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In the Daily Scrum meeting, why is it so hard to get people to discuss with each rather than the Scrum Master (project manager in disguise)




The Daily Scrum is a very simple, and yet a very integral part of the Scrum process. The idea is to get the team to work with each other, and discuss the items that they have done, are going to be doing next, and any obstacles (impediments) in their path. These are 3 questions: 1. [...]



A contrarian approach, some problems with Scrum as seen by my experience




Scrum somewhat problematic for us

This post can be a bit challenging; it was most challenging to me when I started writing it, since Scrum has been sold as a solution for most software development projects. Along with this, previous software development methodologies such as Waterfall, Spiral, etc are slowly getting marked as methodologies that [...]



Problems that are caused during Scrum when a team member is not full time on the project




In the ideal case, a person will be working on the Scrum project full time, with that also being the assumption made when the several items of Scrum such as Daily Scrum Meeting, Velocity, Burndown Charts, etc are all calculated. However, there are cases when a team is fairly busy in multiple items and people [...]



What are some of the impediments that can hold up a Daily Scrum ? How are impediments handled ?




Part of the routine of a Daily Scrum is where team members come up with the issues that they face which could be stopping them from doing their work. These are called impediments, and are typically problems that are preventing them from completing their work. Once the team members articulate their impediments, it is the [...]