Hi Charles, ... I can think of no case where I'd recommend this offhand. Ron Jeffries www.XProgramming.com Don't ignore your dreams; don't work too much; say...
Hi Charles, ... If the PO is not controlling all their time, there will be trust issues. In addition, it is rare -- tho perhaps not unheard of -- for teams to...
Hi Charles and Ron, Here's how I view it. If you are doing work to reduce technical debt it HAS to have an ROI. If you are not working on a piece of code, but...
Hi Dan, ... Long shot it seems to me. And since in a well-factored program, anything can break anything, I do not think automated customer tests are an option,...
Hi Charles, ... Hm sounds like these teams are not working to any deadlines or something. I would favor a team having a sort of Google rule for use of 10% free...
Dan, ... drags down your velocity. Â Agreed ... whole section of code; the team might not know that. Doing a lot of ... I don't know about "buy-in", because...
100% Understand and respect that, Ron. Giving advice over the interwebs needs to be safe advice. Thanks again, for your time, and for your valuable and...
I think it's worth mentioning, FWIW, that in our Scrum.org PSM Class, we teach this approach to technical debt: 1. Stop creating debt 2. Make a small payment...
Hi Ensieh, Â Â Â Every person from the PMO can take part in the SCRUM team based on the nature of projects your company handle. Either a project or a product...
... ​Hi Ensieh​, I was in your situation about one year ago. It depends on *YOUR* current organizational status, it depends on* YOUR* Organization ...
Nirmala, ... I don't understand. The ScrumMaster is not supposed to do any "controlling" as far as I know. And I'm not aware of the role "Retrospective...
A few years ago I worked with a situation that still puzzles me. A company in Manhattan asked for help doing Scrum with four or five teams. Most of my...
As an ex-Yahoo, one who worked with several distributed teams there, including several work-from-home arrangements, i think Marissa is right in emphasizing the...
"The most efficient and effective method of conveying information to and within a development team is face-to-face conversation. " Agile Teams are not self...
Alex, Could you explain more about what you mean by this? ... I do not in any way understand what you are saying. Â ... Charles Bradley Scrum Coach-in-Chief ...
You are assuming that going to the office means the people will be co-located. In my company, if I started going to the office, I'd still be the only person in...
Charles, Marisa has broken at least one principle of Agile Manifesto: *"Build projects around motivated individuals. Give them the environment and support they...
Really, Agile is about supporting employees with nurseries and other child care benefits? I'm sorry, but that's a very far stretch IMO. I don't think that is...
+1 to Ron's comments, and I'd be a bit concerned about mixing "Scrum, XP and Kanban Practices as you need." It's remarkably easy to frost traditional ...
I think that's a bit of a stretch, though I might agree that this move, given her own resources and modifications, might be politically difficult. There are...
Michael, you're a braver man than I am-plopping that link into this group. I saw the story last weekend and thought about posting it but decided that life is...
... Was Ken mistaken when he wrote "The team is utterly self managing?" My experience on a small self managing (and collocated) team is that there is no place...
MJ, I know you're not asking me to speak for Ken Schwaber or to try to explain why he said some random quote. ;-)  I was speaking of Agile, not necessarily...
... I'd be careful going in this direction. IMO, it comes off as sexist, but that is me. Also, we do not know, but perhaps one of the commitments she has...
