Comments on: How Agile Are You? (The Survey!) http://agile101.net/2009/08/01/how-agile-are-you/ Agile Project Management, Programme Management and Digital Publishing Sat, 17 Sep 2011 20:53:37 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Dan Loomis http://agile101.net/2009/08/01/how-agile-are-you/comment-page-1/#comment-83 Dan Loomis Fri, 07 Aug 2009 17:15:49 +0000 http://agile101.net/?p=543#comment-83 Makes perfect sense. I run our sprint planning as you've indicated in your blog. In some resources that I've read about Agile it talks about incorporating your customer into your sprints. That might just be a misunderstanding of "customer" on my end. The backlog is sufficient in our case. Thanks for helping. Makes perfect sense. I run our sprint planning as you’ve indicated in your blog. In some resources that I’ve read about Agile it talks about incorporating your customer into your sprints. That might just be a misunderstanding of “customer” on my end. The backlog is sufficient in our case. Thanks for helping.

]]> By: Dan Loomis http://agile101.net/2009/08/01/how-agile-are-you/comment-page-1/#comment-76 Dan Loomis Thu, 06 Aug 2009 18:36:36 +0000 http://agile101.net/?p=543#comment-76 Thanks for sharing the Agile survey in excel. Shouldn't one of the questions that determines "Agileness" be whether your customer is involved in sprint planning? Thanks for sharing the Agile survey in excel. Shouldn’t one of the questions that determines “Agileness” be whether your customer is involved in sprint planning?

]]> By: taraleewhitaker http://agile101.net/2009/08/01/how-agile-are-you/comment-page-1/#comment-77 taraleewhitaker Thu, 06 Aug 2009 12:33:45 +0000 http://agile101.net/?p=543#comment-77 Hi Dan - You're welcome! I'm not sure I agree that it is essential (or viable in a lot of cases) to have a customer involved in sprint planning. That is if by 'customer' you mean the end user of the product e.g. a visitor to a website if your website is your product. The only people required to attend a sprint planning meeting are the Product Manager, a Product Owner(s) if possible/appropriate (e.g. you're discussing multiple products within the session and the Product Manager is less familiar with certain aspects) and the Scrum Team. In some situations, the Product Manager may even leave after presenting the backlog and agreeing the Sprint Objectives - at this point it's up to the Scrum Team to figure out the specifics of their Sprint delivery strategy. I've written a blog post about how to <a href="http://agile101.net/2009/07/24/scrum-sprint-planning-meetings-who-what-when-where-why/" rel="nofollow">run a Sprint Planning session </a>- check it out and let me know if you do things differently. Hope that makes sense, Tara Hi Dan – You’re welcome!

I’m not sure I agree that it is essential (or viable in a lot of cases) to have a customer involved in sprint planning. That is if by ‘customer’ you mean the end user of the product e.g. a visitor to a website if your website is your product.

The only people required to attend a sprint planning meeting are the Product Manager, a Product Owner(s) if possible/appropriate (e.g. you’re discussing multiple products within the session and the Product Manager is less familiar with certain aspects) and the Scrum Team. In some situations, the Product Manager may even leave after presenting the backlog and agreeing the Sprint Objectives – at this point it’s up to the Scrum Team to figure out the specifics of their Sprint delivery strategy.

I’ve written a blog post about how to run a Sprint Planning session - check it out and let me know if you do things differently.

Hope that makes sense,

Tara

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