Questions tagged [sprint-planning]
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Story Points flaw?
Forgive me f this has been asked before, I read some similar questions (linked below), but didn't find the answer I was looking for.
Our team is fairly new to them and trying to figure out how to ...
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Should all team members be assigned user stories?
This is a very basic question but I don't see any answers on it yet.
Scenario: We did sprint planning and I noticed some one saying
Not all developers have a task to do. We need to add more tasks ...
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Sprint board critique
We are a DevOps software team with dependencies upon a release process which often requires us to wait before releasing some code to production for up to 5 times longer than our sprint length. This ...
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How to handle when planned work is blocked and a developer has capacity to take on a new user story that may be too big
Assume the following situation. All but one user story planned in a sprint is completed.
The remaining user story is blocked.
A developer would like to take on work in the highest priority work ...
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Sprints Starting Mid-Week in Scrum
When people discuss Sprints that start or stop mid-week, they seem to agree that this should be done on a Tuesday or Wednesday. Why is that?
Also, how do week-long Sprints with mid-week starts and ...
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Architecture task as sprint issues
I understand spikes as being investigation tasks when there is an uncertainty about how a story should be done but my question is more about how to include a software architecture task in a Sprint.
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Planning a sprint after reduced team strength
We have seven people team and their running velocity is ~50 points(2 weeks sprint). Now due to change in business focus, we have to reduce team size from 7 to 4.
How do we plan current sprint? ...
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Hot swapping stories
Is it acceptable to swap out stories from the current sprint to the backlog and replace them with stories of the same estimate size from the backlog, because of changing priorities in the business?
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How to manage technical conflict between Product Owner and developers?
Imagine you are a Product Owner. And you have planned a sprint, prepared every detail, broken down the epics into
stories and already presented your roadmap to management and promised the releases
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What should we do if there are not enough PBIs to fill a final Sprint in Scrum?
Background
Scenario
At the end of a project, there aren't enough story points to fill a two-week Sprint based on the velocity of the team.
Capacity & Backlog
The average velocity of the ...
