Hi Russell What value does the team get from using a Sprint Durndown Chart with anything on the y-axis? Re-estimating hours work left every day is just as...
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Alan Dayley
alandond
May 15, 2012 8:02 pm
I have seen teams that have their Sprint Burndown with tasks. I was ScrumMaster on one team that decided to use Story Points on the Sprint Burndown. The...
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Bob
irrobertb
May 15, 2012 7:44 pm
Hi Michael, You may wish to look at CMMI "Causal Analysis and Resolution" as another reference. However, I think prevention is the best tactic to avoid...
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russellsmith289
May 15, 2012 7:44 pm
Hi all Has anyone tried using tasks instead of hours on the vertical axis of their sprint burndown chart? I can see the advantages of not needing to spend the...
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danieleberge
May 15, 2012 7:44 pm
Hi Wouter, thanks for your extensive reply! Lots of ideas to chew on! The main reason for us wanting to show our value to the organisation is that historically...
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gregc
graycole
May 11, 2012 5:48 am
Yves, I was glad to hear you say you usually are trying to assess business value at the epic level as Kurt already pointed our it can be really difficult to...
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Michael Wollin
mdwollin
May 10, 2012 5:41 pm
Aside from KT analysis, which I am already familiar with, what other processes, methods, and techniques are out there to help root out the root cause of...
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Kurt Häusler
kurt.haeusler
May 10, 2012 8:17 am
... If there is some objective method, and the PO finds value in using it then great. More often it is a very subjective process, and it is really one of the...
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Kurt Häusler
kurt.haeusler
May 10, 2012 8:13 am
... Ahh yes. I have seen that suggestion. I don't like it. It might be useful for teams that have trouble not being able to deal with the abstract nature of...
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Charles Bradley - Scr...
charles_brad...
May 10, 2012 7:53 am
Simon, Welcome to the list! <all my opinion> <bare with me for a little background /> Background:Â I have coached 3 full scale Scrum transitions where the...
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JackM
jmilunsky
May 10, 2012 2:51 am
Try to break your stories down further so they're smaller. When you get good at this then your burndowns will burndown from day 1 Hope this helps Jack ...
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JackM
jmilunsky
May 10, 2012 2:50 am
I use a moving average for velocity. It works best. Pick moving average across 3 or 4 sprints. Cheers Jack www.agilebuddy.com...
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Wouter Lagerweij
wouterla
May 9, 2012 10:43 pm
Hi Daniele, Interesting topic! What is the main reason your team feels you need to emphasize your team's value to the rest of the organisation? When using...
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RonJeffries
ronaldejeffries
May 9, 2012 7:54 pm
Hi Whyves, ... Actually, no, we do not "have to use an objective method". In fact, for almost every product we might be building, there IS NO POSSIBLE...
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gustavonarea_tech
gustavonarea...
May 9, 2012 7:46 pm
Hi Charles, Your response is very useful. Thank you very much! It seems to me like the main thing we missed was to estimate as a team, driven by the desire to...
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gustavonarea_tech
gustavonarea...
May 9, 2012 7:46 pm
Hi Steve. Thanks for your response. You too seem to support the use of complexity for story points, as opposed to time/effort. We use time/effort for the...
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gustavonarea_tech
gustavonarea...
May 9, 2012 7:46 pm
Hi Kurt, ... Yes, one story point is an ideal day of work for one person. ... Isn't that called "triangulation" and serves a different purpose? According to...
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Rama Bharti
ramabharti@...
May 9, 2012 7:46 pm
Thanks for your reply Charles. It clears my doubt. Regards, Rama On Tue, May 8, 2012 at 6:19 PM, Charles Bradley - Scrum Coach CSP CSM PSM I...
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danieleberge
May 9, 2012 7:46 pm
Hi guys, we are a component (backend hadoop) devops team that does the following work... - take care of a hadoop infrastructure operations (many of our...
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Whyves
yvesriel
May 9, 2012 7:46 pm
Thanks Greg, Unfortunately I will not make it to SQE but I hope to be able to get my hands on your presentation after the event! Does you presentation also say...
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Whyves
yvesriel
May 9, 2012 7:46 pm
In our teams, we burndown tasks. I agree with the general concept that at the end, the most important thing is to deliver done stories and that the burdown is...
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Whyves
yvesriel
May 9, 2012 7:46 pm
Thanks Kurt, At some point you have to use an objective method for deciding what is most important for the users of the product. It gives you insight on what...
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Charles Bradley - Scr...
charles_brad...
May 9, 2012 7:44 pm
+1 Ron -- Thank you for taking the time to post a thoughtful and insightful response. Â ... Charles Bradley http://www.ScrumCrazy.com ... +1 Ron -- Thank you...
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Alan Dayley
alandond
May 9, 2012 7:13 pm
Just when I thought this thread was getting to long, Ron posts this excellent treatise. Thank you, Ron! Alan ... Just when I thought this thread was getting to...
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Adrian Howard
ajh65537
May 9, 2012 6:53 pm
Hi Yves, ... Like Steve - we don't use a scale. Indeed - in ten or so years of working with various kinds of agile team I don't recall *ever* having used a...
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Bret Wortman
WortmanB
May 9, 2012 6:25 pm
Thanks, Ron. You know, after I wrote that, the bit about needing to know what to sign up for this sprint was bothering me too, and what I wrote about "the team...
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RonJeffries
ronaldejeffries
May 9, 2012 5:58 pm
Hi Bret, and all, ... I invented points, and I can tell you that this is not what I had in mind when I did it. "Credit" for getting things done, vs how hard...
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Charles Bradley - Scr...
charles_brad...
May 9, 2012 5:27 pm
David, ... get "credit" (whatever the hell that is) for partially completed tasks. I wasn't aware of this. Do you have a source for this? The one thing I can...
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Charles Bradley - Scr...
charles_brad...
May 9, 2012 5:19 pm
Kurt, Thanks for the clarifications. I think once you get to the concept that Planning Poker is a "whole team estimate" (which I sometimes communicate as...
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Kurt Häusler
kurt.haeusler
May 9, 2012 4:30 pm
... For sure. I meant everyone in the cross-functional team, excluding the PO and SM. In other words the development team. I also worded it poorly when I said...
