Radha Israni's Page

"Well then you can choose your priority! Do you want(as a contractor) to get your time sheets signed in time and a referenceable customer or do you want to loose focus from the project/SCRUM and get embroiled in massive change management issues…"

"you will look silly at the end of sprint when product owner/users find out that you had estimated finishing x points(and hence y features) but you could only manage x-1 if you sit in a corner with a bunch of developers creating an in-house web…"

"1) For the remaining tasks within the current Sprint - have a mid sprint meeting and re-assign story points to the remaining tasks- this will likely cause you to miss out on certain tasks but at least you will have better and more accurate reporting…"

"Dont you have enough problems of your own? Why would you want to take on the role of the BA? I tried to do this once - here is what happened - because I could not spend much time with the users(and still do my duties as a SCRUM Master) I started to…"

"I can totally understand your dilemma when you say you are trying to do what you with the Fed! In general I have had terrible experiences implementing SCRUM in public sector projects(in my past life as a consultant-I now work for an in-house…"

"It all depends upon how much clout you have? From the looks of the background information you have provided I presume you have some authority in terms of process adoption? Given that the client wants the 'what' but have you got any say in…"

"Yeah right, so according to our friend iija , in a commercial environment your client will pay for a team to learn at his/her cost? Just wondering iija, have you ever actually delivered a commercial project as a SCRUM Master or you are more of a…"