I have a potential client that is saying they have created a backlog and that each Sprint is generally 40 industry standard Story Complexity Points. I've never...
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Ron Jeffries
ronaldejeffries
Feb 11, 2013 5:08 pm
Hi Butch, ... No. And it would be extremely imprudent to commit to work you don't understand -- as you already know. Even if there were such a thing, you still...
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Ron Jeffries
ronaldejeffries
Feb 11, 2013 5:10 pm
Hi Christof, ... I'd find out why the developers are so sure that there are no bugs and the code is in perfect order. Then, having found out what's really...
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Alan Dayley
alandond
Feb 11, 2013 5:20 pm
Velocity is the number of points the team completes in a sprint. It is usually a rolling average for the last 3-5 prints of points completed in each sprint. ...
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George Dinwiddie
gdinwiddie
Feb 11, 2013 5:37 pm
Christof, ... No, calculate velocity based on the completed stories per sprint (measured in points, # of stories, or however you measure them). ... Probably...
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George Dinwiddie
gdinwiddie
Feb 11, 2013 5:39 pm
Steve, What industry is this? Certainly no Agile Software Development! ;-) ... -- ... * George Dinwiddie * http://blog.gdinwiddie.com ...
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Alan Dayley
alandond
Feb 11, 2013 5:55 pm
"each Sprint is generally 40 industry standard Story Complexity Points" Wow! Points cannot be compared between just two teams and someone believes (and...
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Markus Gaertner
shino01051979
Feb 11, 2013 6:55 pm
I'd get together with my team and my product owner, and decide about the best option to go for. That could mean to pay down some technical debt, add some more...
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Markus Gaertner
shino01051979
Feb 11, 2013 6:59 pm
Hi Christof, Scrum doesn't say anything about velocity or burn-ups. Usually during courses I ask participants for good reasons to come up with stuff like ...
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Michael James
michaeljames...
Feb 11, 2013 7:51 pm
Agree with that. Though I want to emphasize that every time I've heard "we're done early" it turned out the work wasn't really *done*. --mj ...
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Ali H. Moghadam
alimoghi
Feb 12, 2013 4:08 pm
Agree with both. And also don't forgot about a little fun together, if everything seems to be good and you have free time. Sent from my iPad ... Agree with...
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Ranjeet Srivastava
ranjeetshriw...
Feb 12, 2013 4:08 pm
I would rather say that the sprint was not planned and estimated well. Team estimation might not be that accurate. In fact team might have over estimated the...
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Jesse Houwing
jessehouwing
Feb 12, 2013 4:08 pm
Never heard of this specific thing, but I think the complexity is a hint towards Function ...
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Bret Wortman
WortmanB
Feb 12, 2013 4:13 pm
This is kind of like saying "industry standard measures of sugar" when making a recipe. Are you talking about teaspoons, tablespoons, cups, ounces by volume,...
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Sandeep Hukku
shukku
Feb 13, 2013 9:17 pm
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czahn777
Feb 13, 2013 9:20 pm
Hi, first of all thank you for your responses! The reason why i calculate the velocity on a day-by-day basis is, that i want to calculate a forecast for a...
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Kevin Callahan
kevincallaha...
Feb 13, 2013 9:40 pm
probably the most valuable part of the response as far as the actual result of such metrics :) -k ... Kevin Callahan Scrum Master & Agile Coach LiveWorld Inc....
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czahn777
Feb 13, 2013 9:40 pm
Thank you for your great response. Should it really occur, that all the work is done before the sprint ends, i think we would add another small story to the...
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Kevin Callahan
kevincallaha...
Feb 13, 2013 9:48 pm
First off, I can tell from your emails that you're extremely excited to be practicing scrum, and that's a very good thing! However, I would add a note of...
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Ron Jeffries
ronaldejeffries
Feb 13, 2013 9:50 pm
Christof, ... What do you do when it says all's good? What do you do when it says you're late? What do you do when it says all's good and at the end of the...
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Markus Gaertner
shino01051979
Feb 13, 2013 10:13 pm
I probably only speak from my own experiences there, but I have seen most teams being perfectly comfortable with seeing the progress they make on their...
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Dave Smith
dwsmtnview
Feb 14, 2013 6:19 am
If a sprint ends early, and there really are no stories in the backlog (and no product owners available to put them there), then it helps to remind yourself...
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extremeprogrammer
extremeprogr...
Feb 14, 2013 9:52 am
I advise you not do do this for two reasons: 1. Many teams have a "burndown signature" that is visible after several sprints. This arises from the teams...
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wwake2
Feb 14, 2013 12:14 pm
... +1 for taskboards over sprint burndowns When I'm halfway through a sprint, I'd like to see say 40%+ of stories in the "done" column. That gives me a better...
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Otis Bricker
obricker
Feb 14, 2013 9:06 pm
I am no expert and many others have made some good suggestions. I would tend towards option a though it might be a problem to get folks to an early Sprint Demo...
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Greg Lucas-Smith
bwobbones1
Feb 17, 2013 2:27 pm
Hi all, I'm the Scrum Master for 3 Scrum teams and we've been working our way through the process for about 12 months now with great success. Even our ...
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Michael Vizdos
mikev_work
Feb 17, 2013 2:53 pm
Here is a simple view of "Done" for each Sprint... Can your end users do their jobs when you put it into production at the end of the Sprint? Does it "work"...
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Michael James
michaeljames...
Feb 17, 2013 9:03 pm
A key reason is transparency. When we have software that's not properly tested, no one can honestly say where we really are, as the FBI discovered: ...
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Srinivas
ceezone
Feb 18, 2013 6:57 am
Hello, Another perspective is that focus is diluted if there is a spillover. Since each sprint has a goal and team commitment is crucial; an item left out and...
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Steve
steveatootac
Feb 18, 2013 11:39 am
Hi Greg The commtiment that the team are asked to make is to a Sprint Goal not to the totallity of the user stories chosen. Think about the situation where you...
