In a Scrum/Agile environment how is the training and on-boarding of a new team member supposed to be accomplished? Should it be part of a sprint? Please let me...
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Rohan Sarker
pksarker_1943
Jun 2, 2011 12:52 am
We select Sprint Length = 7 Days, 15 Days, 30 Days depends upon the Work you are doing while implementing the User Stories and the Backup of Data in DAT /...
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Michael James
michaeljames...
Jun 2, 2011 1:10 am
... Really? We started with 30 days, years ago, and quickly went to 2 weeks. I agree 1 or 2 weeks is a better starting point nowadays. --mj ...
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Michael James
michaeljames...
Jun 2, 2011 1:33 am
... Let me guess: You just discovered the dissociated-press command in emacs? --mj ...
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Paul Tevis
ptevis
Jun 2, 2011 4:11 am
... I don't know if we did so effectively, but we used Alistair Cockburn's Elephant Carpaccio exercise for pairing during our recruiting process. We did five...
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David Koontz
dakoontz
Jun 2, 2011 12:02 pm
Our interview process at SolutionsIQ for many teams was to pair program with the candidate as an evaluation of the persons ability to program and team member...
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George Dinwiddie
gdinwiddie
Jun 2, 2011 3:50 pm
Hi, Avi, ... I've done this to great effect. Not only do you get a deeper idea of their ability and fit with the team, but they don't get stuck on small ...
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Charles Bradley - Scr...
charles_brad...
Jun 2, 2011 4:46 pm
Well, that kind of makes sense given your stance that all User Stories should be 2-3 days. I feel the same way about the one week sprints that I do about the...
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Dave Rooney
daverooneyca
Jun 2, 2011 5:10 pm
A technique I've seen used successfully is to have the team on which the new person will be working create a 'backlog' of all the things that person will need...
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Ron Jeffries
ronaldejeffries
Jun 2, 2011 6:39 pm
Hello, Charles. On Thursday, June 2, 2011, at 12:46:37 PM, you ... Not really. You just have to do it. I've never seen a team fail at it. ... I don't think I...
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Andrew Burrows
mrajburrows
Jun 2, 2011 8:19 pm
Hey Wouter, From what you're saying, it sounds like you're relying on longer sprints to hide inefficiencies in your current processes. Perhaps the team could ...
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avi_a@...
avinap77
Jun 3, 2011 6:09 am
Thanks all, sounds reassuring. I'll take a look into Johanna Rothman's site and the Elephant carpaccio exercise. Paul - 5 9 minute sprints? sounds interesting!...
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superartsy
Jun 3, 2011 12:05 pm
I am a Sr Developer + Project Manager of a small team. Our developer team consists of 2 other developers. We have 3 main products that each of us developers...
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And Gon
andgonro
Jun 3, 2011 12:08 pm
Hi, We do similar to Dave and try to assign "valued" tasks as soon as possible to the new member, although may not be critical for the first 2 sprints. Pairing...
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Wouter Lagerweij
wouterla
Jun 4, 2011 2:32 pm
Hi, Scrum can certainly work well for a small team. You should look at what you're currently doing, and decide on whether you want to try some different ...
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Michael James
michaeljames...
Jun 4, 2011 5:22 pm
This question made me think back to the time our team first tried doing Scrum. We can talk about sooner delivery, quality, ROI, and all that. But I think the...
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Michael James
michaeljames...
Jun 4, 2011 10:44 pm
I'm collecting your real world stories of bad ScrumMasters, to be published as a top-10 list. Please send them to me at mj4scrum@.... Be detailed, but...
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Miguel
micajeho
Jun 5, 2011 4:37 am
Hello I believe that some concept of SCRUM can be adopted in your context, but as he himself used to preach Scrum teams 5-9 developers, due to the fact that...
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avi_a@...
avinap77
Jun 5, 2011 6:54 am
Hi, Just wanted to post a followup on this: I introduced the idea to some of the team members and stakeholders and everybody was quite curious and enthusiastic...
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Paul Tevis
ptevis
Jun 5, 2011 9:14 pm
... Here's the exercise as Alistair describes it: http://alistair.cockburn.us/Elephant+Carpaccio+exercise For the audition, I paired with the candidate. For...
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George Dinwiddie
gdinwiddie
Jun 5, 2011 10:24 pm
Avi, ... We'd have three people working with them. One acting the role of Product Owner and the other two as Developers. We'd explain how we worked: pairing,...
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Cipson
cipsont
Jun 6, 2011 5:41 am
Do you have a QA Team ? If yes, make sure QA members also part of your SCRUM Team. Is it feasibile of 3 products x 2 developers + QA members form a single ...
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Ajay Rawat
a_s_rawat
Jun 6, 2011 7:09 am
Of course QA members should be part of any Scrum team but wWhat do you mean by 3 products x 2 developers? Thanks, Rawat....
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And Gon
andgonro
Jun 6, 2011 10:02 am
If you're a small development team in a small company working in different project I'd suggest that you not only use SCRUM as I'm sure that you'll have many...
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Cipson
cipsont
Jun 6, 2011 11:47 am
Supriya asked: " Our developer team consists of 2 other developers. We have 3 main products that each of us developers mainly develops for" In case they are...
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Ajay Rawat
a_s_rawat
Jun 6, 2011 12:04 pm
Ok, I am sorry for having missed the original scenario. You are right in asking the question about feasibility. They will also have to see if the team can...
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Jon Archer
jonarcher
Jun 6, 2011 2:50 pm
Hi all, I'm curious whether anyone has comments, advice etc. on the following... My team is working on a new product. We started off with a big list of ...
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And Gon
andgonro
Jun 6, 2011 3:28 pm
Hi Jon, In my experience, in a SW project, no matter how you manage it, you shouldn't have a fix release date + a fix amount of features to be released. If you...
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Jon Archer
jonarcher
Jun 6, 2011 3:36 pm
Thanks Andoni, Yes, sorry, I didn't make that aspect clear enough perhaps. Our product owner understands this and negotiates with other stakeholders so that we...
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Kurt Häusler
kurt.haeusler
Jun 6, 2011 3:48 pm
Just put it in the PB and call it a PBI. This implies it gets prioritized, estimated and planned like all other PBIs, and you avoid the dilemma of having to...
