. I feel sorry for anyone who takes their ScrumMaster training from here by mistake: http://www.scrummaster.com --Mike Cohn Author of User Stories...
Oh, I don't know. I've seen a few scrums where this could come in handy! :-) It would certainly aid the ScrumMaster in learning to deal with certain types of...
The problem is that they have plenty of impediments _and_ they are working very late nights. One thing mentioed in the CSM course was that it was difficult for...
... The above does not feel to me to be in the spirit of Scrum and Agile methods. Am I missing something? Ron Jeffries www.XProgramming.com Scientists discover...
The team has committed to delivering the features, provided that there are no major impediments that aren't cleared in a reasonable amount of time. If the...
It seems that this is saying that the only acceptable reason for not meeting the work in a sprint is because of an impediment, and it also seems an indirect...
... Well, it's more likely that I'm missing something. But I think commitment is definitely in the spirit of Scrum. The only part that I think isn't in the...
... So your problem is this: because of your work or local culture, or because of the personalities on your team, people are reluctant to rock the boat by...
... I could be wrong, but I had the impression that the feature set is always an estimate and that it is the sprint goal that is sacrosanct. I did NOT have the...
... That's not my problem. ... Not me. ... I was not aware that Sprint Goals were absolute commitments. I'm still not. Ron Jeffries www.XProgramming.com "Some...
... still not. My reading is that sprints are time-boxed so features would be dropped to make the time. Though if features were consistently be dropped that...
Strangely enough my initial attraction to SCRUM was due to the fact that I used to be the No 8 (SCRUMMASTER) for my rugby team. This would be heavenly to have...
Pete: I am curious, do you have a user/customer on the team? Do you have priorities set by a product owner? Have you as a Scrum Master aided the team and the...
This sounds to me like a situation where the "small steps" approach might be best. In other words, if the team is withholding impediments, it might be best to...
... I'm more than a bit concerned about an environment that claims to have focus on individuals and interactions, and on responding to change, yet tells the...
... I guess that goes to show that there are lots of different problems in the world. It reminds me of Tolstoy's line about all happy families being happy in...
... There are few notions expressed in the agile arena with which I disagree more than the above. Ron Jeffries www.XProgramming.com Do only what is necessary....
Ron-- Your understanding is correct. And there is always room to negotiate on exactly what a sprint goal means. Sometimes my teams barely make it, sometimes...
There's never a "massive amount of overtime." If something's wrong, it's wrong and something gets negotiated out of the sprint with the Product Owner. What's...
I don't find this speech inconsistent. One of the differences I find between Scrum and XP is how change is handled. XP allows the customer/product owner to...
I agree with Ron 100%. Forcing people to work overtime to ensure that the actual work done exactly matches the work that was planned is a characteristic of ...
... Nor does it get more work done, or better work done. Quite the contrary in most cases. Ron Jeffries www.XProgramming.com Keep away from people who try to...
... It's the part about "late nights" and signing up for the "backlog items" that seem to me to be inconsistent with what Scrum is. Let me go back to Pete's...
I'd have to be there to really know what you're doing, Marc, or what Pete is doing when he speaks similarly. So please don't take the following as being about...
I think this thread is confusing two things, and I only said one of them. I was talking about reporting impediments, not estimating accurately. Personally, I...
... What is overtime? 40 hr per week is a made up number. 50 hr per week is perfectly acceptable amount of time. There's no reason for a drop in quality at 50 ...
