Jiang, ... It's all about the conversations. Take a look at ...
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Charles Bradley - Pro...
charles_brad...
Nov 29, 2012 10:26 pm
Jiang, ... This sounds like a perfectly functioning software development team. Software development is complex, and we are not psychics... things come up...
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RonJeffries
ronaldejeffries
Nov 29, 2012 9:06 pm
Cass, ... What if they learn something new? What if someone has a creative idea? Ron Jeffries www.XProgramming.com I have two cats, and a big house full of cat...
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changjiang1124@...
johnnychang_cj
Nov 29, 2012 8:52 pm
Thanks for all your replies. Charles: Our PO does like to interact with Dev, but he would miss some details, some of which are important, some are not. Dev...
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Ram Srinivasan
ram_eagle2k
Nov 29, 2012 8:52 pm
Great questions by Laurant which can provide you insights. Also, why not ask your team what challenges/impediments they are facing and then start to address...
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Cass Dalton
cassdalton73
Nov 29, 2012 8:51 pm
Trying to increase the velocity means that you've fallen into the illusion of control mind trap. You can't change velocity. It is inherent in the team and...
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Michael Vizdos
mikev_work
Nov 29, 2012 8:37 pm
[minor high-jacking of the thread ON] Watching these types of conversations, I see the point that "release planners" and then Ron's passionate points from...
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RonJeffries
ronaldejeffries
Nov 29, 2012 6:36 pm
Jack, ... If things are important, why are they not being done now? Why is the team working on unimportant things? Is the Product Owner stupidly selecting...
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RonJeffries
ronaldejeffries
Nov 29, 2012 6:35 pm
Hi Jack, ... Tell us about your Product Owner and how they interact with the team. In particular, tell us how this "senior developer" finds himself interested...
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RonJeffries
ronaldejeffries
Nov 29, 2012 6:34 pm
Hi Jack, ... Scrum has a clear and simple answer to this question. At the end of each Sprint, the team is jointly responsible for delivering a working,...
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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" ...
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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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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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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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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 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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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...
