What happens when you don’t have a fully cross-functional Scrum Team?
So, you have a Scrum Team. But does your team have all the necessary cross-functional skills to get to a “done” increment each Sprint?
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10 Symptoms Your Scrum Team is Broken, Part 2
Part 2 is here! Enjoy 10 more signs and symptoms that your Scrum Team has gone astray and is broken (and a few hints on what to do instead).
More Agile Great Debates – Part 9
In this episode of “More Agile Great Debates,” I tackle five more topics: Generalist vs. Specialist, Quality, Canceling Sprints, and more!
More Agile Great Debates, Part 8
This time on “More Agile Great Debates”: incomplete backlogs, improvements, “special” Sprints, people swapping, and cross-functionality.
More Agile Great Debates – Part 7
Here are my latest five great agile debates: Story Points, Job Titles, Velocity, Project Managers, and Business Analysis. Join the argument!
The Great User Story Debate: To Assign or Not to Assign on Agile Teams
Should Sprint Backlog Items (aka User Stories) be assigned to an individual, or left un-assigned? This is my latest Agile great debate.
More Agile Great Debates, Part 4
In the fourth installment of my blog series on “More Agile Great Debates,” I dive into another five topics that people like to argue about.
There isn’t a Project Manager role in Scrum (Agile)
There, I said it. I know it’s controversial, but it’s true: there isn’t a Project Manager role in Scrum or Agile. That is, while there is no Project Manager in Scrum, many project management activities still need to happen. They just occur at different times and in different formats. PMs have struggled to find their …
What happens with part-time Scrum Team members?
Ideally, your Scrum Team includes full-time people with the right cross-functional skills; but if you have part-timers, you’ll have problems.
There are no “Special” Sprints in Scrum
There should be no “special” Sprints in Scrum. The goal of every iteration is to create a working increment that is potentially releasable.