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" ...
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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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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 6:36 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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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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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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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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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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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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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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George Dinwiddie
gdinwiddie
Nov 29, 2012 10:39 pm
Jiang, ... It's all about the conversations. Take a look at ...
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Bret Wortman
WortmanB
Nov 30, 2012 11:40 am
I think the illusion is being able to directly manipulate the velocity. It's like my car's mileage. I can't make it more fuel-efficient directly, but I can...
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Charles Bradley - Pro...
charles_brad...
Nov 30, 2012 4:00 pm
I've observed something that supports Cass's theory somewhat. In the case of learning something new, what I've seen a couple of times is that the team has...
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gregc
graycole
Dec 1, 2012 5:16 am
Jiang, Would you share a little more about the PO. What is his/her background and what are his or her full responsibilities at the company? -greg...
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m1ke_pearce
Dec 1, 2012 7:10 am
Cass, I don't agree with this at all. If a team is inspecting and adapting, constantly improving their practises and themselves, then their velocity will go...
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Adam Sroka
adamjaph
Dec 1, 2012 8:24 am
Going faster is not always a good thing. Although, sometimes it is. Pretending to go faster produces far more distress than value....
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Cass Dalton
cassdalton73
Dec 1, 2012 5:18 pm
Several people have made similar responses, and I still assert that, in the context of management asking how to increase velocity, it is dangerous to consider...
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Charles Bradley - Pro...
charles_brad...
Dec 1, 2012 6:20 pm
Good post, Cass. ...  I think this may be the heart of the problem. The more I think about it, the more I think velocity should *almost never* be reported...
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akoelewijnk
Dec 2, 2012 11:00 pm
Velocity is an indication of what a team is capable of (within its current environment). You could approach this like a sports team trying to improve its...
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Markus Gaertner
shino01051979
Dec 3, 2012 8:04 am
There is a third option to improve the velocity within that analogy, that is improve the team working together. Your first point seems to be directed at...
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Cass Dalton
cassdalton73
Dec 3, 2012 6:52 pm
Ron, Do are you suggesting that said creative idea will increase the teams velocity? That sounds like a major process improvement or something similar. There...
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richardknaster
Dec 3, 2012 6:52 pm
I've been hanging back and watching this really interesting discussion evolve and thought I'd jump in. My advice would be to have the Scrum Team and management...
