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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? 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?

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

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?

i recently became certified as a PSM. i work in an IT org who hasn’t yet adopted scrum. i work on a portfolio management team and one of our initiatives is to convince and guide the leadership to adopt a full agile/scrum transformation. i am on a personal mission to equip the teams with scrum values and scrum principles in small ways with every interaction. What i’m up against is a culture that works with a project mindset not a product mindset. the leaders and stakeholders are more concerned with meeting due dates and overlooking the importance of quality and speed of delivery. what advice do you have?

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?

The IT dept is Agile but the business is Waterfall what approach would you take to win the business to Agile Scrum?

Hi! Would you share your experience with SAFE, scaled scrum? What could be the key points for transformation?

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?

If your engineering manager is adamant not to take new requests since we have already developed major feature ,but our product owner is like you will have to develop the new asks/requests …?How do we deal with situations like this ?

When dealing with a company appointed Product Owner, that isn’t well educated in Product Ownership, best advice to start without causing a rift bewtween the buisness and the dev team?