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Who truly prioritizes the product backlog? The Product Owner or Team?
Business Analyst works with the Product Owner and provides him with valuable insights on the value and importance of the user stories, but the PO is still the person who sets the priority of the ...
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In Scrum, what should we do with partly-completed work started at the end of a Sprint?
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Don't plan or start work that won't fit into the Sprint. Decompose any remaining work further until it fits within the current Sprint, or let the team figure out what backlog items to descope ...
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Who truly prioritizes the product backlog? The Product Owner or Team?
The direct answer is that the Product Owner prioritizes the backlog. It is, of course a little more nuanced than that. In an ideal world, the PO would just sort the backlog items by effort and value ...
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Should a technical person take part of the user stories prioritization process?
Product Owner and the Development Team collaborate
The Scrum Guide is very clear on these aspects:
Product Owner and the Development Team collaborate on Backlog refinement:
Product Backlog ...
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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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In Scrum, should we prepare the Product Backlog at the beginning of each Sprint or only at the beginning of the project?
There's no such thing as a "fully ready and complete" Product Backlog.
The Product Backlog is emergent and frequently changes throughout the Sprint. Your Product Owner will probably be ...
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T-Shirt Size and total estimation, how to manage them?
I assume the surveys will yield a score each macro area, say like from 1 to 9, 9 being very high interest. I'd attach an ordinal scale to your t-shirt size estimates, 1 through 5. To make things ...
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User Story breakdown - Technical Task + User Feature
Sprint Backlog Tasks Aren't Inherently User Stories
You're conflating user stories and tasks. Product Backlog Items often start as user stories on the Product Backlog, but Scrum doesn't mandate the ...
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In Scrum, what should we do with partly-completed work started at the end of a Sprint?
As you say, not every team member will finish the planned work at the same time. But as long as you don't overload the sprint then there is a good chance they will all have finished by the end of the ...
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T-Shirt Size and total estimation, how to manage them?
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If you want to score things, you need to convert to a numerical or ordinal value to perform a comparison. However, part of the challenge is that you are using the wrong tool to compare features ...
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Project manager dumps all tickets in sprint
"The PM has started dumping hundreds of tickets into the 2-week sprint a couple of sprints back"
In Scrum, no one other than the Development Team is authorized to accept work into a Sprint. Assuming ...
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Sprint demo feedback
tl;dr; There is no "right" answer. Whatever works for your team and client.
Probably Not a Bug
Sprint feedback is rarely a bug. While there is no strict definition, a bug, or defect, is a term ...
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Who should attend Sprint Replanning?
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[S]ince the Development Team is responsible for current sprint work, does the PO need to attend Replanning? [sic]
Yes, the Product Owner needs to be present at all scoping and planning ...
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What to do if a member of a team finishes all his sprint tasks ahead of schedule?
You have a few options at your disposal.
Use the available time to work on technical debts or fix bugs.
Ask the team member to share load another team member to help her/him in completing the sprint ...
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What to do if a developer is waiting on a colleague to complete his side of the story during a sprint?
When a developer is blocked it can be tempting to bring work in to the sprint from the backlog.
Before you do this, consider the following:
Does the story coming in only require development effort? ...
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Who truly prioritizes the product backlog? The Product Owner or Team?
The answer is, Yes, No, It Depends, in true agile fashion. :)
So I've been lucky or unlucky as the case may be and have never worked in a company with the Business Analyst role. So I can't comment ...
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Ineffective Backlog Grooming and Sprint Planning
Our scrum master insists that we cannot end the meeting until enough stories are ready for the next sprint, no matter what. Most of the stories just aren't ready in terms of requirements
Your scrum ...
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Should we add more items to sprint backlog if there is items that are not completed
I've worked with teams where this is the norm. That said, we tend to fall back on the Scrum Guide for how to handle this. The team is ultimately responsible for organizing and managing their own work ...
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User Story breakdown - Technical Task + User Feature
Pay attention to the 'V' in the INVEST mneumonic.
A PBI must deliver value to the stakeholders.
Ask yourself: by itself, does the ability to parse country data from the XYZ feed provide any value ...
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Can a story be put on hold within a Sprint?
This story is committed for the current sprint.
Teams should not commit to completion of Product Backlog Items for a Sprint. The team's Sprint Backlog is a forecast, based on the team's past ...
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Backlog Grooming
In order to do Sprint Planning, you first need a Product Backlog. What you have is not sufficient to act as a Product Backlog.
The Scrum Guide defines a Product Backlog as "an ordered list of ...
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Review of sprint board during the sprint session?
Such an event does not exist in Scrum. In Scrum, the Sprint Backlog is "a plan by and for the Developers". The Developers are expected to choose a mechanism (which may or may not be a board) ...
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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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How to deal with tasks detalization in sprint planning?
The Scrum Guide
The Sprint Backlog is the set of Product Backlog items selected for the Sprint, plus a plan for delivering the product Increment and realizing the Sprint Goal.
User Stories is one ...
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Sprint backlog before going further with project
Issue is - I've some backlog since two weeks, that I couldn't arrange
to complete.
Why? Are you conducting sprint retrospective meeting with your team? Because in sprint retrospective, the team ...
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Sprint backlog before going further with project
Extend current/next sprint and complete backlog with it.
Generally a bad idea. Sprints are meant to be time-boxed. Meaning, their start and end dates are fixed. They are sometimes ended/aborted early,...
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Sprint backlog before going further with project
Scrum is a framework for complex product development. Most project management approaches are counter to the framework and the values and principles of agile software development.
Perhaps kanban is a ...
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Best (most agile) way to develop multiple products concurrently
We had a team of ~8, well over a dozen products, and 6 different product owners. I won't claim this is the best way, the best way is to staff enough people to properly support all your products, but ...
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How can we fix Sprint Planning meetings that are unproductive?
TL;DR
You have several process problems. Process problems have a cost. Those costs should be visible, and the cost of fixing the problems should be charged against the project to ensure transparency.
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Should sprint backlog have MoSCoW prioritization applied?
No. Don't do that.
Only the tasks in the product backlog could be prioritized via the MoSCoW method. If one were to do as you suggest, trying to get a distribution of priorities in the Sprint backlog,...
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