I realize lots of people look upon certifications with some scepticism, but has anyone achieved ScrumMaster and found a big difference in the response they were getting from potential employers? ...
If you go to the class and pay for it, will you ever not get certified. If thats the case... What exactly does it certify? That you have 2k, and can show up to a place for 2 days? ...
** EDIT: Rephrased the question to re-focus ** Our Scrum team meets as seldomly as possible, but we meet with the product owner every chance we get. We track everyone's agreed action points (particularly theirs). We are 100% agile, but our product owner lives in traditional world, we remain off-site. We facilitate him in crossing ove...
We are looking into adopting Scrum and would want our Scrum Masters to be able to handle 3~4 parallel Sprints. These parallel sprints can be for a single product or unrelated products. Is it a better practice to start the parallel sprints 1~2 days appart or have a wider gap than that. ...
Is saw that are out there Scrum certifications to become certified scrum master!?. I'm not a big fan of certifications in general, but getting a certification for a methodology, for a way of doing things doesn't make sense at all to me. Can you give me other perspectives please, maybe I am wrong. ...
Hi Im looking for yours best practices for using Google Docs to scrum management. I found many entries on blogs about using Google Docs to serving sprint log, burndown chart etc. but is very difficult get value example of this "Docs". Please share Yours best Google Doc for Scrum. ...
This is more a theory and correctness of the process more than practical. I am curious to know if the Scrum Master will have to answer the three questions below in the stand up meeting. Things I have done since yesterday's meeting Things I am going to get done today Obstacles that I need someone to remove ...
hi, we have started to work in scrum methodology, and i always get me development be disconnected from the time frames we need to align. how you make your team members to be aware of the time they have committed to perform each coding task? how do you make them aware of the general time frame i.e. releases etc are there any softwar...
Hi all, I've seen many articles about how to put together Agile RFP's and negotiating agile contracts, but how about if you're responding to a more traditional RFP? Any advice on how to meet the requirements of the RFP while still presenting an agile approach? A lot of these traditional RFP's request specific technical implementations...
As a scrum master introducing scrum to an organization, how do avoid also being product owner? problem facts: I am working on a project as scrum master. Since the organization is new to scrum, I have assumed the role of setting meetings with stakeholders to form their system vision into user stories. At present, the stakeholders are n...
My work uses a Scrum-like process to manage projects. I say Scrum-like, because we call it Scrum, but our project managers exclude aspects of Scrum that are inconvenient (most notably customer interaction). One of the stories in our current sprint was to correct a defect. After spending almost an entire day working on the issue, I deter...
In the 5/15 minute scrum meeting the 3 questions are asked. For the last question "what impediments are getting in your way" If a dev has problems - the xyz is going to have problems, this is likely going to draw the meeting out past 15 mins and could go into a hour long discussion. Is it the scrum masters job to help this user, is th...
We are a small team of 5 people (Product Owner, Product Owner Assistant, and 3 Developers) and I am currently moving us to become an Agile team using scrum to manage the project. I have been reading Agile Project Management with scrum, the help documentation for Rally, and various blogs to try and bring myself up to speed on Agile softwa...
Hello, My team is starting our first Scrum cycle. Daily stand-up meetings are required, as of today. My question is, what is your time limit on individual speaking in a daily stand-up meeting? How long should one person speak? Does your team have time limits on daily stand-up speaking? ...
I'm interested to see how other people have handled scheduling the various scrum meetings (standup, sprint planning, estimation, retrospective, etc.) but none of the books I've read on Scrum include any template calendars for 2 or 3 week sprints. There are lots of recommendations like standup should be first thing in the morning, you s...
I'm a developer working in a small team with another developer and a QA who is split across 5 projects and I've recently been given the title of Scrum Master. I've a few questions/issues which I was wondering if I could get a hand with: I've not found any good central place for information on my new role, can anyone point me in the ri...
Would you say the 2 roles are analagous? Ie the scrum master doesn't fly the planes (code the app) himself, he makes sure that the pilots are flying (coding them) correctly and is responsible for making sure they land (sign off) correctly. He co-ordinates his planes (programmers) so that each is flying in their own airspace and not cra...