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Scrum – Can you extend the Sprint duration midway through a Sprint because of some reason




The Sprint duration is typically a fixed duration, being the same for every such Sprint. Getting a fixed Sprint duration means that the team is able to work out many processes that increase efficiency, allows the Sprint team to develop a rhythm; such fixing of the duration also allows various stakeholders including the ScrumMaster and [...]



Scrum – How to prevent the Product Owner from trying to micro-manage the team




This is a topic that one would not expect to see happening on a regular basis. After all, in Scrum, the role definition is fairly clear – there is a Scrum team that is self-organizing and much empowered, there is a Product Owner who owns the feature definition, and feature prioritization, and then there is [...]



Scrum – When the Product Owner finds it difficult to attend the meetings (Sprint Planning, Retrospective, Demo, and Daily Scrum)




This subject is probably one of the most debated and disputed topics in the entire discussion about Scrum. How many meetings should the Product Owner attend ? If you look at Scrum, there are these set of meetings: – Sprint Planning: In this meeting (or rather, extended meeting), the Product Owner explains the various User [...]



Scrum problem – when there are multiple Product Owners for the project, and they do not coordinate well




The problem that I am describing in this post does not happen for a large number of projects, where you have teams of around 5 – 10 people, with one Scrum team, and one Product Owner. In teams of this size, everything is self-contained and the team does not have any dependencies that cannot be [...]