Questions tagged [scrum-master]
The ScrumMaster tag is used to ask questions related to this very important and central role in scrum.
240
questions
2
votes
4
answers
214
views
How can we handle urgent work items defined by leadership at the end of a Sprint?
The Change Management Situation
My Scrum Team received 2 urgent and critical tickets from top management at the end of the Sprint with 3 days left. The tickets were related to a feature that was to be ...
- 121
3
votes
8
answers
1k
views
Agile Retrospective: Comments Anonymous?
In Agile Scrum Retrospective boards, what is the best practice?
Should Teammembers put their Name by each comment? I heard it was supposed to be more Anonymous based when documenting, at least for my ...
- 131
-2
votes
2
answers
179
views
Is the Scrum master role a good long term career choice?
I’ve been a scrum master for 5 years.
The role seems to be misunderstood and thankless.
Often organizations I’ve worked in are not interested in process improvement and agile coaching to implement ...
- 3,892
8
votes
6
answers
3k
views
How to improve Scrum Master performance
Update: I think we can assume that my manager does not see me as a pure scrum master but more like a leader of the team.
I am a Scrum Master and my manager has told me basically that I am not ...
- 2,529
0
votes
2
answers
89
views
Agile Kanban sprints
I wanted to know if Kanban follows sprints?
Are there live open Kanban dashboards that I can use to learn from?
Thanks!
- 9
-1
votes
2
answers
112
views
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 ...
- 1
0
votes
1
answer
405
views
Is it true that scrum masters are paid better than data analysts and data scientists? [closed]
So I saw somewhere that scrum masters are paid more than data analysts and data scientists and that the average salary is even significantly higher. On average they are even paid 30k a year more.
I ...
- 109
4
votes
3
answers
157
views
What role the scrum master should have when it's time to organise team buildings (team lunch for example)
One of the tasks of the Scrum Master is to be aware of the mood of his team, it's a part of his empathic behaviour, but is the Scrum master in charge of organizing team lunch, finding restaurant etc?
...
- 315
0
votes
2
answers
103
views
Interview answers for a Scrum Master applying to a SAFe org
I've noticed interviewers in SAFe organisations ask different questions. I'm guessing that they also want different answers to the Agile and Scrum type of answers e.g. "help the team figure it ...
- 311
5
votes
9
answers
4k
views
What is a Scrum master to do when management do not support Agile and Scrum?
Scrum has come out of R&D. The organisation has scaled significantly. The organisation recruited more developers, Scrum masters and product owners (POs) and more managers.
All of the managers talk ...
- 311
1
vote
4
answers
135
views
Who is responsible for getting 2 senior developers from different teams to agree on design?
Recently a heated discussion happened between 2 senior developers. The 2 could not agree on a design. This resulted in work not beginning.
I as a Scrum Master was not involved and it was not one of my ...
- 311
1
vote
3
answers
101
views
Who is responsible for getting developers in the same team to work together?
In a team of 9, 2 of the Senior Developers do not see eye to eye, professionally and personally, the relationship has deteriorated even before a Scrum Master has joined the team.
What is the ...
- 311
4
votes
7
answers
333
views
Who is responsible for ensuring that the Product Owners are professional and understand how to do their job well?
I've seen many bad patterns appearing over the years, one is converting Project Managers into Product Owners.
In my current org Scrum Masters are not involved in the recruiting of Product Owners, ...
- 311
2
votes
1
answer
195
views
What should the Scrum Master do when the Product Owner tries to add more items to the Sprint?
Sprint planning has completed, sprint goals set, all is well. 2 days in the PO asks the lead developer if they could add a new item into the sprint, "it's an easy fix" "another team ...
- 311
0
votes
1
answer
41
views
Who should ensure that the project with one product uses 1 PO and 1 Product Backlog?
Management are involved. They want to split the product into multiple streams but it's still one product.
Management have introduced multiple Product Owners and given then a stream each.
The Scrum ...
- 311
1
vote
3
answers
144
views
How to deal with people who are not motivated?
I am a Scrum Master of a team in a department that has gone through a lot of changes.
My team isn't motivated to work or even engage in problem solving discussion. I have tried to do retros, feedback ...
- 2,436
0
votes
2
answers
74
views
Who speaks to the client when there are some errors in the documentation that the client delivered?
We have a web development project with a client. This project has plenty of formulas and documents (around 100 formulas per block, and 5 blocks for the whole project.
The Product Owner created a ...
0
votes
3
answers
225
views
When a development team doesn't want to go through an OKR exercise
I work with multiple teams, whereby the company culture has been somewhat command and control, and also "shielding" the team from any sort of "management", "leadership", ...
- 1,368
1
vote
6
answers
470
views
How to make my team follow the Scrum methodology?
I recently joined a new company as a scrum master. I have six years of experience as a web developer and the last two years as a lead developer.
I did have some experience and I am quite good as a ...
- 315
0
votes
3
answers
216
views
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 ...
- 2,436
1
vote
2
answers
169
views
How to help developer gain agile mindset
One of the developers on my Scrum team comes from a less agile team than ours.
The PO told me that this developer doesn't like to collaborate with the other developers and the PO, and also that he ...
- 2,436
0
votes
2
answers
594
views
How to create a useful valuable Scrum Master meet-up
I am trying to find a way of reinventing the Scrum Master Community of Practice (CoP) in my organisation into more of a working group.
We often find that people are disengaged or expect a presentation....
- 2,436
-1
votes
5
answers
536
views
How do I manage development with testing and get proper reporting in JIRA?
The key question goes back to estimation of User Stories.
I believe that combining testing and development Story Points in one Jira user story as separate tasks doesn’t make sense, as it is like ...
6
votes
6
answers
2k
views
How can I foster more T-shaping within a Scrum team?
As a Scrum Master and Agile Coach, how can I foster more T-shaping and elimination of silos within a single team?
All the team members are open-minded so I am sure they would let me try anything.
One ...
- 2,436
0
votes
3
answers
220
views
What to do if Scrum team does not have a lot of work to do
I'm currently Scrum Master for a Team and there is not a lot of work for us to do. My Team has recently moved to a new project and handed all previous products over to different teams. Now, due to ...
- 1
-5
votes
1
answer
151
views
Is it possible to be a Scrum Master without any technical experience?
I am an engineering (IT) graduate and right now I am pursuing masters in Computer Science & Engineering. I have teaching experience in computer and engineering fields, but now I am planning to ...
0
votes
1
answer
78
views
Professional Scrum Master I (PSM)
everyone.
I just gained the PMP certification, where I already learn something on agile, and now I want to get a certification specialized in agile.
I want to start with the Professional Scrum Master ...
- 113
2
votes
5
answers
662
views
If a team works on different things, how can they run sprint planning effectively?
I'm a Scrum Master for a team who are working on different features for different products, but all for the same company. As we're a small team, we've kept it to 1 team and have been sprint planning ...
- 360
0
votes
4
answers
159
views
Is scrum certification enough to switch from construction project management to IT Project management domain?
I had short experience in construction industry, then I completed MBA in Project management. I am equipped with MS project Primavera P6. Now I am thinking of switching into IT industry. Will Agile ...
- 9
4
votes
3
answers
205
views
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 ...
- 2,436
2
votes
5
answers
551
views
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 ...
- 2,436
5
votes
2
answers
2k
views
If we cannot complete all tasks in a sprint
This is an online question on the Certified Scrum Master (CSM) v7.0 (CSM-001). However, I don't understand why the answer is A instead of D:
You are the Scrum Master. The Sprint will complete in two ...
- 53
7
votes
4
answers
944
views
How do you make the Teams Retrospective Actions visible and ensure they get attention throughout the Sprint?
After a Retro we usually have 2 or 3 Actions to address in the next Sprint. Some of these Actions are sometimes more of a reminder to Developers.
Who do we ensure they are addressed in Sprint?
We're ...
- 311
3
votes
3
answers
749
views
What framework or methodology would you recommend for a Data Science team?
I am a Scrum Master for a team of mostly Data Scientists and some Software Engineers and a Product Owner.
Our organisation has decided that all teams work in 2 week sprints using Scrum. I personally ...
- 2,436
4
votes
3
answers
269
views
If a team isn’t broken but isn’t a scrum team what should a SM do?
I have recently joined a new scrum team as the scrum master.
They are high performing and stakeholders are happy with their value delivery. Their decisions are swift and their ceremonies are optimal.
...
- 2,436
-4
votes
2
answers
193
views
Is it SM or PO role to update team on requests from outside stakeholders, such as SW upgrades?
Collaboration can happen outside the Scrum Team from other stakeholders when there is a special work request to be relayed down to the Scrum Team. In other words, a Scrum Team does not live in a ...
- 125
9
votes
4
answers
3k
views
Does the scrum master also estimate user stories?
We recently started working with scrum on an new (large) project. I am a developer but do not take part in that project other than my role as scrum master.
I know about the software they use, but don'...
- 542
3
votes
4
answers
439
views
What agile process promotes the team to assign tasks to individual developers istead of individuals assigning tasks for themselves?
Developer /architect / developer 20 years experience. I did an experiment at my previous project where I created a scrum-like process but we decided developers to not pick directly their tasks, but ...
- 131
3
votes
3
answers
405
views
Scrum - Add Placeholder for Future Story
Practicing Scrum and Agile, our team had Sprint Planning and we sliced our features into stories. However our team was unsure about what should the "third" story do, so the ScrumMaster ...
- 125
14
votes
8
answers
4k
views
Should the Product Owner be from our organization or the company we are contracting with?
We're a governmental organization and we're contracting with software companies to implement our projects. We're adapting the Scrum framework.
Question: Should the Product Owner be from our ...
- 143
-1
votes
3
answers
845
views
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?
2
votes
3
answers
2k
views
Difference between scrum master and senior scrum master
My work involves defining job roles and the skills necessary to perform them. I've seen job titles for both "Scrum Master" and "Senior Scrum Master." I'm NOT a scrum practitioner ...
25
votes
6
answers
8k
views
Should I ask my boss not to come to retrospectives?
I am a Scrum Master for a small team (8 devs). I have been having trouble getting engagement from many of the team members, especially the junior team members. My boss missed two retrospectives ...
- 361
6
votes
4
answers
618
views
Responsibility of scrum master
We are new to scrum and team with most are experience devs. (even decades).
The project manager (experience dev but new to project management) gave a scrum master role to a junior BA. She is ambitious ...
- 161
13
votes
5
answers
2k
views
Conflict between priorities and skillsets in the backlog
So we have a very diligent PO who does a good job of prioritising the User Stories in the backlog when it comes to planning. Much of the work is highly specialised though, and - as well as being Scrum ...
- 233
0
votes
4
answers
2k
views
How to calculate Schedule Variance in Scrum with story points?
I am trying to find a way to calculate the schedule variance for the scrum. I was trying to found a similar question here on StackExchange, but Yet I didn't found any. So I have posted it here.
Below ...
- 109
4
votes
2
answers
5k
views
What can lead to disappointed and angry stakeholders?
At the fifth Sprint Review, the stakeholders seem disappointed and
angry. When asked about it, they say the product or system as being
built will not meet their needs and will cost more than they
...
- 41
10
votes
7
answers
938
views
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,...
- 2,436
1
vote
5
answers
332
views
PO concerned about all sprint backlog items not being completed
The PO on a project shares his concern with the Scrum-master that it doesn't feel like dev team would be able to fulfill their commitment to deliver the PBIs selected during Sprint Planning. As a ...
- 11
1
vote
6
answers
326
views
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
Developer
Developer
Developer ...
- 2,436