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How many activities per week should I be doing with my scrum team?
As a scrum master, I don’t want to take my team away from their committed sprint work too much so here is my question:
If you had to take a relatively high performing team, how many workshops would you do with them in a typical week other than the…
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how to manage two teams with different views on a problem
I have a scrum team that consists of client developers and my company’s developers to form a team of 8. I’ve noticed a lot of friction/arguments between team members on what is the best way to solve a problem.
How would you go about resolving such…
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Do companies normally develop projects solely through reverse engineering?
I currently work in the IT dept of a small company.
Our team consists of 5-7 people.
We do not have business analysts & our projects are all reverse engineered & started without requirements.
Because of that, we accept many kinds of projects from…
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Measuring team capacity for upcoming sprint on a Scrum Team
As a Scrum Master, I have been tasked with helping the team understand its capacity for an upcoming sprint. This capacity, along with the product backlog, the latest increment, and past team performance are all artifacts I need before we dive into…
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About the claim that adding more developers to a team does not make delivery faster
Over the years, I have heard many times that adding more developers to a team does not make things faster. My opinion is that it's a question of management. If you can allocate one complex screen of a mobile app per developer, and you have 8 such…
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Organizing Scrum team around microservices
Current status:
We have the term of (service owner), where all microservices distributed among developers, and each service has a developer as (service owner). In the sprint, each developer is working on his microservice(s). Hence, we have smaller…
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What Does "Commitment" Look Like with Agile Projects?
When engaging with a client on a project that will be developed using agile methodologies, what is being promised in the delivery of the project? How do you know if that promise is objectively met?
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In a typical client/service-provider…
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Should User Stories be divided if they're not Done and the Sprint is almost over?
I have a user story for a login screen. It is in the active sprint. Part of it (andriod platform) cannot be done any time soon. The Sprint is almost over. What can I do?
Should I divide the user story? Like ui, integration and all other functions?
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Is there any knowledge source (book, for instance) talking about cultural differences from a management point of view?
I'm working in global outsourcing company (and therefore interacting with several cultures) for five years, and only a few months ago I realized (in the harder way, i.e. suffering) that is VERY important to understand and have clear the differences…
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Can the Scrum Master role directly modify the Sprint Backlog?
Our company is migrating to Scrum. I've been thrust into the role of Scrum Master (with no formal training—but I'm working on that). Our team doesn't have a Product Owner due to the structure of our company, and because we service all the other…
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How to track milestones shared between several repositories?
I watched https://youtu.be/nI5VdsVl0FM?t=226 about how to manage issues with labels, milestones and Projects, but that seems specific to each Github repository.
Say we have a feature push that requires tracking issues from both a "frontend" & a…
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How to provide traditional upper management early analyses in an agile project?
I was discussing moving our process to become more agile with our (mostly traditional) Chief Information Officer (CIO).
The CIO's stance was that >=80% of the requirements need to be defined (and set in stone) up-front, before work on the project…
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To what framework do "User Stories" belong?
In my University of Applied Science we got taught that user stories are a part of Scrum, and when reading things on the internet it seems that everyone indeed uses User Stories when using Scrum. The accepted answer at this question for even speaks…
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How do we integrate marketing in our Scrum process?
We are a small team that just created a website. We used Scrum and it worked very well for us. But now we have to shift our focus to marketing that website.
We would like to keep Scrum as our development method, but it does not seem to handle the…
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How can Scrum be *agile* if it enforces strict rules?
So I just started to read into Scrum and did the (free) online assessment. Somehow I can't stop thinking that Scrum is a contradiction in itself. Even though the Scrum Guide never uses the word agile, it is often referred to as such:
Scrum is an…
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