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How does the Scrum team decrease the difference between Capacity and Velocity (contd..) ?




In the previous post (Decrease difference between Capacity and Velocity), there was an attempt to explain how the team can increase their velocity, and also improve the way that they are able to estimate the amount of features that they can complete in each of their Sprints. In this post, we will talk more about [...]



Scrum teams across geographies – Try to co-locate them as much as possible




In today’s world, it is now more of a norm that when projects are large, teams can be located all over the world. Getting this geographically spread teams increases the chance of being able to get more talent to work on the issue, and where a low cost center such as India is involved, this [...]



Why does Scrum fail – the project was not actually Scrum




This is part of a series of posts that I am writing about, that deal with why Scrum projects can fail. It could be a variety of reasons, ranging from team resistance, to wrong policies, to bad management. In this post, I will deal with yet another reason as to why a Scrum project could [...]



Problems with a Scrum process in terms of being able to solve dependencies on other teams




A scrum based method of development enumerates that a team works on features on the basis of Sprint cycles, and takes up feature definition close to the actual time period of the Sprint. What this means is that for a typical team that used to work on a Waterfall model whereby the features to be [...]