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

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

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

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.

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

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?

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

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.

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

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

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?

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

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?

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….,

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?

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

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

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 ?

Can you more elaborate what empiricism is?

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.

Remember the time you started as scrum Master, how did you convince you first teams that you’re the right person in place?

In your experience, how do you measure your success as a Scrum Master?

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?

Given the Scrum events, which would be the ones who should be lead by the Product Owner (maybe Refinement and Planning)?