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Should the Product Owner dictate what info the UI needs to display?
My question is, to what extent should the PO describe the requirements of a UI?
To the extent that the designers know what to design and the programmers know what to program. In your example, "as a ...
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What's expected from different career levels for a Scrum Master?
I think the different levels can relate to the Agile Onion as described by Simon Powers.
Entry level: Can implement the tools and processes, but doesn't have a good understanding why the processes, ...
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What's the role of a Resource Manager in Agile?
A resource manager as a organiser of day to day productivity has no place on an agile team. We know why they don't belong, it's in your question. They're trying to optimise things that oughtn't to be ...
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Project Manager cancel or move daily stand-up without notice if he has conflicting meetings
I think the most useful advice can actually be found in the comment on your linked Question.
My manager was absolutely shocked to find out that we still had our stand up when he canceled it (a ...
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Is Scrum Master a "management" position?
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Is the Scrum Master a "manager" in the traditional business sense of the term? No. However, the Scrum Master does in fact "manage" a number of things within the Scrum Framework.
Once you ...
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How does a Scrum Team handle traditional BA responsibilities?
To answer this effectively, it is important to split roles, job titles, and skills. Scrum has absolutely nothing to say about job titles, so we can actually resolve that fairly quickly by saying: as ...
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What's the role of a Resource Manager in Agile?
There is no 'Resource Manager' role in Scrum
The question that you are quoting has the 'scrum' and 'scrum-master' tags. How do I manage development with testing and get proper reporting in JIRA?
So, ...
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Can the Scrum Master role directly modify the Sprint Backlog?
The Scrum Master is not part of the Development Team. Your assessment is correct - the term "Scrum Team" refers to the Scrum Master, Product Owner, and Development Team. The Development Team includes ...
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Does a business analyst fit into the Scrum framework?
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The canonically-correct solution is to put someone with business analysis skills onto the Scrum Team in a Developer role, and then cross-train the whole Scrum Team. Cross-pollination of skills ...
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What's the role of a Resource Manager in Agile?
If the role of Resource Manager in your organization is seen as maximizing measurable activity instead of produced value, you've got a serious problem. You're going to create more waste by keeping ...
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How to integrate DevOps people into a Scrum Team?
There's no such thing as "DevOps people".
DevOps is an organizational culture. Like how Agile brought the business and developers into a close, collaborative relationship, DevOps is about a ...
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Is Scrum Master a "management" position?
Part of the problem is that "management" is vague. Does it imply formal authority? A reporting relationship? Someone who is responsible for the development of others? Responsible for the success of an ...
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What is the difference between the project manager and business analyst role?
They're just different roles.
A PM is responsible for guiding the project to successful completion.
A Business Analyst is typically responsible for elaborating the solution from concept to ...
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One of our executives wants to play programmer
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There is a lot more that's structurally wrong with your situation than you think, and based on your tone and framing you yourself appear to be part of the problem. Your company appears to have ...
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Does a business analyst fit into the Scrum framework?
There are two answers here - the Scrum answer and the my practical answer.
In Scrum, there are three "accountabilities" (prior to the November 2020 revision, roles) on a Scrum Team - Scrum ...
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Does a business analyst fit into the Scrum framework?
I have seen many business analysts work well in Scrum teams.
The three biggest challenges for them are typically:
Reaching a clear understanding of roles and responsibilities with the Product Owner
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How to integrate DevOps people into a Scrum Team?
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While DevOps is not orthogonal to Scrum, Devops and Scrum are not synonyms. In addition, there is no "DevOps" role in Scrum. Everyone but the Product Owner and Scrum Master (let's see ...
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Who decides if something should NOT be injected into a Sprint?
This is going to be a pretty by the rules answer. Before I give you that, remember that you're working with people and that if the developers and product owner have a good conversation and decide it's ...
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Should the Product Owner dictate what info the UI needs to display?
Product Owner is Accountable for the Product, and Responsible for the Product Backlog
My question is: to what extent should the PO describe the requirements of a UI? Should we (the developers and ...
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One of our executives wants to play programmer
You could treat his submission like any other pull request: give him feedback like you would any other code review. If he understands the conventions of your team, if he knows your team doesn't put ...
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One of our executives wants to play programmer
Besides for dns's suggestion to add it to treat his submission like any other pull request and test it thoroughly, you also need to add values to your concerns.
Create a document explaining the cost,...
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How can I resolve conflict with a seasoned developer?
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You probably don't want to hear this, but the developer is probably right about your lack of experience, although based on what you've said they are addressing it in a very unconstructive way. ...
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Does a business analyst fit into the Scrum framework?
I usually see BAs work in one of two ways. Sometimes they assist on items being developed in the current sprint by providing their domain expertise to developers, helping to fill in any missing ...
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Who ensures that the backend API is compatible with the user interface?
There is no universally applicable SDLC or associated roles. Who is ultimately responsible or accountable depends on how your organization has defined roles and their associated responsibilities and ...
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What's expected from different career levels for a Scrum Master?
In our organization, junior SMs facilitate the cadence of the project. They make sure the meetings happen, make sure the right people are there, help the team members self organize, and also track ...
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What's expected from different career levels for a Scrum Master?
Junior
A junior scrum master should understand and be able to explain the fundamental principles and founding ideas behind agile. They should be able to explain to the more reluctant members of a ...
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What's the difference between a project lead and a team lead
Team Lead is a management position.
Responsible for one or more departments and people
Hires People
Distributes People across projects
Annual Reviews
Defines Department Development Process
Project ...
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Is there a standard job title for someone who does project admin without making important decisions?
The "Project Coordinator" Role
Titles can and do vary widely in the industry and around the world, so you are unlikely to find a canonical answer. However, in the US industries I've worked in, the ...
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Why does PRINCE2 specify that the project manager and executive roles cannot be combined?
Here's one angle on it. The Executive (& Project Board) has responsibility to the rest of the business for the project deliverables, and to ensure that they deliver value. The Project Manager has ...
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Does a business analyst fit into the Scrum framework?
Scrum just says that the team needs to have all the skills needed to build the product and all the product increments leading up to the final result. Although no other role than "developer" ...
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