Some questions arose during a recent Retro... How should we handle technical assumptions during planning? (eg. assuming a third party service is easily...
Hello, How do you help someone understand the concept of Minimum Viable Product? I guess, in principle, it is easy to explain but how does one explain with...
This isn't really a scrum question, but I imagine people here would have some information about this. I'm investigating what software tools a new agile team...
Hello! I am new to the group and I am interested in discussing certain difficulties I have found in applying scrum and agile principles. What has been worrying...
I never realized how much agility drove "Old Blood and Guts". On team empowerment: "Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will...
Hi, In related to the discussion on the other thread about whether a Scrum Master should have a technical knowledge in software development, can the team...
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This year's Agile Games Conference <http://www.agilegames2012.com/> , scheduled for April 19-21st in Cambridge, Massachusetts, will be featuring an excellent...
Hi folks, Just a reminder to those who've been consider submitting to the User Experience stage at Agile 2012 - we'd love to have your submission but... THE...
Hi all, The 4th Scandinavian Agile Conference is now only few weeks away! It will all come together on 8th of March at the awesome Marina Congress Center in...
Hi, I'm having an offline conversation with someone who has taken the CSM course. He is a project manager by training, not in software. He appears to be a...
I'm curious as to what the community thinks about 2 weeks prints vs 3 week sprints, or sprint durations of any other length. The team I'm working with right...
We are announcing the second Scrum.org Agile and Scrum Webcast event, occurring next Tuesday, February 7th. Agile management consultant and the former Director...
Colleagues, I know this is a hoary topic, it's very muddled in my mind right now, so I hope you don't mind me asking for opinions. The current consensus where...
Hello guys! I am starting my career of Scrum Coach and I will do my first training in a company which is interested in to implement Scrum in its process. But, ...
Hello, Scrum community! My pleasure to participate! Imagine you are a ScrumMaster in a young team of developers. Suppose the team has a release demo in just a...
The call for speakers is open for fourth Lean Agile Scrum Conference in Zurich on September 12. This year's conference features keynote speakers Joe Justice ...
Our company is just starting to consider agile software development for our client projects. We have a whole department of traditional project managers...
I am planning to meet for an hour with each of our agile teams to lead a conversation. My intention is to ground them in the values of agile, and to have them...
How do you all deal with non-story PBIs. I have some new-to-scrum and new-to-Agile developers who have recently written stories like this: "As a developer, I...
We rotate one of our development teams to do support for a period of months. Their work is partly planned, and partly reactive. We have a triage process that...
Apologies if this is inappropriate for this group... I am trying to find a scrum team to hire for some contract work. I'm not having a lot of luck with google...
Hi, How you would define the acceptance criteria in SCRUM? Microsoft Press defines Acceptance Criteria as “Conditions that a software product must satisfy to...
I'm working on grooming my backlog and am working with a very green team. The following user story, slightly edited, showed up in our backlog this morning. For...
I am a project manager and I work for an IT department that has 5 developers. Those 5 developers are working on 4 - 5 projects at any given time. They are also...
Hi all, We're about to launch a new team on a new stream of work and we're going to be using Scrum. Some team members (the minority) have used Scrum before....
Agile advocates delivering business value as frequently as possible (from few weeks to not more than few months ). I have also read ( I think, Bas Vode and...
