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How should you do long term releases with Kanban?
With Scrum you can try to plan longer releases using team velocity. If the team velocity is 100 Story Points (SP)/Sprint and the Product Backlog has 1000 SP then you can say you can finish in 10 Sprints.
When developing software with Kanban it…
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Who consumes estimates?
Consider a company that:
works on an own product(not a contractor),
the product has already been released(but is expected to need years of further active development),
the product is a consumer app(not safety critical, not government).
Most place…
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In corona lockdown time, how to substitute daily scrum/stand-up meetings?
We adopted scrum in the past as the project management paradigm. However one of the cornerstones of scrum is the daily stand-up meeting.
In corona lockdown era (or any time where it is relevant) this is no longer possible face to face. So the first…
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Is there planning in Scrum?
As a project manager/scrum master, I has been required to make sure that the team completes the work that was planned for a Sprint and, what is more important, for a Release. Are these demands correct?
It's often said that Scrum has three horizons…
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How to implement kanban principles into one's personal life?
I'm impressed with kanban from a team perspective, and I'd like to suggestions on how to implement kanban from a personal perspective.
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What are acceptable quality levels for various kinds of software?
Is there any statistics or at least some industry consensus on what are commonly acceptable quality levels for various kinds of software?
I am certainly not talking about space shuttles or life supporting machines where the answer is more or less…
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How to handle learning tasks in scrum?
Today in our team we faced interesting issue. One of my colleagues wanted to learn basics of some technology which is about to be used in the project. How such an activity should be handled in scrum framework?
Learning task doesn't produce business…
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QAs get all the Work at the End of Sprint
We have an issue in our Scrum Agile process, where all the Developers get PBI work done in the last few days of the sprint.
And then QA is forced to test everything at end of sprint. What is the solution to fixing this end rush?
Should we break the…
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Has anyone actually tried "The Bermuda plan" and if so, how did it go?
The Wikipedia page on Brook's Law includes the following sentence:
The Bermuda plan, where most developers on a project are removed ("sent to Bermuda") and the remaining are left to complete the software, has been suggested as a way of…
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How to influence a scrum team to do something you as a SM feel is beneficial to the team
If you need a scrum team to do something, as a servant leader what is the best way to influence them?
I was thinking of talking individually to each and explain why seeing their faces is important for me to do my job ie is it reasonable given the…
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Should I be using user stories as my documentation?
I've just inherited a project and I'm forming a new team.
How it's been currently done is there is a list of user stories - these user stories have lots of tasks attached to them that the dev picks up. They also have a bunch of acceptance criterias…
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Decision making between alternatives: methods and tools?
My company is in this situation:
low budget
few time
a lot of idea for new feature
So, we need to prioritize feature implementation, only some will be implemented now, some other will be next year, and some other maybe never.
Actually I am…
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Responsibility of scrum master
We are new to scrum and team with most are experience devs. (even decades).
The project manager (experience dev but new to project management) gave a scrum master role to a junior BA. She is ambitious well organized and not much scrum or even…
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We have a velocity of zero
I am a Scrum Master for a small development team of 7 developers and 3 testers with 2 week sprints.
The product we are working on is large with a lot of modules. The breakdown of the modules is fairly clean conceptually but their is a lot of…
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How do I convince a team to follow the Scrum Guide?
I have recently joined a new team in a new organization that is supposedly using Scrum.
This Sprint, the BA/Scrum Master has decided it would be best to do the planning session for 1 hour on Wednesday morning, and the retrospective on Thursday…
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