Questions tagged [scrum-master]
The Scrum Master is a manager who manages Scrum at an organization. She/He does this as a servant leader; they coach, teach, and act to encourage and support knowledge and practice of Scrum within Scrum teams and the organizations the Scrum Master serves.
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Product owner and/or scrum master in performance review of developers
Currently at my company three people take part in the annual performance evaluation of a software developer: the developer, product owner from the scrum team of the developer, head of software ...
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Advice regarding tools and insights from sprints on developer performance
I would like to get some help or ideas regarding the usage of JIRA and getting insights from it. I just joined a small company as a junior project manager. In the last several sprints, Developer "...
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Should backlog items be assigned to the scrum master?
I am having a debate with someone at work, think I know the answer, but I would like to hear what other people think. If anything, this will confirm that I am right, or show me a better way to ...
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How to efficiently handle a scrum project when part of development team are from external firm?
In my organisation for one of the project we follow Agile Scrum methodology and following is distribution of the man power for the project: Scrum Team: SM ProxyDev1(Internal): 50% in the project ...
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As a scrum master, what am I to my team?
This is a question about terminology. If I say "I'm a developer, and the team I'm a part of does foo" then you'd understand my position. If I'm a scrum master (who is a scrum master for two teams), ...
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How to resolve tasks completed from the backlog with no work done?
We have a mature product that we reuse for new projects. For one project, some tasks were created for already working features. Those tasks were all assigned 1 SP each. So, just as a sanity check, I ...
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Do "almost finished" tasks or stories justify planning with overload in the next sprint?
The case in question: The sprint is almost over and one of my Scrum teams did not finish some tasks. (The reason for this is not essential for this question and will be addressed accordingly.) One of ...
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Establishing Agile environment when the development team is external
I have joined a new workplace where they follow Agile (Scrum). There are several products, each has an internal product owner, but the development team is an external vendor (developers and scrum ...
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