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Do Scrum of Scrums meetings add value to the project – Part 1




One of the most confusing meetings for new entrants to Scrum is the Scrum of Scrums meeting. For a lot of people, there is no clear understanding about why this meeting is held, who are the participants, frequency, agenda, etc. I have been through a couple of trainings and those did not really cover the [...]



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 [...]



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 [...]



When the Scrum Master acts on behalf of the team, commits tasks without consulting the team ..




There is a lot of confusion in Scrum teams about the boundaries of the role of the Scrum Master. For teams that have only recently moved over from some other project development methodology such as Waterfall, in a number of cases, the role of a Scrum Master is taken by one of the managers of [...]