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The sun is sinking lower in the sky as you walk to your car after a long day at Bigshot Games, a producer of video slot machine software located just outside of Las Vegas, NV.\u00a0 As you watch the sun descend lower in the sky, you can\u2019t help but see it as a symbol of your Team\u2019s sinking Agile adoption.<\/p>\n
The Team that you serve, \u201cBeginner\u2019s Luck\u201d, made the transition to an Agile method approximately two months ago by selecting Scrum. \u00a0Following an Agile Boot Camp that detailed the specifics of the method, the Team established a number of roles and began executing two-week sprints.\u00a0 Throughout your eight sprints together, a number of issues have arisen that are making you think that the Team\u2019s luck may have run out.<\/p>\n
First, the Team is struggling to get to a potentially releasable product increment each sprint.\u00a0 While everyone is busy during the sprint, it just seems like there isn\u2019t enough time within a two-week to get everything \u201cDone\u201d.\u00a0 Some members of the Team have mentioned that extending the sprint to three-weeks might help complete all of the testing so that you could actually release, but you are unsure as to what to do.<\/p>\n
Part of the problem may be the Team\u2019s Product Backlog.\u00a0 The Team struggles in every Sprint Planning meeting to understand each of the Product Backlog Items.\u00a0 Some of them are incredibly large causing the Team to spend an inordinate amount of time during Planning understanding and breaking them down.\u00a0 You have spoken to the Team\u2019s Product Owner, Sonny, about helping the Team out by reviewing the Backlog prior to Sprint Planning, but he stated, \u201cI just don\u2019t have any more time to devote to developing this system.\u00a0 I\u2019m stretched as it is, besides, I don\u2019t know enough about this area of the business.\u201d<\/p>\n
One of the business analysts on the Team has been attempting to help Sonny in fulfilling his role, but has not been very successful.\u00a0 The Team doesn\u2019t seem to be respecting June\u2019s opinion often commenting, \u201cJune \u2013 the Product Owner owns the Product Backlog\u201d or \u201cThat\u2019s great June, but you don\u2019t understand how the system works\u201d.<\/p>\n
June has really made an effort to work in a cross-functional way since the Team made the move to Scrum.\u00a0 She has been offering to not only assist Sonny, but also help out with testing and even expressed interest in learning how to write SQL.\u00a0 Most of these efforts have been rebuffed as a number of the Team members claim that June simply doesn\u2019t have the skills necessary to assist or state, \u201cHaving you help will just slow me down\u201d.<\/p>\n
As you settle in your car for your commute home and survey the Las Vegas skyline glistening against the fading sun, you ponder what, if anything, can be done to help the \u201cBeginner\u2019s Luck\u201d Team.<\/p>\n
The sun is sinking lower in the sky as you walk to your car after a long day at Bigshot Games, a producer of video slot machine software located just outside of Las Vegas, NV.\u00a0 As you watch the sun descend lower in the sky, you can\u2019t help but see it as a symbol of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":10555,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"coauthors":[182],"class_list":["post-7325","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-agile"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.watermarklearning.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7325","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.watermarklearning.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.watermarklearning.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.watermarklearning.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.watermarklearning.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7325"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/www.watermarklearning.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7325\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9476,"href":"https:\/\/www.watermarklearning.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7325\/revisions\/9476"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.watermarklearning.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10555"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.watermarklearning.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7325"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.watermarklearning.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7325"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.watermarklearning.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7325"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.watermarklearning.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=7325"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}