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Fixing Your Scrum
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Fixing Your Scrum

by Ryan Ripley, Todd Miller
January 2020
Intermediate to advanced
242 pages
6h 5m
English
Pragmatic Bookshelf
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Marathon Planning Events

The team in the example scenario suffered through painful sprint planning sessions. They tried to define requirements for very generic product backlog items that they hadn’t seen before. The time it took to figure out what to build left them no time to consider how to build it.

The rush to figure out the requirements during sprint planning lead to many questions. During the sprint, development team members sought clarification about what they were supposed to implement: They scheduled meetings, sent emails, and dropped by stakeholders’ and subject matter experts’ desks to try to get answers. This led to a lot of frustration in the organization as people outside the team complained about the constant interruptions the ...

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