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Dividing a project into multiple milestones for tracking purposes




Our team was used to working on short projects, doing projects that had a total duration of between 2 /3 months. For such short projects, we would meet regularly (twice a week or more, depending on how close we were to the release), and would review status at each such meeting. In these meetings, based [...]



Does a smaller size of Sprint mean more overhead ?




In the organization where I work, most of the Sprint cycles are 3-4 weeks long. When trying to determine the size of what a Sprint should be, most teams new to Scrum do not have any great planning process on how to determine the size of the Sprint cycle, and decide based on their talking [...]



Problem – When stakeholders disrupt the prioritized feature list of items for a Scrum team




When you start working out some of the basic assumptions of how a Scrum team is supposed to work, one of the base assumptions is that the Product Owner sets the priorities of all the features / User Stories for a Sprint. Now, depending upon business needs, this order can even be changed midway during [...]



What to do when priority of your requirements changes in the middle of the cycle ?




One of the questions that I saw recently coming up during a recent discussion was about what happens when you need to change your requirements during the middle of a Sprint cycle. This was a team that had set Sprint cycles of 30 days duration, and normally never had an issue with any modifications required [...]