Saket you're an angel. Great video! Text books and theory is for the birds when reality hits, it's a whole different ball game. There's nothing like environmental context...
Thanks Saket for giving so detail real time examples, scenarios and your videos covers every Scrum interview questions and answers. Loads of thank for all the help you are providing through your channel!
I am so grateful being landed here.. The way you are explaining is very much neutral and with deep understanding. I find it awesome it is working magically in all my interviews.. Thankyou so much Saket...God bless you with good health happiness wealth...LOVE YOU
@16:00 I had a Qa who didn't showup to any retros getting him to Retro was harder then cracking the job interview (stories of 2019) good old tech days.
Thank you for sharing, i think now 2024, people are not that much talking about process, rather they are more checking the ability to deliver in interviews.
Sir thanks for taking the efforts to clear the interview it really proves skills are not only important tact of dealing employees and communication is also important. you are really hitting bulls eye...
Scrum will say "Depends", in general its more a function of how organization is designed rather Scrum, since scrum is execution framework not org strategic decision making framework.
@iZenBridge Consultancy Pvt Ltd what are the ways to assess maturity of teams? How can we coach the team to higher level of maturity? I am really looking forward to your reply. Thanks!
Spotify Health Check may be the good starting point, you can know more about it here: engineering.atspotify.com/2014/09/16/squad-health-check-model/ There are many other models on team assessment , the above one can show the path.
Thank you for watching our videos on Scrum Master, we do run training programs like Certified Scrum Master and Advanced Scrum Master, do check if that can help you in advancing your career. for more information www.izenbridge.com/scrum/a-csm-advance-scrum-master-virtual/
@@izenbridge thanks for your reply, after a maternity gap I am searching for a job and I have done CSM certifi cation , can you suggest me on which course take up either PSM or ASM Which will add more value to my profile ? Please suggest
@@shalsrams5133 what i can see in the market is CSM and PSM 1 is considered at same level, so I do not see the requirement of doing PSM 1 after CSM. Now the question can be what should be done? I see make clarity on your target profile and see what kind of certifications and skills are asked in that target profile. Say if you target scrum master in small teams, you may do Advanced Scrum Master to get more readiness, if you target scrum master in Large teams (50+ people ) or say team of teams, that knowing Scaled Agile with the help of Leading SAFe will be good. If needed we can do similar conversation with you and explore this together.
Can you tell 2 example of process improvement initiatives where you as a scrum master implemented in the team and how does it benefited to the team What shud a candidate say
The candidate should share some examples from their experience: some possible 1. Change in timings of Daily Scrum , helps more to join 2. Start using Work in Progress Limits, helped reducing the cycle time, more velocity 3. Having Board for Risks and Impediments, and tracking age of impediments , help in focusing on long standing issues resulting in better velocity
To question #5 What will you do if dev team consume more time on their story and left testing team with less time in a sprint? What i think, just to add:- Agile is "iterative" and "incremental" model as learned by Saket sir YT video, so when we talk about testing, the responsibility of testing lies with development team also at least for initial sprints where we start to develop. Hence a basic testing can be done by the developer at starting.
Glad it was helpful! Saket does many trainings apart from PMP, he is the lead trainer for ICP-ACC, ICP-APM, ICP-BAF, SAFe, and many more. In case you need more details, please visit iZenBridge.com
How would one run a fixed budget or fix bid project via scrum where resources are limited, budget is fixed, time frame is decided. I faced a similar challenge where I was handed over a team (with wrong skillsets), team members were not embracing agile , had technical incompetency issues, with no time and money to up skill them, lack of positive attitude but still had to deliver quality and on time..they also felt scrum ceremonies were a over kill while we knew what all had to be delivered by the end so what's the point of estimating and retrospectives. Your perspective please Saket Sir..the client wanted this to be run as a scrum project but the consulting company ( my employer ) didnt care and just wanted it delivered on time and with quality.
Hi, thanks for your efforts, it will really help us to prepare interview for Scrum Master. I have a question regarding estimating story point with help of Poker. How we will or our team will come to know that is correct estimate. Please put some light on this.
Idea of planning poker to get the consensus and discuss the size of a user story by involving cross functional team members. It gives an opportunity to discuss differences of opinion. For more details on estimation please refer following videos: czcams.com/video/1ZArdODBGzk/video.html czcams.com/video/K5EKB7qviGI/video.html
There are sometime question like what type of process improvement you done in your team and what major conflict you faced with Product owner or stakeholders and how you resolve it.Can you answer these two questions with examples.
One of this got discussed yesterday when our trainer did conversation with one more Scrum Master Aspirant , you may want to check the video here czcams.com/video/yy1r0goKfa4/video.html
hello sir, first of all thank you so much for such useful videos. I got one interview question that why we estimate the user story in points rather then hour? and how US pointing is related to hour? COuld you please answer this?
Create an environment of transparency. For technical debt following can help: Facilitate team to come up coding checklist (DOD), if a team is not open for a checklist, then find ways to facilitate the issue in the retrospective. Also, discover why the team is not open; based on that, find out strategies to coach the team. It could be like they have tight deadlines and do not want extra work due to coding guidelines. Then you have to see what is the root cause of those tight deadlines and how you can facilitate to address the issue.
hello sir, Is it mandatory to have the CSM certification to work as scrum master in industry ...Are you providing any course for the same . I have work as scrum team member for 2 yrs and would like change my profile to scrum master from developer . I have 10 yrs of IT exp .
Thank you for watching our video, what we observe is that Certified Scrum Master (CSM) from Scrum Alliance appear in the majority of job requirements as needed education from Scrum Master. Yes we do run CSM classes and now a days they are happening online , you can find more details here : www.izenbridge.com/certified-scrum-master/ or drop us an email at sales@izenbridge.com
Sometime back we had detailed conversation on this topic with one of the participant. czcams.com/video/ON7EFtswGho/video.html There is no one single path to achieve agility. As per our view - identify change agents who play a critical role in transformation. These change agents focus more on identify pain points and plan small steps to make team life easy. Overnight, SM cannot create a self-organizing team, it is a journey. So if the team will see small steps making their life easy they will take part in the transformation. So instead of complete adoption of Scrum, focus more on making life simple and gradually get the Scrum team. You will not get results, if you start following Scrum for sake of following, you need to get an inspired team for the common mission. In case you need further coaching to become a great change agent, you may think doing ICP-ACC, for more details, please refer - www.izenbridge.com/certified-agile-coach-icp-acc/virtual/
Hi Saket. Many scrum master roles demand expertise on estimation, slicing of stories and planning activities. Can you cover interview questions on that. How should we answer if we are not from technical background?
Thanks for the suggestion, we are adding it in the backlog. For the time being, we suggest to refer the following videos: czcams.com/video/K5EKB7qviGI/video.html czcams.com/video/1OoTOqSJFvw/video.html czcams.com/video/HSLkOyI16zg/video.html czcams.com/video/1ZArdODBGzk/video.html czcams.com/video/4J3xOvIlE9E/video.html
Hi thanks for the questions and answers.. well explained.. I have a question.. recently I had an interview in which they asked what is Phycological safety which I couldn't answer.. but could understand that it was agile values and principles.. is there any way to get these kind of tricky questions which we know but with different terms. Are there any other terms like this in Agile
You can release, phycological safety with Scrum Values of Openness, Respect and Courage, it is about creating an environment where team member operate without fear. If you wish we can do similar interaction with you and you can discuss in detail topics like these.
Hi Saket ji , Backlog refinement is not listed as Scrum ceremony, what is the reason ? also when its recommended to have this session and with whom? thanks .
Scrum ceremonies are time-boxed event, and Scrum framework recommends roles and responsibilities for all of these ceremonies. A sprint is a container for all of these ceremonies, and all ceremonies happens as per Scrum recommend time. But, as per the Scrum Guide, backlog refinement is a continuous process. All team members are not needed to attend this meeting. Scrum team decides its frequency and format. Unlike other ceremonies, the product backlog refinement meeting does not require the participation of the whole team. Team members need to do other things also. As long as the same team members don’t miss the meeting each sprint, it is okay to so do this meeting with about half the team plus the product owner and Scrum Master.
There is no one prescribed solution for it. In other words - we cannot recommend "one size fits all." solution for it. It is the team who can suggest the best plan of action based on current time zones, availability of virtual tools, and how the team is working together? If the team is collaborating effectively in terms of their day-to-day work? Team solution would be different. In case the team is yet to get an understanding to work together, the answer would be different. Scrum Master can facilitate the team to brainstorm solutions. One thing is obvious; the team need to agree on some compromises. Now, the team look at reasonable compromises, by which team can live. Like team may choose one person suffering from a long night or early morning rather than ten people to suffer on account of 1. The team may choose to collaborate with daily scrum using virtual tools. These tools can help to communicate how the team is moving towards Sprint Goal. Sprint Planning meeting and Retrospective do not happen daily. So, it may bring good compromises for the team. For a best solution, team also work on working agreements to make their collaboration better. So, in summary, the team explores the best solution, the goal is to make a cohesive team.
Using device to collaboration and communication of different time zone team such video conference and messenger like Business Skype. Second agreed time for daily stand-up. Etc.
It is a clear example of introducing work beyond team capacity. As a Scrum Master, the best strategy to invite the development team and PO to look into it - to understand what can be done? You can facilitate a discussion to help them realize which items can be removed from the current iteration or newly added items are really important? Everything can't be done, so the team and PO have to come with a solution.
Answer to the first question is : constant coaching to the team as a scrum Master on agile values and principles, show casing them the importance and magic of the early feedback, periodic system demos , encouraging the open culture of sharing the impediments and help getting these impediments resolved quickly , team could see huge difference the style of project execution as against waterfall. It took almost 6 to 7 sprints for them to realize the benefits of the scrum and now no look back
6. How to calculate velocity? how to increase it? factors impacting velocity? Give examples from your past experience? how you handled such situations?--- Skate has really 50% screwed up this question. Saket is right when he said first time velocity was calculated using guesstimate or past experience but rest was wrong. No one knows first sprints velocity. First time Development team commit user stories based on guess or past experience, e.g. they commit user stories for velocity - 25 or scrum master knows past performance of team in other project and says team's guess velocity is 25. Then development team goes and enter their efforts in hours against tasks created for stories. Scrum master enters team's capacity. Once development team creates tasks and enters efforts, SM can see how much bandwidth team still has to accept or remove Stories. Average velocity gets calculated after 3rd or 4th sprint. As team gets better with estimate velocity gets better. There are many factor which can help increase velocity e.g. Good product backlog refinement, how many sprints team is ahead of refinement, how well team understands vision of product, how is level of skillset of team, how less is team dependent upon other teams, is team able to self organise etc. Team with very high technology skills delivers product increment soon.
Yes, a experienced Scrum Master should be able to lead minimum two teams effectively. I am Scrum Master and I was leading 3 different teams. It is just proper planning which makes work easy. If scrum master is able to keep sprint planning of two teams on different days then he/she should be able to lead minimum two teams. Mostly in all organisations, Scrum Master leads minimum 2 teams.
@@izenbridge I am sorry could you please advise where it has mentioned that Scrum Master is not recommended to have two scrum teams ? Does Scrum Guide or Scrum.Org or Scrum Alliance say about it ?
@@silvershades1401 It is more about how the development team is mature to build a self-organizing team. Based on team needs, sometimes SM needs to teach Scrum, sometimes he/she needs to mentor to develop new skills, and sometimes he/she needs to enable problem-solving through coaching. Now if your time going mostly then the Development team is comparatively mature to solve problems, in this case, you can manage multiple teams. Yes, your experience matters as well, but its mote about how much team needs you.
@28:07 You said cancel sprint as per Scrum Rules. It is absolutely wrong statement. As per scrum guide, Scrum Master is not liable to cancel Sprint. If Sprint Goal becomes absolutely obsolete then Scrum Master can work with Product Owner to cancel sprint. It is either Product Owner or on discretion of Product Owner sprint can be cancelled. Every sprint cancellation results in budget consumption and sprint cancellation is not good practice. As per Scrum Guide, Sprint cancellations are often traumatic to the Scrum Team, and are very uncommon. Saket is right when he said there is no process. Best way to handle change request is to run by Product Owner first. If Portfolio manager or stakeholder brings change request then ask them to put change request in backlog and prioritised by Product Owner. If Product owner says change request has to be implemented in current sprint, e.g. High priority/severity production issues are falls in this category of change request, then development team has to trade off change request with current sprint backlog items. Development team should share impact analysis of accepting change request. Do they have capacity to accept and implement change request within remaining sprint time. If team is accepting change request say story point-5 then they can push sprint backlog item of same size into product backlog. Scrum Master has to ensure that development team do not over commit or do not get burdened. After discussing with team, scrum master can share consequences of accepting change request with management or in sprint summary report.
Saket you're an angel. Great video! Text books and theory is for the birds when reality hits, it's a whole different ball game. There's nothing like environmental context...
Thanks Susan for your kind words!! Happy to know that you liked video.
Thanks Saket for giving so detail real time examples, scenarios and your videos covers every Scrum interview questions and answers. Loads of thank for all the help you are providing through your channel!
Glad you like them! Thank you for your comment.
Awesome session. Really helpful explanation of each question. Thank you Saket! 🙂
Thanks so much Saket for your nice support answering questions and really hep to viewers.
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you are really doing good job by helping people to better prepare for their interviews
Glad it was helpful! You can explore Saket training programs here - www.izenbridge.com/landing/youtube/Saket-Bansal/
Thanks a lot. I feel lucky to have tumbled down on this video. Truly helpful for interview.
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I am so grateful being landed here.. The way you are explaining is very much neutral and with deep understanding. I find it awesome it is working magically in all my interviews.. Thankyou so much Saket...God bless you with good health happiness wealth...LOVE YOU
Thank you for checking out videos on youtube
Very useful questions. Thank you Saket for insightful and excellent solutions
Always welcome
very good questions and excellently answered by @skaet! your vedios helped a lot for preparation. A BIG THANK YOU SAKET!!!
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Saket sir you are doing a great job, I saw most of your interview videos, it is so realistic and so helpful. Kudos to you! Thanks you so much 🙏
So nice of you
@16:00 I had a Qa who didn't showup to any retros getting him to Retro was harder then cracking the job interview (stories of 2019) good old tech days.
Thank you for sharing, i think now 2024, people are not that much talking about process, rather they are more checking the ability to deliver in interviews.
@izenbridge when do you anticipate the tech market picking up?
Sir thanks for taking the efforts to clear the interview it really proves skills are not only important tact of dealing employees and communication is also important. you are really hitting bulls eye...
Thanks for your kind words!! Keep exploring iZenBridge CZcams Channel.
Interesting questions, brilliant answers 👏
Thank you! 😃
Very very useful content.One question .
How to decide budgeting of any scrum team.Who does that.
Scrum will say "Depends", in general its more a function of how organization is designed rather Scrum, since scrum is execution framework not org strategic decision making framework.
@iZenBridge Consultancy Pvt Ltd what are the ways to assess maturity of teams? How can we coach the team to higher level of maturity? I am really looking forward to your reply. Thanks!
Spotify Health Check may be the good starting point, you can know more about it here: engineering.atspotify.com/2014/09/16/squad-health-check-model/
There are many other models on team assessment , the above one can show the path.
Nice discussion. Very good thought process to know.
Glad you enjoyed it! To know more about Saket Bansal's training programs, please visit - www.izenbridge.com/landing/youtube/Saket-Bansal/
Excellent. Thanks to both of you.
Hi Kiran, happy to know that you liked the video. keep watching.
One of the best I have ever heard!!
Thank you for your kind words.
Great video. You have extraordinary coaching abilities!
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These videos are outstanding,I can totally relate to the answers
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That was really helpfull and he answered it so well and explained each situation in a practical way .. kudos to you saketh 👍
Thank you for watching our videos on Scrum Master, we do run training programs like Certified Scrum Master and Advanced Scrum Master, do check if that can help you in advancing your career. for more information
www.izenbridge.com/scrum/a-csm-advance-scrum-master-virtual/
@@izenbridge thanks for your reply, after a maternity gap I am searching for a job and I have done CSM certifi cation , can you suggest me on which course take up either PSM or ASM
Which will add more value to my profile ? Please suggest
@@shalsrams5133 what i can see in the market is CSM and PSM 1 is considered at same level, so I do not see the requirement of doing PSM 1 after CSM.
Now the question can be what should be done? I see make clarity on your target profile and see what kind of certifications and skills are asked in that target profile. Say if you target scrum master in small teams, you may do Advanced Scrum Master to get more readiness, if you target scrum master in Large teams (50+ people ) or say team of teams, that knowing Scaled Agile with the help of Leading SAFe will be good. If needed we can do similar conversation with you and explore this together.
Thanks for the reply .. yes I would like to know on how can we set up to the discussion ? How do I proceed with that ?
@@shalsrams5133 Process to schedule conversation is simple, just drop us email at saket.bansal@izenbridge.com
This was very helpful. Thanks.Great Discussions
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Can you tell 2 example of process improvement initiatives where you as a scrum master implemented in the team and how does it benefited to the team
What shud a candidate say
The candidate should share some examples from their experience: some possible
1. Change in timings of Daily Scrum , helps more to join
2. Start using Work in Progress Limits, helped reducing the cycle time, more velocity
3. Having Board for Risks and Impediments, and tracking age of impediments , help in focusing on long standing issues resulting in better velocity
Thanks so much,,, you were great
You are welcome Shaziya, keep exploring iZenBridge CZcams channel
To question #5 What will you do if dev team consume more time on their story and left testing team with less time in a sprint?
What i think, just to add:- Agile is "iterative" and "incremental" model as learned by Saket sir YT video, so when we talk about testing, the responsibility of testing lies with development team also at least for initial sprints where we start to develop. Hence a basic testing can be done by the developer at starting.
Yes, true. Thanks for adding. It helps.
I alwaz get an insight and ideas as to how to face an interview.....Thanks Saket.....
Glad it was helpful! Saket does many trainings apart from PMP, he is the lead trainer for ICP-ACC, ICP-APM, ICP-BAF, SAFe, and many more. In case you need more details, please visit iZenBridge.com
Do you have class published on Udemy?
How would one run a fixed budget or fix bid project via scrum where resources are limited, budget is fixed, time frame is decided. I faced a similar challenge where I was handed over a team (with wrong skillsets), team members were not embracing agile , had technical incompetency issues, with no time and money to up skill them, lack of positive attitude but still had to deliver quality and on time..they also felt scrum ceremonies were a over kill while we knew what all had to be delivered by the end so what's the point of estimating and retrospectives. Your perspective please Saket Sir..the client wanted this to be run as a scrum project but the consulting company ( my employer ) didnt care and just wanted it delivered on time and with quality.
If you wish we can schedule similar conversation with you , let us know by dropping email at sales@izenbridge.com
Hi, thanks for your efforts, it will really help us to prepare interview for Scrum Master.
I have a question regarding estimating story point with help of Poker. How we will or our team will come to know that is correct estimate. Please put some light on this.
Idea of planning poker to get the consensus and discuss the size of a user story by involving cross functional team members. It gives an opportunity to discuss differences of opinion.
For more details on estimation please refer following videos:
czcams.com/video/1ZArdODBGzk/video.html
czcams.com/video/K5EKB7qviGI/video.html
There are sometime question like what type of process improvement you done in your team and what major conflict you faced with Product owner or stakeholders and how you resolve it.Can you answer these two questions with examples.
One of this got discussed yesterday when our trainer did conversation with one more Scrum Master Aspirant , you may want to check the video here czcams.com/video/yy1r0goKfa4/video.html
hello sir,
first of all thank you so much for such useful videos.
I got one interview question that why we estimate the user story in points rather then hour? and how US pointing is related to hour? COuld you please answer this?
Here are two videos that you may find useful on this topic.
czcams.com/video/3fjQDN83Pgc/video.html
czcams.com/video/mYMYwuPdJCk/video.html
Nice video and well explained
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Nice one .... Keep posted
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Hi Saket. Can you conduct a similar session for Product Owner interview questions?
Yes, Rishikesh we are planning it and will release soon.
how to address Technical Debts? if the dev team doesn't have openness to share and it is NOT identified during internal code reviews.
Create an environment of transparency. For technical debt following can help:
Facilitate team to come up coding checklist (DOD), if a team is not open for a checklist, then find ways to facilitate the issue in the retrospective.
Also, discover why the team is not open; based on that, find out strategies to coach the team. It could be like they have tight deadlines and do not want extra work due to coding guidelines. Then you have to see what is the root cause of those tight deadlines and how you can facilitate to address the issue.
hello sir, Is it mandatory to have the CSM certification to work as scrum master in industry ...Are you providing any course for the same . I have work as scrum team member for 2 yrs and would like change my profile to scrum master from developer . I have 10 yrs of IT exp .
Thank you for watching our video, what we observe is that Certified Scrum Master (CSM) from Scrum Alliance appear in the majority of job requirements as needed education from Scrum Master. Yes we do run CSM classes and now a days they are happening online , you can find more details here : www.izenbridge.com/certified-scrum-master/
or drop us an email at sales@izenbridge.com
Sir Pls let me know Whats your approach towards transition of Waterfall to Agile (Scrum )
Sometime back we had detailed conversation on this topic with one of the participant. czcams.com/video/ON7EFtswGho/video.html
There is no one single path to achieve agility. As per our view - identify change agents who play a critical role in transformation. These change agents focus more on identify pain points and plan small steps to make team life easy. Overnight, SM cannot create a self-organizing team, it is a journey. So if the team will see small steps making their life easy they will take part in the transformation. So instead of complete adoption of Scrum, focus more on making life simple and gradually get the Scrum team. You will not get results, if you start following Scrum for sake of following, you need to get an inspired team for the common mission. In case you need further coaching to become a great change agent, you may think doing ICP-ACC, for more details, please refer - www.izenbridge.com/certified-agile-coach-icp-acc/virtual/
Nice video, Thank you sir
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Hi Saket. Many scrum master roles demand expertise on estimation, slicing of stories and planning activities. Can you cover interview questions on that. How should we answer if we are not from technical background?
Thanks for the suggestion, we are adding it in the backlog. For the time being, we suggest to refer the following videos:
czcams.com/video/K5EKB7qviGI/video.html
czcams.com/video/1OoTOqSJFvw/video.html
czcams.com/video/HSLkOyI16zg/video.html
czcams.com/video/1ZArdODBGzk/video.html
czcams.com/video/4J3xOvIlE9E/video.html
Very nice
Thanks Roylen for your kind words!!
Hi thanks for the questions and answers.. well explained..
I have a question.. recently I had an interview in which they asked what is Phycological safety which I couldn't answer.. but could understand that it was agile values and principles..
is there any way to get these kind of tricky questions which we know but with different terms.
Are there any other terms like this in Agile
You can release, phycological safety with Scrum Values of Openness, Respect and Courage, it is about creating an environment where team member operate without fear. If you wish we can do similar interaction with you and you can discuss in detail topics like these.
This is so helpful
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Hi Saket ji , Backlog refinement is not listed as Scrum ceremony, what is the reason ? also when its recommended to have this session and with whom? thanks .
Scrum ceremonies are time-boxed event, and Scrum framework recommends roles and responsibilities for all of these ceremonies.
A sprint is a container for all of these ceremonies, and all ceremonies happens as per Scrum recommend time.
But, as per the Scrum Guide, backlog refinement is a continuous process. All team members are not needed to attend this meeting. Scrum team decides its frequency and format.
Unlike other ceremonies, the product backlog refinement meeting does not require the participation of the whole team. Team members need to do other things also.
As long as the same team members don’t miss the meeting each sprint, it is okay to so do this meeting with about half the team plus the product owner and Scrum Master.
What should be the approach when multiple teams from multiple time zones are working on the same project ?
There is no one prescribed solution for it. In other words - we cannot recommend "one size fits all." solution for it. It is the team who can suggest the best plan of action based on current time zones, availability of virtual tools, and how the team is working together?
If the team is collaborating effectively in terms of their day-to-day work? Team solution would be different. In case the team is yet to get an understanding to work together, the answer would be different.
Scrum Master can facilitate the team to brainstorm solutions. One thing is obvious; the team need to agree on some compromises. Now, the team look at reasonable compromises, by which team can live. Like team may choose one person suffering from a long night or early morning rather than ten people to suffer on account of 1.
The team may choose to collaborate with daily scrum using virtual tools. These tools can help to communicate how the team is moving towards Sprint Goal.
Sprint Planning meeting and Retrospective do not happen daily. So, it may bring good compromises for the team.
For a best solution, team also work on working agreements to make their collaboration better.
So, in summary, the team explores the best solution, the goal is to make a cohesive team.
@@izenbridge Thank you.
@@subhadeepbabai You are welcome.
Using device to collaboration and communication of different time zone team such video conference and messenger like Business Skype.
Second agreed time for daily stand-up. Etc.
Team Velocity is 25 of 6 team members and Product owner added 4 High priority story having velocity 36, as a scrum master what will you do ?
It is a clear example of introducing work beyond team capacity. As a Scrum Master, the best strategy to invite the development team and PO to look into it - to understand what can be done? You can facilitate a discussion to help them realize which items can be removed from the current iteration or newly added items are really important? Everything can't be done, so the team and PO have to come with a solution.
@@izenbridge Thanks
Is there any other video like this by Saket Bansal.
Yes, please refer following link: czcams.com/video/rGAIhkZobro/video.html
Answer to the first question is : constant coaching to the team as a scrum
Master on agile values and principles, show casing them the importance and magic of the early feedback, periodic system demos , encouraging the open culture of sharing the impediments and help getting these impediments resolved quickly , team could see huge difference the style of project execution as against waterfall. It took almost 6 to 7 sprints for them to realize the benefits of the scrum and now no look back
Thanks Prithvi for sharing your observation.
6. How to calculate velocity? how to increase it? factors impacting velocity? Give examples from your past experience? how you handled such situations?--- Skate has really 50% screwed up this question. Saket is right when he said first time velocity was calculated using guesstimate or past experience but rest was wrong.
No one knows first sprints velocity. First time Development team commit user stories based on guess or past experience, e.g. they commit user stories for velocity - 25 or scrum master knows past performance of team in other project and says team's guess velocity is 25. Then development team goes and enter their efforts in hours against tasks created for stories. Scrum master enters team's capacity. Once development team creates tasks and enters efforts, SM can see how much bandwidth team still has to accept or remove Stories.
Average velocity gets calculated after 3rd or 4th sprint.
As team gets better with estimate velocity gets better. There are many factor which can help increase velocity e.g. Good product backlog refinement, how many sprints team is ahead of refinement, how well team understands vision of product, how is level of skillset of team, how less is team dependent upon other teams, is team able to self organise etc. Team with very high technology skills delivers product increment soon.
Thanks for sharing wonderful insight!!
Can two or more teams have the same Scrum Master? Meaning can one person act as the Scrum Master for more than one team?
Yes, in many organizations it happens. If teams are comparatively mature, then it is accepted else it is not recommended.
Yes, a experienced Scrum Master should be able to lead minimum two teams effectively. I am Scrum Master and I was leading 3 different teams. It is just proper planning which makes work easy. If scrum master is able to keep sprint planning of two teams on different days then he/she should be able to lead minimum two teams. Mostly in all organisations, Scrum Master leads minimum 2 teams.
@@izenbridge I am sorry could you please advise where it has mentioned that Scrum Master is not recommended to have two scrum teams ? Does Scrum Guide or Scrum.Org or Scrum Alliance say about it ?
@@silvershades1401 Thanks!
@@silvershades1401 It is more about how the development team is mature to build a self-organizing team. Based on team needs, sometimes SM needs to teach Scrum, sometimes he/she needs to mentor to develop new skills, and sometimes he/she needs to enable problem-solving through coaching. Now if your time going mostly then the Development team is comparatively mature to solve problems, in this case, you can manage multiple teams. Yes, your experience matters as well, but its mote about how much team needs you.
@28:07 You said cancel sprint as per Scrum Rules. It is absolutely wrong statement. As per scrum guide, Scrum Master is not liable to cancel Sprint. If Sprint Goal becomes absolutely obsolete then Scrum Master can work with Product Owner to cancel sprint. It is either Product Owner or on discretion of Product Owner sprint can be cancelled. Every sprint cancellation results in budget consumption and sprint cancellation is not good practice. As per Scrum Guide, Sprint cancellations are often traumatic to the Scrum Team, and are very uncommon.
Saket is right when he said there is no process. Best way to handle change request is to run by Product Owner first. If Portfolio manager or stakeholder brings change request then ask them to put change request in backlog and prioritised by Product Owner. If Product owner says change request has to be implemented in current sprint, e.g. High priority/severity production issues are falls in this category of change request, then development team has to trade off change request with current sprint backlog items. Development team should share impact analysis of accepting change request. Do they have capacity to accept and implement change request within remaining sprint time.
If team is accepting change request say story point-5 then they can push sprint backlog item of same size into product backlog. Scrum Master has to ensure that development team do not over commit or do not get burdened. After discussing with team, scrum master can share consequences of accepting change request with management or in sprint summary report.
Thanks for sharing your experiences and insights!!