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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 [...]



Problem in Scrum: Looking at technical debt, which will cause more problems as you move ahead ..




What is technical debt ? Well, I will not try and give a definition for technical debt. Instead, consider that you have 2 approaches to build some great new features. You can do something in a quick way without trying to build a great design, or you can build it the proper way through the [...]



Problem in Scrum: Inability to prioritize the architectural and design tasks – Part 2




In the previous post (Not putting design priority), I had talked about how a Scrum team can face challenges in terms of prioritizing the architecture and design tasks. In this post, I will continue my previous discussions and talk about how teams do actually place a lot of emphasis on the design part, and how [...]



Problem in Scrum: Inability to prioritize the architectural and design tasks – Part 1




Over a period of time, some of the discussions that I have had with fellow managers, and more specifically with managers who play the role of Scrum Masters come to a conclusion revealing a weakness in Scrum implementation. Projects where there is initial time spent on planning the architecture and design for the end project [...]