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What is Scrum at scale?
I am new to the Scrum domain and recently found a "Scrum at scale" workshop near my town. I am a software engineer more inclined to data science. How would scaled Scrum help me become better in managing projects with many stakeholders, and how is it…
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How can I get our business leadership engaged with our Agile team?
I continue to see Agile adoptions that focus on the R&D or Engineering team. There seems to be this acceptance that the core of Agile rests there. I'm absolutely not convinced. I think that if the business doesn't fully embrace the Agile…
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What should we do if there are not enough PBIs to fill a final Sprint in Scrum?
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At the end of a project, there aren't enough story points to fill a two-week Sprint based on the velocity of the team.
Capacity & Backlog
The average velocity of the Development Team is actually 40 points per Sprint. In the…
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Why Project Management is so hard?
I know a lot of Project Managers and they are all over 30 years old.
Are all project managers like that?
I mean, is this about getting more experience than at least 7-8 years?
Or being a Project Manager is so hard? What do you think?
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QA Code freeze and setting the expected delivery timeline
We are in the healthcare industry, where bugs can have an impact on people health. As a result, we started having a code freeze on the staging environment to have the QA test each build. In addition:
We don't deploy on Fridays so developers will…
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How to handle user stories that cannot be split and do not fit even a 30 days long sprint?
Given a small team (3 people or so) and a technically challenging area (e.g. middleware, embedded software etc.), and
Assuming that a user story is a smallest thing that has value for the end user,
how do you go about handling stories that take…
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Should bug fixes be deployed as soon as they're ready?
I'm changing the development methodology in my team. When I joined the company, there was no methodology whatsoever (basically, patch 'n' deploy) and in consequence we have 400k of spaghetti unmaintainable untested code.
I proposed a look into the…
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What level of detail should I include in epics?
I am writing user stories for a new project. One of my epics is:
As a company owner I want a graphical profile so I can build my visual identity.
And then there are multiple user stories linked to this epic for creating a color palette, designing…
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How do I convice clients that we should use Agile and how should we charge for it
We are a small company working in web development. I like Agile and I tend to use it within my team. The issue is: usually, clients need to get quoted with a lump sum of their project that will not adapt to their usual needs for changes. If I…
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How to deal with non-project work requests on developers?
(I'm new to Scrum) At my company we are relatively few developers (1-3 / per team) with very fixed project responsibilities (If you started product X, you'll be responsible for it as long as it exists).
Most devs are approached by POs, support, etc.…
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Story Decomposition Granularity
We are having a hard time meeting Sprint comits, one reason I suspect is that we are not doing a good job estimating and one of the causes of this is that we don't do a good job decomposing the story down to a sufficient level of granularity to fit…
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Should tasks be given as orders?
Consider an example. An iteration plan is created by a project manager. It contains, say, 50 tasks for designers, programmers, testers. The tasks depend on each other (network diagram is ready). The PM announces the plan for the team and gets team…
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Partially introduce Scrum into a team
The CEO of our small company (14) asked me to introduce some elements of Scrum into the working process of our development team.
Problem is: the piece he would like to see introduced is not really the main part. It mainly the daily scrum…
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Forecasting Story Points in Agile
Are there any methods to fairly estimate story points for a project before deep diving into the planning poker part. I am asking this because sometimes at project initiation it helps to know the tentative amount of work in terms of story points.
Are…
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What techniques or frameworks help with influencing organizational change?
There's change that starts at the grassroots level, where the people who hold the vision for change don't have the authority to just make it happen. What can help?
Even if the person with the vision does have official authority to make the change,…
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