Hello Jack, Yes, I agree with you that coaching is essential for the teams, especially new ones. I realize I have to improve in that aspect and have been...
Hello Gary, Thank-you for clarifying the distinction between self-organized and self-managed. I work in Brazil and certainly, as in the US, we don't easily...
Joshua, That's a great idea! I will try it out, it will probably make the team more aware that it up to them to keep things flowing well. Thanks for the...
Hello! I have a doubt about the need for tracking events that occur during sprints and ultimately through the whole project. I am scrum master in a large...
Hello Wouter, Thank-you for sharing this information. I am working to improve retrospectives for my teams and will apply your suggestion in the next one, to...
Scrum Master doesn't have any "authority" over the feature team. It helps to reinforce this idea if the team has the power to choose/replace the Scrum Master....
I have seen few occasions when the team wanted to replace the SM but management didn't allow. In one of teams @ my company , the SM was new to the job. Team...
I wanted to get the groups opinion on a situation that occurred during the holidays, the last week of December, 2011. I am the Scrum Master (SM) for two teams...
Ron Project Management is 2 parts: - product - process Management position is only a role not a function. If you consider PM as only blaming then this not PM. ...
I am the Scrum Master (SM) for two Scrum teams. The two teams work on the same software product and we utilize a common backlog for both teams. We do...
Here a "best world" example. Assumptions: each PO works in pair with her/his SM and vice versa Story: Senior Management didn't choose a SM because they choose...
... We already use Atlassian JIRA for issue tracking and CA Clarity for project tracking. Does anyone have any direct or indirect experience with either...
Joshua: Looks like you have a quality issue here. Is there an agreement between the stakeholders on "definition of done"? TDD is a good practice, but what is ...
Hi all, I've been trying to reconcile in my mind where the specialization and division of labor gains in efficiency break down in a scrum or an agile...
i have heard this many times :(. If team feels that they need a technical SM then i believe that rather than removing the SM we should question the technical...
Thanks Roman. Thanks for the clarification. What are your thoughts on Innovation games, which can be used for primary market research ? On Mon, Feb 20, 2012 at...
Hello Everyone, I am doing a little bit of investigating on organization structure, particularly team structures in software development. How are your teams...
Hi there, If the team is self organized, and they all like to be involved in defining product features and talking to end users, can we have the team take more...
Hello everyone! I am the Scrum Master on a project that aims to build a software to a specific segment inside the health care area. The problem is: I have a...
Thanks for these! I was preparing a presentation on agile for several government agencies and these quotes are going to be hugely popular with my target...
It's all great until you get that one commander who is a micro-manager, just like in civilian life, then all bets are off even in a war zone. Of course,...
Wasn't just officers! Morning role call or muster for whatever branch was key. Sent from my iPhone ... Wasn't just officers! Morning role call or muster for...
Some questions arose during a recent Retro... How should we handle technical assumptions during planning? (eg. assuming a third party service is easily...
Hi sisraj ... Why do you have two teams? R ... Ron Jeffries www.XProgramming.com I know we always like to say it'll be easier to do it now than it will be to...
When I've had teams working from a common backlog, I just get the teams to pick. In addition avoid specialization for all the usual reasons. Cheers Mark...
