Raw Agility – A Monthly Live Webcast

Can you share your experience on release notes done good vs bad, and include a few tips on engaging the entire team to contribute?Should it be done along the Sprint, or prior to the Sprint Review?

How do we ensure the robustness of Software Architecture from Sprint1 to the last sprint as Agile works on MVP philosophy?

One of the inputs of the Sprint Planning meeting is the past performance. How the team performance should be measured?

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.

What is the goal of a Scrum of Scrum?Who should be the active participants in a SoS?

Can you share best practices for managing/utilizing team members working on multiple (not connected) projects, helping the DevTeam to increase it’s velocity.

How do you start switching your specific discipline team to a multidisciplinary team or T Model. Estimation of a User Story as a whole Dev Team is getting complex due to these different point of view and we end up estimating by Dev, QA, Design….,

How much can you Scrum be adapted to meet the needs of the organsiation?

What’s the best way to facilitate a team through Scrum sprints where they do not know how to use Scrum (or not very well)? Should we train people first or try and teach as we go, for example? Again, for non-developer teams.

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?

If you find the estimation useless/waste, what would be a better approach?How would you track progress, and predict amount of work that can be completed?

Our SCrum team considers a good practice to have a know buffering (measured) for unknown items that could occur inside the sprint and are accepted by the team. Is that a good practice?

How do you properly staff when you have 2 programs that will have different levels of requirements over a 12 month period sharing the same group of 26 development teams? Basically a program to develop applications on a new platform and a program to continue supporting applications on the existing platform. Is it ok to have teams move between programs every few sprints, for example, based on demand? It’s not possible to dedicate X number of teams to each because the requirements for the new platform are not yet well understood, so a work in progress.

Also, I am on a project helping a telecom company to implement Scrum, however, the development theam is new to Scrum and they want to make use of a hybrid framework where they use a waterfall approach for deliverables but Scrum tools to manage the project. This has generated confusion in the team and directly affects the Sprint Goal results. Any recommendation?

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?

How does People leader work with either PO or SM role?

What is the difference between an Agile Manager and an Agile Leader?

In your experience, have you worked with team(s) which at some point didn`t need coaching (scrum mastering) anymore?

What is your advise if you start to manage a project that the team is performing Scrum “Zombie” is not using well the scrum framework (events, cerimonies, etc)

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

How do you handle break fix work amongst Scrum Teams? Do you reserve sprint points for that work? The company has no desire at this time to create a break fix team.

Do we really HAVE to use Story Points ?? if so, what’s the best way to use ’em? Thanks!

Our clients are out of IT world, they don’t know Scrum. So is it possible to apply Scrum when the client is not up with it?

What would you advise for. a team which don’t want to work in an agile way – context – sprint after sprint the team still work the same way

How do you get more out of teams in retrospectives? Teams can sometimes be guarded in their responses. Being transparent doent always come naturally to people