What Happens if Your Scrum Team isn’t Trained?
Scrum Teams without formal training are apt to make tons of mistakes because they don’t have experience or guidance. Here’s what can happen.
Scrum Teams without formal training are apt to make tons of mistakes because they don’t have experience or guidance. Here’s what can happen.
Not delivering a “done” increment at the end of a Sprint can cause many negative consequences. It’s a bad habit and won’t make anyone happy.
My clients ask: “How do we deal with Production Support issues in Agile when our Scrum Team supports both the product and its development?”
Ideally, your Scrum Team includes full-time people with the right cross-functional skills; but if you have part-timers, you’ll have problems.
Without a caring, competent Product Owner, most products will fail to come to fruition, earn and retain market share, and evolve.
There should be no “special” Sprints in Scrum. The goal of every iteration is to create a working increment that is potentially releasable.
While Scrum is a flexible framework, it isn’t Scrum unless you have all the components, so NO, it’s not okay to skip some Scrum events!
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?
I can’t tell you how many organizations I have worked with that had employees who confused the Sprint Review with the Sprint Retrospective.
A “Definition of Done” is a commitment to deliver a working increment meeting defined quality criteria to ensure the increment is complete.