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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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What would you advise for. a team which dont want to work in an agile way – context – sprint after sprint the team still work the same way (click to vote)
What would you advise for. a team which dont want to work in an agile way - context - sprint after sprint the team still work the same way
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How does People leader work with either PO or SM role? (click to vote)
How does People leader work with either PO or SM role?
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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? (click to vote)
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?
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How to split a product into several one when the former product relies on the same already existing common “code base”? (click to vote)
How to split a product into several one when the former product relies on the same already existing common "code base"?
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"Agile salaries" (click to vote)
In Scrum every Sprint may be the last one, so how can internal or external workers have undetermined contract time?
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Anonymous asked 7 months ago
Anonymous asked 7 months ago74 views1 answers2 votes
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?
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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?
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In your experience, have you worked with team(s) which at some point didn`t need coaching (scrum mastering) anymore? (click to vote)
In your experience, have you worked with team(s) which at some point didn`t need coaching (scrum mastering) anymore?
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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?
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When dealing with a company appointed Product Owner, that isnt well educated in Product Ownership, best advice to start without causing a rift bewtween the buisness and the dev team?
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What do you think about using Scrum in an environment where things changes a lot and its hard to mantain focus or there´s no stable teams? (click to vote)
What do you think about using Scrum in an environment where things changes a lot and its hard to mantain focus or there´s no stable teams?
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Can you more elaborate what empiricism is? (click to vote)
Can you more elaborate what empiricism is?
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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....,
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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
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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? Its 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.
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Where a team is using Scrum but the team members are all working on disparate items is there value in doing Scrum and how does one set a Sprint Goal?
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Agile Coach (click to vote)
Can you give advice for finding a Agile Coach? What qualifications should we be looking for? And what department should the Agile Coach report into (e.g. IT, Product, PMO, etc.)
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Our scrum team adds enough work to keep the developers busy during the sprint but we are always rolling over due to the QA not being completed. How do we get out of that cycle? If we reduce what we put in the sprint, then Devs may be looking for work mid sprint.
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How do you respond to a business where the requirements change (which is fine
we embrace change), but too soon before a sprint starts. So, we cannot possibly refine, understand and estimate this new change in time for sprint planning
yet most of the time these changes are labeled as the highest priority work? This comes from a Product Owner primarily, feeling like I am forcing work into the Development team and needing to put in 12 hour days to stay ahead.
Openscott fawcett asked 7 months ago
scott fawcett asked 7 months ago76 views0 answers1 votes
However the Dev Team has User Stories defined which complies with INVEST Criteria and have acceptance criteria, they prefer to test all Users Stories when MVP (minimium valuable product) is achieved. That could be counterproductive with having an increment at the end of the sprint., Have you had any situation like this? Thougths?
OpenAnonymous Attendee asked 7 months ago
Anonymous Attendee asked 7 months ago72 views0 answers1 votes
How do you help the Dev Team come up with estimates for the business to make decisions without a lot of the details. (click to vote)
How do you help the Dev Team come up with estimates for the business to make decisions without a lot of the details.
OpenAnonymous Attendee asked 7 months ago
Anonymous Attendee asked 7 months ago25 views0 answers1 votes
I am wondering if they are speaking of CD, often with a kanban approach of constraint control (click to vote)
I am wondering if they are speaking of CD, often with a kanban approach of constraint control
ClosedTim Williams asked 7 months ago
Tim Williams asked 7 months ago29 views0 answers1 votes
How do I make the official move to becoming a SCRUM master with no prior experience other than a PSM1? (Specifics appreciated!) Thanks John for an amazing course!
OpenAnonymous Attendee asked 7 months ago
Anonymous Attendee asked 7 months ago27 views0 answers1 votes
How much emphasis should be placed on measuring the efficency/delivery output of the team by means of burndown charts, sprint reports etc? The team is performing well, but there is a pressure from upper up to report such metrics.
OpenSteve Kuht asked 7 months ago
Steve Kuht asked 7 months ago21 views0 answers1 votes
How to do scrum when the company operates in a V-cycle and the IT department has a different operation and takes care of the development of all the Product owners on the AMOA side
ClosedElhadj Doumbouya asked 7 months ago
Elhadj Doumbouya asked 7 months ago28 views0 answers2 votes