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Not pushing the team too hard – a fine balance that can be easy to miss – Part 3 ..




This is a series of posts that I am writing about the dynamics of a team, and how it came to be that we started getting push back from the team about pushing them too hard, which lead to a series of introspective discussions (Pushing the team too hard) about whether we had gone too [...]



Why does the Scrum Velocity of a team differ from its Capacity ?




In the previous post (Sprint Capacity vs. Sprint velocity), we had tried to explain the difference between Scrum Capacity and Scrum Velocity, and even though they should theoretically be same, there are any number of reasons why they can be different and should be measured separately. In this post, we will go into more reasons [...]



How is the role of a Project Manager different from the role of Scrum Master




For teams that move from a other development methodology (such as Waterfall, Iterative, etc), the transition to moving to a Scrum based method comes with its own challenges, with one of the main challenges being the transition of roles. In the classical development methodology, the Project Manager is the person who runs the project, looking [...]



More information about the Product Backlog




To me, it seems like I have written several posts about the Product Backlog, but it is also true that the Product Backlog is a very important part of Scrum, and it is necessary to make sure that people understand all the details regarding what all Product Backlog is, how it is updated, when, who, [...]