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Should we take into account scope changes to the Sprint to measure the team efficiency?

My question is about scope changes to the sprint after stating it. The Scrum guide says this about adaptation: A Scrum Team is expected to adapt the moment it learns anything new through inspection What about a Scrum Team that agrees to start a…
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Creative way to introduce new team member

Recently to our group joined a new member. We usually plan a team meeting to introduce ourselves. In the round we tell a little bit about our position in the team, what we do and what we love. But that is really boring at the end. Are there any…
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Are Agile and Scrum proprietary names and methods, and who is entitled to sell them (train & certify)?

I would like to know if Agile and Scrum are proprietary names and methods, and if any company can freely use them as part of their marketing, and sell them - I am thinking mainly of consulting services and training providers. Regarding Agile: I…
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Improving leadership skills for project managers

As a project manager, what are some ways to improve one's effectiveness in leadership on a team? Certainly it may depend on the context; but, generally speaking is it naturally the role of the project manager to lead the team ? Also, what exactly…
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How to incorporate UX/UI in sprint correctly when mockups are required to estimate a story?

Apologies if the question has already been asked, I couldn't really find the answer when looking around. I'm struggling to figure out a way to handle UX/UI in an agile way. I'd like to be "fully" agile and having design being part of the sprint for…
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should developers have a say in functional requirements

In general most online resources point out that the functional requirements are the responsibility of the business analyst or product manager. But developers sometimes can be the expert on a product e.g. because they have been working on it for…
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What if developers don't want to spend their time on manual testing?

I have experience of working with a team where developers didn't want to do manual testing because they considered it to be wasting of their time - QA work (especially manual testing) doesn't improve their development skills and knowledge. What…
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Who Owns Backlog Prioritization?

I recently had a meeting with several executives/managers wherein we determined that what the Product Owner had communicated, and the Product Manager had prioritized in the backlog, was no longer what was important from the perspective of the…
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In scrum, how do you track/estimate points when multiple tickets overlap their work?

I've never been fully able to answer this question, and from a lot of searching I haven't been able to get the right keywords to find anyone who's asked this question in the way I mean it. Say that there are two user stories, A and B. In order for…
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In Scrum, are stories supposed to be a replacement for product requirements?

In Scrum, are stories and acceptance criteria supposed to be a replacement for project scope and product requirements? Is it convenient that all requirements are scattered over many issues in Jira (instead of being kept in a single document)?
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What is the purpose of 1 on 1 ?

Every week I have a one-on-one meeting with my manager. This is a new thing we started at my workplace. I am not quite sure what kind of things can/should I be asking in this meeting. Can someone give me some leads on this ? Thanks
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Should test phones be taken home or kept in the office?

My team consist of 6 backend developers, with 4 different test phones and tablets.They need to use test phones to cross check front end developers work, and debug their API. Testing in mobile is about 10% of their workload. Should I let them take…
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What metrics to keep through out the life of the project?

Apart from the regular cost/scope/time metrics that every project contains, I am interested in knowing if I can include a few more metrics that will trigger alerts on future projects. Let me exemplify what I mean. As a pilot I have started to keep…
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If we can’t finish all tasks, does this mean we are doing Scrum wrong?

I'm working in an online mobile game development team, and we've been doing Scrum for several sprints. There are various reasons, but we seem never able to finish all items selected for an sprint. Does this mean we are doing something wrong in…
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Demo in Sprint Review

Currently we are following one week Sprint, Post refinement sometimes we encounter few stories which may take more than 1 week time to complete development, integration & Test. This means to produce working software increment it may take more than 1…
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