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00:00 Welcome
02:22 How do we ensure the robustness of Software Architecture from Sprint1 to the last sprint as Agile works on MVP philosophy?
05:33 One of the inputs of the Sprint Planning meeting is the past performance. How the team performance should be measured?
09:47 The IT dept is Agile but the business is Waterfall what approach would you take to win the business to Agile Scrum?
14:10 Is the classic business/IT separation an asset to or an obstacle to Agile? How can it be improved upon?
16:54 We have a small dev shop so our developers are also production support - we 'reserve' time for Prod Support but how do you suggest most efficiently using developer time with regard to support and new dev?
21:20 How do we ensure team's are not doing "Scrum But"? For example, lots of team's run sprints of activity but do not examine workload.
24:35 Given the Scrum events, which would be the ones who should be lead by the Product Owner (maybe Refinement and Planning)?
29:27 Going on the what and the how. Is feature delivery valuable? The Product owner comes up with the feature, the developers create stories to complete said feature. Or is this to driving?
31:48 Can you share best practices for managing/utilizing team members working on multiple (not connected) projects, helping the DevTeam to increase it's velocity.
36:34 Being a new certified Scrum Master, do you habe a suggestions how to address job adverts where the companies ask for some years of experience?
39:04 Do we really HAVE to use Story Points ?? if so, what's the best way to use 'em? Thanks!
43:51 Any suggestion how to deal with companies in transition, which try to put everything they deemed to be done into the PBL instead of having the Product owner make the choice?
45:49 As scrum master, i got confused how to be more effective with high performance team? sometimes i feel my role is not mandatory to the team
49:22 Any tips for implementing scrum for teams that are service/operational teams who's resources are shared by the product development teams, or are business/user research teams who create and send work to those dev teams?
52:35 What is the difference between an Agile Manager and an Agile Leader?
55:42 We are using US in our sprints, the team verifies the US complies with INVEST and has an acceptance criteria however for some reason,the Dev Team does not want to test each US and wait for the whole MVP, I think there is something wrong here. Have you had this situation some time? How did you find a solution? -
Raw Agility Episode 3 - reserve sprint points for break fix work
How do you handle break fix work among Scrum Teams? Do you reserve sprint points for that work? The company has no desire at this time to create a break fix team. -
Raw Agility Episode 3 - principles of Scrum and Kanban that make it a great combination.
My team/organization is just starting to use agile principles. The team consists of a few business analysts that support three development teams by fleshing out requirements. I'm new to the team and the first product role in the organization. We currently have issues limiting work in progress and getting colleagues to commit to deadlines. My experience with Scrum is extremely positive and I'd like to get our team using scrum principles. Currently Kanban is used and Scrums is viewed with trepidation. Could you highlight a few limitations of Kanban-only processes, and how you see scrum as an effective way of working? -
Raw Agility Episode 3 - Scrum on a team with many use cases
How do you implement scrum in a data analytics team, where each team member is working on a use case and each one have their own goals?
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T-Shirt sizing at PI Planning (click to vote)
Does have sense to do t-shirt sizing to know what should be done over the next months when we are in a quarterly PI Safe?
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Anonymous asked 7 months ago
Anonymous asked 7 months ago58 views1 answers1 votes
Ability to Innovate vs Time to Market (click to vote)
Why "time spent merging code between branches" and "time spent context-switching" are considered "Ability To Innovate" metrics instead of "Time-To-Market" metrics?
ResolvedValenti Alessio asked 6 months ago
Valenti Alessio asked 6 months ago54 views1 answers1 votes
I entered as a developer in the middle of a project, however, I realized that the previous development team accepted stories that were not possible to solve with the curreny tools. Any recommendations for developers in order to protect us from these situations?
ResolvedEmmanuel Cruz asked 7 months ago
Emmanuel Cruz asked 7 months ago31 views1 answers1 votes
I work with a Scrum team where the developers know that they are a self-managing team and they get to determine the format for the Daily Scrum. They want to change their daily scrums to be a daily chat on Slack, rather than a Zoom meeting. How do you feel about that?
ResolvedAnonymous Attendee asked 7 months ago
Anonymous Attendee asked 7 months ago42 views1 answers1 votes
I'm a SM within Scrum team that is developing an MVP. The organisation requires it to be delivered by a certain date and we feel we need extra people in the team to deliver it in time due to the number of stories we have. What's the best approach to upscale and train additional team members quickly?
ResolvedRob Foster asked 7 months ago
Rob Foster asked 7 months ago32 views1 answers1 votes
If you identify that team is on loose ends in Sprint Review,what could we do as an SM to bring the pace ? (click to vote)
If you identify that team is on loose ends in Sprint Review,what could we do as an SM to bring the pace ?
ResolvedAnonymous Attendee asked 7 months ago
Anonymous Attendee asked 7 months ago57 views1 answers1 votes
Is there a benefit to a Project Manager being SCRUM certified? (click to vote)
Is there a benefit to a Project Manager being SCRUM certified?
ResolvedAnonymous Attendee asked 7 months ago
Anonymous Attendee asked 7 months ago39 views1 answers1 votes
What do you think about non-dev roles in scrum? Do we need bussines analyst, solution architect or quality assurance according to your experience? There are a lot of opinions which say that we dont need such roles in SCRUM. Thanks!
ResolvedGabriela Gheorghe asked 7 months ago
Gabriela Gheorghe asked 7 months ago46 views1 answers1 votes
What role as a servant leader does a Scrum Master ideally should play in terms of Project Management, Release MAnagement and overall delivery (click to vote)
What role as a servant leader does a Scrum Master ideally should play in terms of Project Management, Release MAnagement and overall delivery
ResolvedGayatri Desai asked 7 months ago
Gayatri Desai asked 7 months ago42 views1 answers1 votes
re-estimation (click to vote)
Should we re-estimate items at any time/\\\\”status\\\\” (except \\\\”Done\\\\”), like for example \\\\”In progress\\\\” or \\\\”In test\\\\”?
AnsweredAnonymous asked 7 months ago
Anonymous asked 7 months ago72 views1 answers1 votes
Scrum in a project deadline (click to vote)
We are supposed to adopt Scrum, but behind we do not have a product, but a project and its deadlines. What to do in this case?
AnsweredAnonymous asked 7 months ago
Anonymous asked 7 months ago66 views1 answers1 votes
Alternatives to Velocity (click to vote)
I heard Velocity and Story Points are not the ideal way to go, but never saying what is better. What would be better alternatives?
AnsweredAnonymous asked 7 months ago
Anonymous asked 7 months ago82 views1 answers1 votes
Estimation scale of several teams working on the same product (click to vote)
Should teams working on the same Product Backlog have the same estimation scale (1, 2, 3, 5, etc.)?
AnsweredAnonymous asked 7 months ago
Anonymous asked 7 months ago62 views1 answers1 votes
Change estimation scale frequency (click to vote)
Is it ok to change estimation scale every now and then?
AnsweredAnonymous asked 7 months ago
Anonymous asked 7 months ago67 views1 answers1 votes
Co-Active coaching vs Coaching? (click to vote)
What is the difference between Co-Active coaching and Coaching?
AnsweredValenti Alessio asked 6 months ago
Valenti Alessio asked 6 months ago77 views1 answers1 votes
Agile's principles revolve around "sustainable" and "continuous" but within Scrum, what would your response be to a team that believes it needs an "off week" between sprints for developer-driven testing, documentation, etc.?
AnsweredAnonymous Attendee asked 7 months ago
Anonymous Attendee asked 7 months ago63 views1 answers1 votes
What is the difference between an Agile Manager and an Agile Leader?
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We are using US in our sprints, the team verifies the US complies with INVEST and has an acceptance criteria however for some reason,the Dev Team does not want to test each US and wait for the whole MVP, I think there is something wrong hereHave you had this situation some time? How did you find a solution?
57 views1 answers1 votes
Any tips for implementing scrum for teams that are service/operational teams who's resources are shared by the product development teams, or are business/user research teams who create and send work to those dev teams?
79 views1 answers2 votes
as scrum master, i got confused how to be more effective with high performance team?sometimes i feel my role is not mandatory to the team (click to vote)
as scrum master, i got confused how to be more effective with high performance team?sometimes i feel my role is not mandatory to the team
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Any suggestion how to deal with companies in transition, which try to put everything they deemed to be done into the PBL instead of having the Product owner make the choice?
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Do we really HAVE to use Story Points ?? if so, what’s the best way to use ’em? Thanks! (click to vote)
Do we really HAVE to use Story Points ?? if so, what's the best way to use 'em? Thanks!
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Being a new certified Scrum Master, do you habe a suggestions how to address job adverts where the companies ask for some years of experience? (click to vote)
Being a new certified Scrum Master, do you habe a suggestions how to address job adverts where the companies ask for some years of experience?
48 views1 answers2 votes
Can you share best practices for managing/utilizing team members working on multiple (not connected) projects, helping the DevTeam to increase it's velocity.
48 views1 answers2 votes
Going on the what and the how. Is feature delivery valuable? The Product owner comes up with the feature, the developers create stories to complete said feature. Or is this to driving?
50 views1 answers2 votes