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What does a Product Owner do if they disagree with the CEO's direction on product strategy?

What can, and should, a Product Owner / Product Manager do if the CEO has mandated that the team builds something which the Product Owner feels is not in the best interests of the customer? Aside from presenting a case and aiming to influence the…
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Should the Product Owner be from our organization or the company we are contracting with?

We're a governmental organization and we're contracting with software companies to implement our projects. We're adapting the Scrum framework. Question: Should the Product Owner be from our organization or the company we are contracting with? What…
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Client has hard time focusing

I had a hard time trying to get the client to focus. X likes to talk a lot. Sometimes give too much information. Sometimes X talks x-self into circles and i forget what the question is. I try my best to formulate succinct direct questions and i…
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Is velocity a valid measure of team and process improvement?

I've asked this question to few scrum masters: "How do you tell, that your team is improving? How do you tell that actions taken during retrospective result in real improvement in efficiency/productivity?" Most answers I get are "when velocity…
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Not sure what value the Scrum Master role adds over a long period of time?

I have been working as a pure Scrum Master for a couple of years within a relatively agile organization. My other Scrum Master colleagues and I do very little for most of the day except for facilitating stand ups to the point it is making me very…
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Should the Product Owner dictate what info the UI needs to display?

I hope someone can help me understand one part of the role of the Product Owner (PO). In my company, we have a PO that is responsible for the Product Backlogs of all our products. I work as a UX designer. The PO specifies features and requirements…
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What if you do not believe in the project benefits?

I've recently been assigned to a project as the PM and I'm fairly sure that a senior executive in the company has heard some fancy marketing spill at a conference and now wants this product at the company. As far as I can see, it is an expensive and…
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Product Owner is requesting a "confidence check" for reaching the MVP - How to in a Scrum project?

We're in a quite complex software engineering project with lots of unknowns due to new technologies involved that the Team has never applied nor have comparable experience. Due to these risks the Product Owner (PO) requested a "confidence check" of…
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How to use peer code reviews to improve product quality?

We use Scrum with short sprints of 1 or 2 weeks and use peer reviews to improve product quality. How do we best use code reviews as quality assurance tools? pre-commit reviews - hold tasks until the reviewer can finish them. Reviewer are on the…
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Are all the scrum ceremonies included in the sprint timebox in Scrum?

We know the daily meeting and the backlog refinement is inevitable to have out from in the sprint timebox, but we don't know, for example in a two-week sprint, if the sprint planning, review and retrospective are included too. So, in a two-week…
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How do I encourage team members to accurately log their work?

One thing that I noticed is that lots of employees forget to log the number of hours that they worked on a task. Is there a way to provide incentives for them to measure their work accurately? (either in time spent or progress on a specific task)
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Daily Scrum and flexible work time

Our company is in the process of introducing elements from Scrum in our working process. As we have flexible work time (not completely sure how to say it in English. People can come to work when they want, in some limits, as long as they make their…
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Should we cancel the Daily Stand-Up if we have another meeting during the day?

The Scrum Master for my team cancels the daily stand up if we have another meeting that day, like Backlog Refinement (formerly Backlog Grooming) or some other planning meeting. I don't think it's a good idea, but can't find any precedents online. Is…
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Is it a problem when many stories start with: "As the system,..."

I'm a developer on a scrum team and I'm finding it hard to understand and empathize with the end goal when stories start with "As the system". These stories should be straight forward because as a developer I should be able to build to meet the…
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Involve graphic designer in daily Scrum meetings

As I explained in a previous question, our company is willing to introduce some elements of the Scrum method in our working process. We have a in-house graphic designer, who is attached to the marketing part of the company, but feels more related to…
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