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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?

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

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

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

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?

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

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

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 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?

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

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?

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?

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?

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

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.

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?

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?

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

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

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

How can we handle this situation as a scrum master-> My team is new and taking more than few sprints to come up to spead (no one to guide the team technically, due to technical competencies, new environment, etc.). I as scrum master is trying to help the team fix these slowly and steadly, however the management is looking for results and so do the clients. Any different way of dealing this scenario?

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….,

In Scrum every Sprint may be the last one, so how can internal or external workers have undetermined contract time?