At least it has been easier to select stories before, when all devs have been strictly either mobile or server. Easier to grasp how much work you are...
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marvin438android
marvin438and...
Nov 25, 2012 7:36 pm
No pair programming but I do see how it would help. Maybe I'll suggest it in the next retro. Developers write their own unit tests and then hand over the story...
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Steve Berczuk
berczuk
Nov 25, 2012 10:24 pm
I've found that it's generally more useful to have the stories be end to end; it will probably be hard to have any meaningful stories that are just mobile or...
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changjiang1124@...
johnnychang_cj
Nov 26, 2012 1:18 pm
Thanks Charles, the chart is very practical. Best regards Chang, Jiang...
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changjiang1124@...
johnnychang_cj
Nov 26, 2012 1:18 pm
Sometimes Product team just want to keep devs busy, or they just keep trying to figure out a way to make money. Best regards Chang, Jiang...
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Charles Bradley - Pro...
charles_brad...
Nov 27, 2012 12:09 am
Marv, I'll take a different tack here... First, I agree with Alan, your team is cross functional, and the *individuals* on the team are not 100% cross...
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Charles Bradley - Pro...
charles_brad...
Nov 27, 2012 1:33 am
... (Separate estimates wouldn't be horrible either, but I prefer the Dev Team do as many things as possible in a "we are one unified team" type of way) I...
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brian_bofu
Nov 28, 2012 9:38 am
Your boss wants your team to deliver certain functionality by a certain date (deadline), but your velocity is unable to achieve that. What options/suggestions...
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RonJeffries
ronaldejeffries
Nov 28, 2012 11:10 am
Cut features. Nothing else works, ever. R ... Ron Jeffries www.XProgramming.com It's true hard work never killed anybody, but I figure, why take the chance? --...
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Bret Wortman
WortmanB
Nov 28, 2012 11:25 am
To add to what Ron said, your goal really isn't increasing velocity, the goal is delivering a product at a particular time. Don't think of velocity as some...
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brian_bofu
Nov 28, 2012 11:29 am
It's not manipulating the number. It's about how to get more things done or done faster. The management is willing to offer their resource and help. We're...
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RonJeffries
ronaldejeffries
Nov 28, 2012 11:41 am
Brian, ... First, do Scrum. The point of Scrum is to improve your ability to deliver. So tell us a bit about what Scrum is telling you ... or why it isn't...
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Paul Hudson
paulhudson
Nov 28, 2012 11:42 am
Ask the team. What are your retrospective meetings discussing? What do the team think are the items that are impacting what they can get done? Work on removing...
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Bret Wortman
WortmanB
Nov 28, 2012 11:44 am
Agreed and understood. Given your current velocity, figure out how many features or stories or BLIs you can get done in the time available. That's what your...
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Laurent Bossavit
morendilfoo
Nov 28, 2012 11:55 am
... How far away is that deadline: six days? Six weeks? Six months? A year or more? How large is the discrepancy between the date predicted by current velocity...
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changjiang1124@...
johnnychang_cj
Nov 28, 2012 1:04 pm
Hi there: I believe this is a cliche topic, but I haven't found anything satisfactory. PO can tell the main function via user stories, but when it comes to...
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Anand Mahadevan
anand_kasi
Nov 28, 2012 1:07 pm
There is no magic to increase the velocity, not sure why they are very much interested in increasing the velocity rather than getting a shippable product. But...
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Michael Vizdos
mikev_work
Nov 28, 2012 1:15 pm
Have the PO and the Development Team members communicate together. Face to face. Remember the purpose of the stories... Keep it basic. Mike Vizdos On Nov 28,...
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Kurt Häusler
kurt.haeusler
Nov 28, 2012 1:19 pm
Have a look at Specification by Example. Also, if there is enough details for a story that a whole document could be written, the story is probably too big,...
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Charles Bradley - Pro...
charles_brad...
Nov 28, 2012 2:52 pm
Jiang, +1 to Kurt's and Michael's answers. From your description, it sounds like your PO is not interacting with your Dev Team enough to discuss details, and...
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Charles Bradley - Pro...
charles_brad...
Nov 28, 2012 3:22 pm
++1 to Laurent's excellent questions and advice (the other replies are also, of course, helpful). If you're truly looking for practical advice, the answers to...
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Adam Sroka
adamjaph
Nov 28, 2012 3:50 pm
Or put the customer on a spacecraft traveling away from Earth at a significant fraction of the speed of light....
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JackM
jmilunsky
Nov 28, 2012 5:15 pm
I have some developers struggling with the dilema wrt completing stories in a sprint - i.e. meat your goal all crossing the goal line together vs keeping...
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Alan Dayley
alandond
Nov 28, 2012 5:25 pm
Please elaborate further. More context is needed to form a possible answer. Especially about "keeping the developers pipeline full." Alan...
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Bret Wortman
WortmanB
Nov 28, 2012 5:27 pm
It seems to me that the goal isn't so much to keep a developer's pipeline full as it is to keep developers working. There's a natural end to each sprint at...
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JackM
jmilunsky
Nov 28, 2012 5:38 pm
Very relevant and I get that, the issues is figuring out the best way to convince the team. So the discussion this senior developer had with me is he is...
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Bret Wortman
WortmanB
Nov 28, 2012 6:06 pm
"...piles on qa's plate". You are doing QA within the sprint, right? Not as a separate activity? Cross-functional teams and all that? No roles within the team...
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banshee858
Nov 28, 2012 9:53 pm
... I agree with Ron's main point - cut features. I'd also echo what someone else said in this thread "Ask the Team." However, perhaps cutting features is not...
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Jesse Houwing
jesse.houwing
Nov 29, 2012 3:05 am
What will most likely work: - Remove other functionality from the sprint and focus on what is really important - Dress down the requested functionality to it's...
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George Dinwiddie
gdinwiddie
Nov 29, 2012 3:55 pm
Brian, ... You've gotten some good suggestions about "minimizing the work not done." Another approach is to buy the boss 4 copies of "The Mythical Man-Month" ...
