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Agile Retrospective: Comments Anonymous?
The retrospectives I facilitate are not anonymous.
If a team member asked me to allow anonymous comments I would certainly do so. I would then try and investigate why psychological safety was so low ...
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As a Scrum Master, how to speak to a developer about his delays?
Any suggestions ?
I'm sure there is an official Scrum answer and a project management answer. This is a common sense workplace answer: Don't bother.
That person is out of the door. They are there ...
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As a Scrum Master, how to speak to a developer about his delays?
I tend to agree with Thomas, but this time I might slightly disagree, as I'd suggest a more active stance.
The Scrum Master is accountable for the Scrum Team’s effectiveness. Source: Scrum Guide
You ...
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Agile Retrospective: Comments Anonymous?
It depends, mostly on the level of trust between team-members.
In the best practise situation people are open and have the courage to be themselves, transparent and traceable. Sometimes it helps if ...
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As a Scrum Master, how to speak to a developer about his delays?
As a Scrum Master, you shouldn't approach this Developer. If the team believes that this is an issue that is affecting their performance, then the team should talk about it at a Sprint Retrospective. ...
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What is most important when preparing the first retrospective for a new team?
congratulations on your first sprint :)
As you pointed out the team is still forming so there will be lots to talk about and having a structured approach is going to be helpful as it sets up good ...
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As a Scrum Master, how to speak to a developer about his delays?
I disagree with the other suggestions that you should just ignore this situation because he's leaving soon. Consider the following:
Contract end dates can change - what if he gets extended, or if ...
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What is most important when preparing the first retrospective for a new team?
The Sprint Retrospective Isn't for SM- or PO-Driven Agendas
It doesn't really matter if this is "Sprint Zero" or your ten-thousandth Sprint. The objective of the Sprint Retrospective remains ...
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Should a Product Owner be present for all retrospectives?
It is important to always keep in mind that the PO by virtue of positioning on the scrum team owns the vision of the product.
Secondly, always keep in mind, the purpose and goal of retros- to review ...
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Agile Retrospective: Comments Anonymous?
The three pillars of empiricism at the base of the Scrum framework are: transparency, inspection, adaptation.
Transparency also means to have a safe zone to share openly during the retrospective what ...
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Agile Retrospective: Comments Anonymous?
Why do you need to capture comments or document anything that happens in a retrospective, other than specific, concrete, actionable opportunities for improvement and perhaps some rationale around the ...
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Story points or number of stories
A very interesting question with many facets. Why are the team reluctant to break work down before starting? why is estimation not working for you ? why are the team focussed on building stuff without ...
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Story points or number of stories
TL;DR
You may have an X/Y problem where the symptom is Developers failing to see value in collaborative Sprint Planning. However, the root cause is more likely a disincentive for the Developers to ...
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What is most important when preparing the first retrospective for a new team?
An interesting retro format early on in a project is the pre-mortem.
You ask the team to list all the things that could go wrong with the project, then you have a think about ways to mitigate the ...
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As a Scrum Master, how to speak to a developer about his delays?
You'll get a lot of 'ideal' Scrum Master behavior which if not favor at least do not harm engineers; but they do harm you as a leader / scrum master in the organization.
Some might tell you not to ...
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Should a Product Owner be present for all retrospectives?
Quite simply yes, the Product Owner is part of the delivery team and the contents of the retrospective directly impact their role. A product manager, in contrast, doesn't need to be present.
The ...
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