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Welcome to another installment of Ask an Agile Coach. Today’s question centers around how to structure teams in light of constrained skill sets in an organization: What technical roles, other than QA, can be successfully shared across scrum teams? DBA, UX, etc.? – @jakejgordon Strive… Read More »Ask an Agile Coach: What Team Members can be shared across multiple Scrum teams?

Hello readers, apologies for the lack of posts lately; lots of work at hand. Today’s Ask an Agile Coach question comes from a comment on the last installment, which is rephrased here. In one form or another, I have gotten this question for years now:… Read More »Ask an Agile Coach: Should I count partially complete user stories in my velocity?

Our previous installment of Ask an Agile Coach had a new question in the comments: As for the case when some of the user stories didn’t get completed, what happens to the user stories which were partially completed–say, 80% finished–but didn’t quite make it? How… Read More »Ask an Agile Coach: How do I handle the effect of carryover on velocity?

Today’s Ask an Agile Coach submission comes from Jake Gordon via Twitter: Anyone (@barryhawkins)  have any good articles on reaching the end of an iteration with only partially completed user stories? #agile What do you do with a sprint that ends with only incomplete stories?… Read More »Ask an Agile Coach: What do I do with a sprint that ends with only incomplete stories?

I never have a shortage of people with questions about applying Agile in the myriad possible scenarios of software development for business. This ongoing series focuses on answers to those questions. If you would like your question to be anonymous, please let me know when submitting.… Read More »Ask an Agile Coach