Agile Guru - Agile Culture, Management Best Practices and App Dev Practices

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Agile Guru Q & A

September 16, 2014

Caleb Brown

Agile Coach

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–My leadership team decided to stop using Scrum and return to chaos, but wants to return to scrum in the future. Developers and analysts liked Scrum because it made them better workers, but management did not because it showed their flaws. How can Scrum survive if management continues with the "God complex"?

Topic: God Complex

Questions


–How to address need for High Level Design before any estimation or engagement starts?

Topic: Design Up Front?

Questions


–Agile methodology for multiple teams across different time zone.

Topic: Timezones

Questions


–Do you agree in equating a story point (in planning poker) to hours? I'm never a fan of this but I can't clearly justify why.

–Velocity in general and how this should be matched with macro project planning where deadlines are defined by business.

Topic: Estimation and Velocity

Questions


Always remember that Effort

Points are Relative. It can be

easy to lose sight of this.

Velocity is simply the rate we complete Effort Points


Relative Estimation


Release Burn Up


–Agile adoption by PMs, Managers, Finance, Architects, Product Marketing, Sales.... Beyond the worker bee...

–Going from Waterfall/SDLC to Agile/Scrum methodologies and teams.

–Program manager integration with Scrum Masters and Product Owners. How to support the scrum process and still keep VP/Dir satisfied with the process.

Topic: Agile Adoption

Questions


Pain & Agile Adoption


–If management is used to receiving regular (weekly/bi-weekly) updates on projects via email, how do you manage those expectations with Agile projects. Do most agile users still push regular updates regarding the project status to management?

Topic: Keeping Managers Updated?

Questions:


Topic: Scrum for Non-Software Development Teams?

Questions:

– Should we try scrum with game art team (character and environment building)?


–"Implementing bug fixing into the sprint for game development?"

Topic: Bug Fixing in Scrum

Questions:


Topic: ScrumMastery

Questions:

– Growing into a mentoring / coaching role?

– What do you do when your sprint planning meetings are dragging on and not being effective. How do you make them more efficient and effective?

–How does the scrum master report his work or document progress with the development team?


–The question that came in was simply; “Story Deconstruction”

Topic: Story Deconstruction

Questions:

Remember that not everything on the backlog must be expressed as a user story.


Topic: Beginning a Project?

Questions:

–Upfront Work when starting a new project (analysis, design, etc..) - what if any is optimal?


Topic: Product Ownership

Questions:

– Priority management. We get a lot of requests from different departments, clients, etc...is there a good strategy on what request should go before another? – How to deal with a PO who "in a couple

months of weekends" built the failing tool your team has been tasked to replace, and why it costs more for HTML5 over Silverlight to accomplish it.


Topic: Mixed Development Practices?

Questions:

– How to run an agile project with some systems developed in a waterfall and others capable of doing sprints, but all will ultimately be tested and deployed together?


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