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Does running an agile squad mean that all squad members can do any work, or work should be divided based on skill set?
Consider a new PO running a brand new Agile squad where squad members have different skill sets:
one developer (who works with the code)
one tester / QA person
one application architecture
one ...
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One story estimated as 8 SP and multiple developers work on it at the same time [closed]
Let´s suppose there is a story of 8 story points, and several developers are working on it simultaneously. Any take on these types of cases? Should be fine? Could this be considered for completion in ...
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What framework is suited for new product development which are more research and development sort of?
I am working on multiple projects. One of the projects is all about research and development. Like the developer cannot give me the timelines for when it will be finished. Also, the developer doesn't ...
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How to sync across teams e.g. releases
I am a Scrum Master for a team which I think are quite mature in terms of Agility.
They have raised an impediment of having too many synchronisation meetings with individuals from other teams and the ...
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Is splitting user stories into versions a valid approach?
My questions is about splitting a story into versions. For example, we might have a story to allow a user to upload a file to a server. The first iteration of the story is usable by the customer but ...
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What to do with a team that will never evolve into an agile one?
Does agility assume that any group of people can evolve into an agile team with the help of a Scrum Master, or is it possible that some teams will never evolve and it is therefore not possible for the ...
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How to visualise a teams roadmap when using Kanban
My team is experimenting with Kanban, which they enjoy and see the benefits.
The one sticking point that we are having is the team feels they don't have a clear view or grasp about when a particular ...
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How to coach a domineering PO to let go and allow a team to become self-managing
The Product Owner that I am working with has agreed "to try this self-organising stuff" on our Scrum team.
Long story short I convinced her that there are 2 paths for the team. One in which ...
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How to boost internal communication within a Scrum Team
I have collected feedback from my team about what area they want to work on and that is internal communication.
They want to improve the frequency and quality of interactions basically. So asking and ...
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Agile in Data Science - how can I do it best
I work in a data science team and we're starting along the path of agile development.
We will be working in 2 week sprint cycles.
Once we have a clear view of what we are doing, it looks good - we can ...
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Cancelled project retrospective format
Can anyone recommend a retrospective format for a cancelled project?
The attendees will be the development team but also some of the more senior stakeholders.
The idea is to reflect on the hard work ...
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Under what circumstances should outsiders attend a scrum team’s ceremonies?
I work with a team of 5 scrum masters each of which has one or 2 teams.
There is one agile coach.
The agile coach wants to “observe” all the ceremonies of my team. He wants to do this to “coach” me. ...
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Can MBA student get a job role as software project manager or Scrum master? If he/she has a bachelor degree in Information Technology [duplicate]
I am a final year IT student and further I want to study MBA. As I have a good technical background and after completing MBA, can I get job roles like a software project manager or a scrum master?
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When "taking it to the team" should we seek consensus?
Is consensus required for a self-organising team to make a decision? How do we know that a decision is made?
When we as Agile Coaches and Scrum Masters servant lead teams and help them make decisions,...
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As a Scrum Master should I decide or the team decide whether they need a tester?
As a Scrum Master my team is already on the big side:
Product Manager
Associate Product Manager
Business Analyst
User Researcher
Interaction Designer
Content Designer
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What is a good structure for an enterprise agile transformation proposal? [closed]
I have been asked to create a 7-slide presentation or 7-page document to a newly formed Agile Taskforce, who reports directly to the CEO of a large organisation.
The organisation wants to cascade ...
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Scrum / Nexus - Scrum of Scrums and Daily Nexus Scrum - Clarifications [closed]
How you guys resolving problem that during SOS/DNS devs making dial in and clarifying things with Product Owner?
What can rootcause of this? - Bad grooming?
I think this is bad practice
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Scrum, plan our sprint right. and what if we finished our stories before he sprint ends, what to do? [duplicate]
How to plan for our sprint right, so we can deliver our sprint with all agreed stories and also what if we finished all the stories assigned with this sprint, but the sprint isn't finished yet, what ...
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How to measure if Scrum Master is making a difference and when to give up
I have been working with a Scrum Team and also a Kanban team for about 6 months and 10 months respectively.
The Scrum team hasn't shown any improvement and I haven't really managed to impact the ...
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Conflict between senior and junior members
I need to coach a new team. Team consists of very senior and junior members. Senior says juniors have attitude problem and Junior says the senior doesn’t share functional knowledge.
My observation ...
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How should Scrum and Kanban teams track Continuous Improvement activities?
What mechanism can Scrum or Kanban teams use to track Continuous Improvement activities - something which can also involve cross-team collaboration?
e.g. CI: Improve Product Management by reducing ...
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How to get a BI team to work in vertical slices e.g. User Stories
I am an Agile Coach for a bunch of Business Intelligence Engineers and Data Scientists.
There is generally speaking 2 different work item types which they undertake:
User facing reports and ...
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When choosing the largest and smallest stories in a backlog for estimation how does it impact each sprint?
An article I came across suggested that we should pick the largest and smallest story in the prioritised backlog and relatively estimate the remaining stories. This makes sense. However, I was ...
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The roles understanding in the agile development / Is the PO always right?
We have some problems in our team which I would like to describe here:
The test is almost only represented by a test in the agile team. He is entrusted with all eventualities. From planning, ...
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Who or what role is the owner of the agile workflow and the workflow tool (e.g. Jira)
I have worked in different organizations an they all take a different approach to the roles that own the tools for agile delivery. Can you please tell me your opinions on what role would govern the ...
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Sprint is 2 week and 40-stories
Question for QA- What you are doing if your current sprint is 2 week and you have 20 stories, suddenly PO added more 20 stories how you handle this situation..?
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Is a scrum master expected to train the PO from the ground up?
As a Scrum Master and Agile Coach I have been assigned to a team of engineers with little or mixed experience with agile delivery which I aim to address through workshops and training etc.
The ...
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Large group retrospective format
I would like to run a retrospective for a huge amount of people involved in a cross-departmental project.
The problem is there are 50 people involved.
I was thinking of doing the data gathering, ...
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Writing stories for SAP
Perhaps this will get criticised for being technical, but SO seems the wrong place for it.
If you are running/involved in a project with SAP developers, how do you/they write stories for it? What do ...
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Lingua franca for technical stories
I have coached my team to write quite good user stories using gherkin, but their technical stories are still lacking something.
The problem is that when a person of one technical discipline reads the ...
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Why is my team doing so well?
As a ScrumMaster for a team of developers and testers who are doing very well and their velocity is spiking.
I am interested in doing an detailed study to understand what factors caused this upwards ...
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Non-Committal Team Member
Should you let others call out a team member that isn't living up to commitments in front of the team. i.e. during the stand up how do you properly address a team member that calls out another team ...
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What should a lean/agile curriculum contain?
I am helping my team transition to lean and agile, and before a new person joined last month, no one had any experience whatsoever with this approach. Team members have between 1-10 years of ...
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When is it appropriate for a Scrum Master to raise low performance of team members to management?
I am the ScrumMaster of an engineering team. My opinion is that 2 of the team members are not performing at a level which I would expect. This opinion is formed with the following information:
Daily ...
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How to run an effective agile team within a rules based organisation
How to align an Agile team's working agreements within the boundaries ("rules") set by the organisation.
e.g. manager says you have to be at work at 10am and can only leave after 5pm.
you have ...
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Managers pulling up team members individually
Does anyone have any suggestions for the following scenario:
We have a Scrum Team and the organisation has decided to work in this fashion. Some of the team members report to different managers.
We ...
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Workshops/methods for increasing team autonomy?
Does anyone have any proven ideas/methods/workshops for increasing autonomy and accountability in a Scrum/Agile team.
I have used the following thus far:
Definition of done
Working agreements
Roles &...
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What to do with a PO who manages, directs and controls the team
I am a ScrumMaster for a team of 7 devs/qa's.
I am struggling to coach my PO / get through to my PO. On one hand he is very keen to be a PO and work in the way a PO works but he just doesn't really ...
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How to fill my day as a Scrum Master?
I have been a SM now for about 3 years and I enjoy many elements of the role and so far I have had really positive feedback from my stakeholders. The PO says I have good influence over them in making ...
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How to bring to the surface dysfunction in a scrum master cop
I am a new scrum master in an organisation which has many other permanent and contract scrum masters.
I am in an odd and never before experienced predicament where my team is actually very mature in ...
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In which skills a Agile Coach differs from a Scrum Master?
The Scrum Master is the "owner" of the framework execution, as the Scrum Guide quotes:
The Scrum Master is responsible for promoting and supporting Scrum as defined in the Scrum Guide.
On the ...
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Team refusing the help of the agile coach
There is a team that consists from consultants and permanent staff. The consultants have an idea of what scrum is, but they do zombie scrum.
The agile coach has identified that this team really ...
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Imposed deadlines in tandem with Agile transformation [duplicate]
A bank decided that it wants to implement agile, so it hired a few agile coaches to help throughout the journey.
However the bank has fixed deadlines (in the next 6-12 months) that aren't going ...
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How to avoid training external consultants who hold a different agenda?
A large organisation is undertaking an agile transformation. There is good engagement from the senior management team and external agile coaches were hired to support the adoption of agile.
One agile ...
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Big 4 scrum consultant giving bad advice - correct or let fail?
An agile coach was called to promote agile in a big bank. In one of his teams, half of the team is external consultants who have been there for 3-4 years. They currently implement Sales Force.
In the ...
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Activities to introduce new team members [closed]
I am a Agile Coach for a cross-platform team of developers. It was announced that the team would be acquiring 2 new members. These 2 new members will be spending 1 week with the team in person and ...
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How to enable better demos
Does any one have any methods for enabling a team to deliver better demo’s?
I am an Agile Coach working with a team of junior inexperienced cross platform developers.
I have delivered a training ...
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Team using Waiting for Release column on their kanban board
My team is using Kanban board but they seem to prefer to collate a couple of tickets then 'do a release' as appose to releasing each ticket. i.e. they move tickets through the workflow and then put ...
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How to handle a Kanban team that wants to move jira tickets back?
My team is not interested in following the principle of Jira tickets only flow forward on the board and rework happens in whatever column the problem was found.
I don’t share this method with the ...
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Meeting format for defining our definition of done
Can anyone recommend a format for facilitating a definition of done meeting ie, a meeting to define the teams definition of done.
I was thinking of first looking at artefacts and then associated a ...
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