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Hi all,
And welcome to a new week at www.implementingscrum.com.
I am going to be on the West Coast of the USA this week (wheels up in about 22 minutes) and will be teaching a public CSM course in Irvine; then I am heading down south to San Diego for a private consulting engagement on Thursday and Friday, and home on Saturday morning from a red-eye.
Wahoo. The “glamourous” life of a consultant (smile).
So I’d like to ask you a question….
If you could ask 6.5 questions to any person practicing Scrum in the “real world” (whatever the heck that is!), what would they be?
I have some ideas, but figured I’d ask YOU what you want to know.
I’ll reveal the plan tomorrow of how I will be asking them — but rest assured like the comic strips, we will have a lot of fun with these segments and hopefully this will help all of us learn even more about Scrum in the Real World and how people are implementing it in practice.
Peace Out.
Thank you!
- mike vizdos
www.michaelvizdos.com
www.implementingscrum.com
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June 17th, 2008 at 10:56 am
I’m starting my CSM course tomorrow, these are my biggest questions from my experience with Scrum so far.
1) on small teams, how do you handle the same people doing customer support and development work? there is fixed work and an unknown of emergency client requests that can completely derail the sprint.
2) I am fanatical about not interrupting sprints (ours are 2 weeks) and often get told “I’m not agile”. Obviously there is some give and take required, but unless the world is blowing up, I will not interrupt the sprint, especially when they are short.
3) shouldn’t your velocity level off after a few sprints?
Sorry, couldn’t think of 6.5 questions!
June 17th, 2008 at 11:10 am
oops, sorry, thought of another one
4) is attaching ‘acceptance criteria’ (AKA use cases) to a story for clarification a bad thing?
5) does the product owner belong in the sprint planning session or task breakout sessions?
June 18th, 2008 at 1:46 am
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