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

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 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.

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?

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?

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?

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?

what is the next step of scrum master in his career path ?

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.

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?Thanks,CJ

How to split a product into several one when the former product relies on the same already existing common “code base”?

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

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)

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

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?

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?

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

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

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

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

Your views on cross-functional vs temporary SME, as well as technical-orientated team members vs business-orientated team members within in a Scrum Team? Note: temporary SME is also in-line with question above about Scrum Team utilization.

Can you more elaborate what empiricism is?

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