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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 [...]



Make sure that you plan some of the logistics around your Scrum implementation – else you can get tripped up




People worry a lot about their Scrum implementation, in terms of ensuring that their people have got the required training, that some of the obvious pain points have been resolved, and in some cases, that a Scrum coach has been put in place. Over a period of time, getting hold of some of the issues [...]



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




For the past couple of posts, we have been writing posts that talk about the Capacity and Velocity of Scrum teams, and have started focusing on how to increase the Velocity of Scrum teams, as well as some of the problems that cause a reduction of the Velocity of Scrum teams. In the previous post [...]



Delivering to multiple clients – need to deliver through the Sprint rather than one deliverable at the end




We all learn things as we see stuff happening, and one of the items that I learnt was about a team that had changed to using the Scrum model of development, and was learning how to deal with multiple clients. Consider the case of large software companies such as Microsoft, Apple, and many others, where [...]