The **Scrum** tag is used for questions about using or implementing the Scrum project management methodology.
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Who is using MS OneNote here?
I would like to know more about OneNote. I am impressed with the capabilities it has.
I make notes of my daily SCRUM meetings, project meetings n stuff. Anyone else who is using this tool and what ...
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product owner vision document
I am reading some information about scrum, and want to know how the product owner make the vision document?
and if can recommend me any book.
Many thanks.
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Can the PRINCE2 and Scrum Master Certificates be claimed as Contact Hours?
My understanding is that a requirement to apply for the Project Management Professional (PMP) certificate is to accumulate 35 Contact Hours (also referred as PDUs by other sources) prior to the ...
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What is the best video conferencing / meeting tool for scrum teams? [closed]
I have 10 scrum (agile) teams and all of my teams have remote members in different locations.
I need the following feature but not necessarily at the same time:
Works and easy to set up for ...
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Learning curve to writing user stories in the real world
How many user stories does it roughly take before a product owner has a basic fluency in writing user stories? Meaning that the idea of writing user stories has moved beyond theory, rough execution, ...
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Is it possible for someone to be a member of two Scrum teams, and how can that be made to work most effectively?
We have an organization where we're moving to two scrum teams working on different parts of our our backlog. I understand the idea that each team should be a complete cross-functional unit, and ...
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What actions will you take when Iteration/Sprint goals are in danger?
Let's say, you are a Scrum Master and your team is in the middle of a Sprint. You see that all planned stories can't be completed till the end of the Sprint, that's for sure. What action will you ...
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Why can't the scrum master and the project manager be the same person?
How a scrum master does compare to a traditional project manager, and can either role coincide with the role of product manager or project sponsor / project owner?
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Agile Scrum Storyboards
At the moment I'm Scrum Master for my place of work. We have one Scrum Team in our organisation which is split across two sites:
Site 1: Scrum Master, Developer, QA
Site 2: Developer, Operational, ...
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Should a ScrumMaster step into political conversations?
As a SM I try to promote great environement for my team by encouraging collaboration and teamwork.
It works well for the work hours, but during lunch time 2 of them always argue against each other on ...
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How should an organization divide user stories between scrum teams?
We have a development team that works on multiple "products". We create a unified user-stories backlog, and effectively treat the multiple products as different feature areas of the same virtual big ...
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With Scrum, how do you keep from dropping the little things?
We've moved our group's workflow to a scrum-based approach, with a lot of success. We're getting things done, people are more engaged, and we're more focused on our actual user community's needs.
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Why can't I find well elaborated criticism on agile/scrum on the web?
After several years of agile and scrum hype around, I'd expect the first well-known reactions from "bullshit!" to "magical!" to be gone and I should be able to find some really elaborated articles ...
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CMMI and SCRUM related jobs
I am an IT student and have been working on team-based projects for several years. I have read some papers about CMMI and SCRUM, and this is really interesting to me and I would like to know what kind ...
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When should I use a contract Scrum Master?
Lately we've been looking at growing our organisation, and I've been looking at the possibility of either getting a contract Scrum Master to help us grow, hiring a new full-time Scrum Master or ...
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How to integrate a remote person in a Scrum team?
We have hired a new team member who lives in another country.
This is not like a team split across 2 locations - he is alone there. What things should we consider doing in such a case:
in order to ...
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Analysis document in Scrum
I am in a web agency that is trying to implement from Waterfall to Scrum, so we have old habits that I need to change to go to a more Scrum way.
One of my problems is the functional analysis document ...
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From ScrumMaster (or any agile coach) to a direct line manager - how do people change their behavior?
I've been working as an agile coach for little over one year for one team. Recently I became a line manager for the same team.
So now I'm agile coach and line manager in one.
How can people change ...
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What are effective strategies for dealing with project bottlenecks?
I work as a software developer at a small non-IT company. One of the challenges we face is receiving timely feedback to questions and the testing of the programming assignments we handle. The root ...
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What do you do if the Product Owner is ill?
Simple question. How do you run the Sprint Review and Sprint planning?
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Advice for dealing with a cowboy programmer in an agile team
We have a cowboy coder in our team i.e. he likes to take advantage developing some new features or tools that are not always requested nor useful. We use scrum/kanban for development, and it is quite ...
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How to encourage the commitment on a sprint for a team
The biggest problem I have right now is the team is unable to commit on the stories and tasks planned during a sprint.
For example, we wanted to implement a new database, which is very complex and ...
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Kanban for multiple projects
We've been using http://acunote.com to manage our work queue. It's great for the planning phase, because you can nest stories. This makes it easy to outline an MVP within a given sprint.
Given that ...
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Using Microsoft Project for managing a Scrum project
I am part of a Scrum team and we are constrained to use Microsoft Project (MSP).
I understand that MSP is not primarily an Agile project management tool and I would very much to use something like ...
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Unfinished Stories in a Sprint
Every so often, we find ourselves with a story that, for some reason, does not get completed during a sprint. This could be for a variety of reasons, such as a tricky bug, but the end result is that ...
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What is the role of a QA tester on a Scrum team?
I've recently added a QA tester to our new Scrum team. The tester comes with a lot of experience in automated testing and is capable of scripting, light coding, etc. He will be using automation tools, ...
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How to apply Scrum in fixed date, fixed budget project?
Considering that we work on a project with fixed deadlines and fixed budget and we use Scrum: what are best practices we should use to make this setup successful? Since Scrum wasn't directly designed ...
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Help with stories in Scrum
The company I work for has recently greenlit a large project to completely rewrite our software product. As PM, I have championed using Scrum on the project and the company have been very supportive ...
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Going from Scrum to Kanban near “release”
I am working as Scrum Master on a large software project. We are currently running Scrum. We have about one month left in the development phase before we are supposed to end our implementation phase.
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Advice for Special Short Sprints (2-5 Days)?
Most of our Sprints are 2 weeks long, but occasionally, we want to meet a special deadline in less time (2-5 days). So, we do a special "short" Sprint that is a bit different from our normal routine.
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How do you maintain a product burn down chart while not being plan driven?
As a scrum master, how do you keep a burn down chart up to date without forcing your team into become 'plan-driven'?
(What does 'plan-driven' mean?)
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How can I manage a Scrum project and meet the requests of the PMO while using Microsoft Project?
I searched other questions and still can't figure out how we can manage a project that uses the Scrum methodology with tools like Microsoft Project.
We are a big software company using Microsoft ...
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Should a Scrum Team be comprised of Engineers from different code bases? Or is that irrelevant?
We have a "product suite" that is comprised of 3 main products with separate code bases, 2 C projects, 1 Java.
The engineers have been placed on the same scrum team in the name of having a ...
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Rescuing a Friend Besieged by Buzzwords [closed]
I have a tech background but a friend and coworker of mine was an English major (and former English teacher) and was hired on as a document editor/proofreader working with a team of tech writers. ...
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Scrum 1.0 vs MSF Agile 5.0 Process templates in TFS 2010
we're about to move from TFS server 2008 to TFS 2010 and I'm working on the details of the setup we want in 2010. We are using Scrum and we need to decide what Process Template to use in our new TFS ...
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Additional Scrum Master duties outside of team
I'm finding that outside of the Scrum Master duties and responsibilities, I'm not filling my day at work.
We run a two week sprint cycle, daily I do the standup with developers and write up the notes ...
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What's a successful website/software that has been released and/or sustained using the Agile/SCRUM process?
Google, Twitter, Facebook, Amazon, Apple, Tumblr, Wordpress, Flickr? It goes without saying that Agile is best for some, not for others, but I'm just kinda wondering...
The developers in my ...
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How does a PM in Prince2 fit in the Scrum story?
A colleague and I had a discussion a few days ago on where a PM in a Prince2 project would be placed when the product delivery is done using Scrum.
I wonder what your thoughts are:
who should the ...
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Are Agile and Scrum proprietary names and methods, and who is entitled to sell them (train & certify)?
I would like to know if Agile and Scrum are proprietary names and methods, and if any company can freely use them as part of their marketing, and sell them - I am thinking mainly of consulting ...
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Problem with scrum master and developer role?
Can the scrum master be a programmer on the team and take the role of scrum master just for now?
As is done in the time you must make a plan?
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In Scrum, who has the vision and the roadmap documents?
I read some books about Scrum, but they seem to only be about product backlog, sprints, user stories, the scrum team, and timeboxing — but nothing about vision, roadmap, estimation, and other ...
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How difficult is the Professional Scrum Master I (Fundamental) Assessment?
I have been considering taking the Professional Scrum Master I (Fundamental) Assessment? I am considering paying the $100 and taking the assessment without attending a course.
scrum.org Suggests ...
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Which sticky note is the stickiest?
The question might sound a tad silly, but I'm actually trying to solve a real problem.
Our team room has a glass wall, which we also use as our kanban board with hand-written swimlanes (= status) and ...
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Should the role of scrum master be played by the same person every time?
I've been reading about agile methodology and while discussing it with colleagues the question of interchangeability of roles came up.
The scrum-master role is not an easy burden, so some proposed to ...
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Incorporating QA and Testing in a Startup running Scrum
We continue to struggle with how to improve our QA and Testing processes in the sprint. We run a two week sprint and find that the QA and testing gets left late in the process and ends up rushed with ...
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Should we allow people learning/considering SCRUM to our teams retro?
In our company we recently have more and more teams which consider using SCRUM. They want to learn/get a feel of it so looking how other teams work is very helpful.
They'll be joining our daily ...
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What is the “Physical Information Radiators” in the context of Scrum?
I'm pretty new to the Scrum thing. I'm reading more and more of it. I'm very enchanted by the idea.
I visited this page about the 12 points of the Scrum framework by Scott of Rapid Scrum.
What is ...
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Product Engineer - How and What to Learn? [closed]
I previously headed up a support and training team for a home-grown software product.
I have now moved into a product engineer/specialist role, within same company.
My background has been purely ...
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When should you do sprint planning?
We tend to do our retrospective on the final day of the sprint and have found that by the end of an hour and a half, launching into a planning session is not ideal at all.
When do you hold your ...
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How do you make Basecamp work for scrum?
How do you use basecamp's fairly rigid tools for facilitating the scrum PM framework?
