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Use this tag for any questions that involve agile approaches from the perspective of a project manager, Scrum Master, agile coach, or similar role. Please note that "Agile" is not a framework or methodology, and this tag should NOT be used for questions about agile frameworks when a more suitable tag exists.

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The development teams can't deliver successful sprints

Since Development Manager is refusing to acknowledge that integration might be the problem and yet, you're working in Scrum, perhaps it's time to introduce him/her to Nexus? Nexus from Scrum.org It's …
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Dealing with stories/functionality that will spread across the entire lifetime of the project

I would recommend looking at @Sven part of answer on Definition of Done. If you haven't done so yet, get together with the team and Product Owner and agree on Definition of Done for this particular pr …
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How do I convice clients that we should use Agile and how should we charge for it

This question has two levels: actual problem of contracting the work for agile team does it really matter how the work is contracted? … I've seen interested variation of agile contract that was proposed by Ken Schwaber in one of his books (I think Agile Project Management with Scrum): After initial Release Planning you agree on the scope …
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Hot swapping people in a scrum team

Probably your company just ran "agile transformation" and now it claims to be agile. What to do? Help your SM. Assure him/her that you see and understand the all above problems. … Without their buy-in and basic understanding of the Agile Manifesto and Scrum Values you're doomed in your effort to run an agile team. Try to convince the manager to read Peopleware by Tom DeMarco. …
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Dynamic length of sprints in Scrum

Adding to already proposed answers I would recommend this short read: http://www.agileadvice.com/2013/05/15/referenceinformation/the-rules-of-scrum-every-sprint-is-the-same-length/?utm_source=feedly …
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Development process in a highly dependent environment

Have you considered Kanban? This is Lean, pull process that looks like good fit for your situation. Here's what you can do and how you can benefit from Kanban: Map Value Stream and make it exp …
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How to efficiently manage a Scrum team when one member is much less productive?

Then follow it by couple articles by Joel Spolsky (start with TOP10 at the bottom) and then you can follow it by book with real life applications of Scrum explained like: Agile Project Management with …
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