Sean, The largest spike I've seen was around a person week as well. The team was moving from v50 to v75 of a 3rd party library when not a single developer on...
Here's what I have found, Often times teams have a large story and they can't break it down until they run the spike story. So the original story can be 20 or...
i still think there are metrics that you could track that would encourage the team agility but i don't believe you can do it with one kpi My opinion is that...
I find that best left to the development management side. They would pick the right cross section of people best suited for the development. we do this all the...
Cards and a Scrum Board works great. Stories can be captured in excel and you can templatize the backlog in excel pretty easily Tools like Agilebuddy are great...
Hi Sean, Sounds just fine to me! R ... Ron Jeffries www.XProgramming.com Everything that needs to be said has already been said. But since no one was...
... I agree they should be rare but I think there are _some_ situations where a "large, complex spike" is reasonable. As I said, most of our spikes are a day,...
Hello, To explain the concept to someone that wants to do a project, I'd recommend doing an exercise over the proposed project considering less and less...
Is this type of standardization & automation not what each of our developers do every day when they submit a bunch of code to the compiler? We have automated...
I've seen Mind-mapping tools used. But the best tool is pen & paper and lots of wall space. If you can visualize it on the wall - then your team can have...
Let the team decide - that is why you have a _team_ (as apposed to individuals). You also might wish to start referring to people as "staff" or "team...
Ergo, the size of spikes is proportional to the average story size, and the average story size should be kept as small as the team can possibly keep them, down...
Hi Sean, ... There really shouldn't be "large, complex spikes", IMO. I suppose once in a while one might be necessary, like if we had to configure a computer...
... This approach has served us well. Sometimes the spike makes enough progress that the actual work item is small, sometimes the spike shows how hard the task...
Sorry for the dup post...Problems with email lately. Â ... Charles Bradley http://www.ScrumCrazy.com ... Sorry for the dup post...Problems with email lately....
One small addition to what MJ already said well. The 2011 Scrum Guide changes the PO role in a small way that could have a big impact. Pre 2011 Scrum Guide,...
Two small additions to what MJ already said well. The 2011 Scrum Guide changes the PO role in a small way that could have a big impact. Pre 2011 Scrum Guide,...
Mike Cohn has good material on this as well in his _Succeeding With Agile_ book. Â ... Charles Bradley http://www.ScrumCrazy.com ... Mike Cohn has good...
+ 1 to Flavius' idea (Spike Story or Spike Task), but I also use Backlog Grooming (grooming next sprint's items during the current sprint) to help highlight...
... My guess: Standardization, mechanization, and automation turned out to be very powerful things. They worked so well last century that modern craftsmen can...
... On top of what Ron and Mark wrote, if you're hearing the word "assigned"; a lot it may not be clear that the Sprint Planning Meeting is the time for Scrum...
Sounds like it's going to be tough no matter what. Keeping the Product Backlog visible, having short Sprints, having all concerned parties at every Sprint...
You'll get a variety of opinions here because so much depends on context. I saw an experience report from a Product Owner who sat in the team room. From the...
Generally we're trying to reduce silos specialized on particular skills, functions, roles, or components. Most places with front end teams distinct from back...
Hello Vicky, You've received some great answers here. I'm working on a book these days, and your questions are exactly what my target reader would ask. Kindly...
Hi pctnmrk, Break the work item in 2: a spike (time-boxed experiment) in the current sprint and the actual work (based on the newly acquired knowledge) in the...
... "When you assume ..." Schedule a backlog item to find out the facts when you don't know something. ... Use your retrospective to devise better approaches...
Hello, Lukasz, ... Please tell us a bit more about the relationship you see between the 18th century thoughts of Adam Smith about manufacturing, and 21st...
