Raw Agility – A Monthly Live Webcast

Raw Agility is a monthly program dedicated to answering your questions to your situations to empower you to effectively practice agility.

Every month, professional agile trainers address questions submitted by you.
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The December 2021 episode features Agile trainers John Riley and Sander Dur address 15 tough questions.

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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?