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In scrum, does it ever make sense to hire a product owner?
I have seen a scrum team trying to hire a product owner. They advertise for scrum skills, and experience.
Does it make sense to hire a product owner from outside the company?
If I do what skills should they have?
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How do you use kanban in an environment that requires a ton of waiting?
I work in government and our department has a communication problem. I'm trying to use a kanban board to solve this. I went ahead and started using a kanban board for just myself so I could figure out what to do about certain unique problems we face…
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Methods to improve daily scrum / standup
My Team's Daily Scrum needs improvement and I was wondering if anyone has a workshop idea/method on how to improve.
The current issues that my team face are:
They tend to go off topic, instead of focusing on what I did, what I am going to do and…
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Project cancelled, still client wants to use parts of it?
After four prototypes on a mailshot design, the client is now telling me that the project is going to be cancelled.
Because a lot of work was involved, I submitted an updated "cost estimate" (in this case the project was being made in a…
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Are processes and procedures only for enterprises?
I've had the opportunity to work at quite a few start-ups. One thing I've found to be common in them is adhoc way of doing things and ignorance towards processes, best practices and known project management techniques. When I suggest changes to the…
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What's an easy and sustainable way to introduce pair programming?
As a ScrumMaster I've read some texts about pair programming. I want to introduce that to my team and make sure it's been done regularly. As a "special feature" we have a remote worker and I want him to be part of this movement. My goals are, as…
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What are you doing with Agile teams who no longer run retrospectives?
I have run into several teams who tell me that they no longer run iteration retrospectives: they were a waste of time and they weren't learning anything new. What is your answer to these teams? Should they just let go of the need to have…
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Split up scrum master tasks
Several times I've read
...good scrum masters make themselves superfluous...
I am aware that this is not quite true.
In our company we work for quite a long time with the agile concept and scrum. Therefore most employees know about scrum and the…
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Can scrum master interrupt team member during daily Scrum?
We are a small team using Daily Scrum meetings to track progress of our mobile app development work. The developers are of varying experience range from 2+ years up to 9 years, and with different technical backgrounds like Android, Java, API…
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Is there Scrum ceremony for planning Technical Details on an Agile Project?
Specifically, if we assume that the team spend a day on Sprint Planning using the 4-8 hours of planning for each week of our sprint formula then that doesn't really seem like enough time for the team to flesh out implementation details. And should…
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What's the difference between Kanban vs Lean Kanban?
I noticed that Lean Kanban term appears quite frequently. I've tried to figure out what's the difference between Lean Kanban and Classic, but no success. Maybe someone dealt with both and could describe the difference and explain when to use what?
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How to deal with unreliable subcontractor?
There is a software project which, in big part, was delivered by a subcontractor. It is already in production but there are many bugs submitted by the customer. Bugs are redirected to the subcontractor as, according to formal agreements, they should…
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What would be the pressure for developers in scrum?
In a typical non-Scrum environment, a Project (or, Product, maybe) Manager will be the one responsible for project/product success, and so assigns tasks to the members, make sure it gets completed. Gives pressure to the assigned members.
When…
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Good project management cheat sheet
I see various ones on the web (such at this one), but not being a project manager, I can't really tell which ones are good. I'm looking for a checklist of things to do and important terms; specifically for someone who is new at project management.
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How does specialization fit into Scrum?
One of the rules of the Scrum states the team should self organize and be in control of the technical part of the project. It is rather easy when Product Owners are delivering tasks which every member of the team is capable of dealing with. But…
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