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How do you formulate sprint goals when you are working on 3-4 different products?
The short answer is "you don't" The basic principle of out-of-the-box Scrum is that the team works on a single product. That's largely about focus and context switching. Check out Gloria Mark's work (for example) on the impact of working on 2+ projects at the same time, but a rough summary is that (Read more
The short answer is “you don’t”
The basic principle of out-of-the-box Scrum is that the team works on a single product. That’s largely about focus and context switching.
Check out Gloria Mark’s work (for example) on the impact of working on 2+ projects at the same time, but a rough summary is that (a) it will add 20-40% overhead to both projects and (b) it will increase employee stress.
Increased stress isn’t just a fluffy bunny thing; stressed people communicate less well and make more errors, before they burn out and quit.
Still – if that’s your reality, my suggestion would be not to use Scrum, and focus on the Kanban Method instead. You won’t need to worry about Sprint Goals (or indeed when you have enough data estimation) and you will be able to actively track the cycle time (and hence customer facing performance) for each customer.
If you limit Work-in-progress effectively you might also be able to do something about that context switching….
See lessWhat are some great ways to convince a team to swarm on stories instead of working on single tickets per member?
Maybe take two steps back. - why do you need to "convince" your team of anything? - what is the problem that you, as a team, are trying to solve? At a point, you are part of a team; you might have some specialist knowledge and specific accountabilities, but you are not the boss. Servant leadership dRead more
Maybe take two steps back.
– why do you need to “convince” your team of anything?
– what is the problem that you, as a team, are trying to solve?
At a point, you are part of a team; you might have some specialist knowledge and specific accountabilities, but you are not the boss. Servant leadership doesn’t mean trying to force your team in a given direction.
Scrum, Kanban and Lean ways of working are empirical. We are data-driven, not opinion based. In fact we want to shift the whole organisation away from the “highest-paid-person’s opinion” (HIPPO) model and towards an environment where people are curious, open, and want to experiment.
And that starts with us. Exhibit the behaviors we want to see in others, is my counsel.
You have a solution “the team should swarm on tickets”, and yet what we are trying to move towards is the business bringing the team problems to solve, not solutions to be implemented.
Rather than convince the team of any given agile practice or process, I would suggest
– surface issue ideally in a data-driven way with your team in the retrospective
– work with the team to evolve a problem statement
– take that problem statement into an Ishikawa fishbone analysis with the team
– get to a revised problem statement from what they think is the biggest root cause
– brain-storm solutions together, which is where you can add your opinion
– determine what solution you want to try, as a team
– develop a hypothesis – what you will measure to determine success or failure
– do the experiment
– if the original problem still exists or resurfaces, redo the Ishikawa analysis
In doing this you give the team agency and autonomy, teach them problem solving techniques and have an opportunity to bring your knowledge to bare as part of the solution, without acting to control or steer them too much.
Giving a team solutions all the time, or forcing them in a direction you believe to be correct creates a dependency on you. That’s robbing them of an opportunity to grow..
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