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How does the Scrum team decrease the difference between Capacity and Velocity ?




In the previous post (Scrum team – Difference between Capacity and Velocity), I had talked about some of the reasons as to why the capacity of a scrum team is different from that of its velocity. In this post, I will try to explain how we can bridge this difference. Most teams do not see [...]



A description of Scrum For Project Managers – some details




The product requirements of Scrum are typically chunked into a small set called a Story, or feature, with a short narrative description, somewhat like a use case or a test case. When you talk to people who are involved in Scrum, you will hear the word ‘Story’ many times. Let us go into more detail [...]



Engineering Practices Not Taken Care of by Scrum – Some details




Scrum never talks about engineering practices which is a good thing but this sometimes lands teams into trouble. The teams not only adopt the Scrum practices but also the principles which makes their progress sluggish and results in the code base being in a mess. This is a situation which is present in most of [...]



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 [...]