Re:Leave scrum to rugby, I like getting stuff done
by dogman144 on Tuesday May 19, 2020 @08:49AM
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Effectively nails it. OP sounds like he has bad product owners and ticket grooming, in some ways. Management buy-in to the different "forms" a ticket can take is important to avoid Scrum Masters making velocity charts and other various job-justifying tools that they display to themselves for themselves but hold their teams accountable for.
Re:Leave scrum to rugby, I like getting stuff done
by kjs3 on Tuesday May 19, 2020 @04:53PM
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This seems to be my (management) take on it. The agile environments I've been involved in, all I see are the 'scrum masters' flogging everyone to clear all the tickets by some arbitrary date, no matter what they are. I've had to step in and say 'I'd rather this get done right than get done on your timeline' more than once. Pretty much why I've never bought into it...
But that only works when management is willing to say “this ticket will be on the board for a while and that’s okay, we won’t harass you about it.” That is, scrum is decent for organization but bad for management.
A good tipoff is how long standup lasts. It should be no longer than 15 minutes for a team of six, and that’s stretching it. Aim for 1-2 minutes of talking. That’s more than enough to say “I worked on tickets X and Y, I’m stuck on A and making good progress on B.”