Thanks for your videos Saketh. They helped me a lot to formulate my answers in the interviews. Can you help me answer a few questions that I felt the interviewer is not satisfied with my answers? As a Scrum Master: If a sprint item is blocked because of external factors or because someone else(outside your Scrum Team) isn't ready with what your dev team member needs to work on, how will you represent that on the board and in reports? You need to indicate that it is not your team's fault. Something else beyond your control broke and your team should not be blamed for that.. As a Project Manager: How will you present the status of the projects and modules that you are working on, to the higher leadership? They will not look into the details and graphs which your scrum team works with, like backlogs, velocity, burndown, etc, nor Project management reports like EVMs, Gannt charts, etc. Leadership will not attend demo meetings; they just need status updates and are not interested in these regular graphics.
Here are some views and we can do conversation like the above also. 1. External Dependencies are going to be regular issues specially when you work in complex environment. First the team needs to identify them, second they create buy in from the provider team to take care of dependencies, third you track them as per agreement. also you can show as Blocked Item (May be by adding red sticky to it if on board ) and have clear reference of what is blocked. 2. On PM space, it is all about setting up the communication plan, we need to understand stakeholder needs and come with what is good enough for them, so you ask what format will be good enough, you may propose some , like milestone review or say burndown chart and ask how can we present information to them
I just cracked up when she said she did not know what gives you pleasure if the interviewer was asking her personally or professionally. Poor lady. God bless her.
By creating transparency in the system, by making people challenge each other or by challenging them and later on regular transparency of how things are going on.
I joined a new project and the team is assigning SP values in this way. They take Dev estimates separately (say 5) and QA estimates separately (say 3). Now, they assign the story with 8 SP value. Similarly with other stories too, and thus come up with good number of velocity every sprint. Does it seem fine? How can it be corrected without impacting the velocity? Please help.
my view the correction will impact velocity. The risk as you can also see here is we are strengthening the functional boundaries between QA and Dev. you may ask can QA achieve 3 points of work if dev has not done their 5 and reverse is also true so, i hope the work only gets done when both of them do it. The idea is we compare based on overall size.
Hello Saket, I need one on one guidance do you help?? I have been following your blog and videos which helped a lot to learn, however, I'm not confident enough to start the work. As I feel there are still gaps
One of the thing we are doing is creating community to interact and learn from professionals, its at www.oguild.com, it has multiple guilds (groups) and in agile group we aspire to have more discussions on agile related roles and topics. you may want to check.
In my view it depend on organization you work in, in general Scrum Master can facilitate the requirement discussions so all stakeholders remains creative during the process. So facilitation and coordination of the process.
We are doing one event this weekend on similar line where we are discussing how to grow with certifications , you may wan to join www.oguild.com/events/Agile/GettingaheadwithCertifications-1f9Sn5o7sk8isv9JMzDd3rKxLek
Hi Saket, I am preparing for PMP for couple of month, now i have started taking practice test. I have tried different practice test from different resources like simplearn, TIA, Tridib (Udemy), Ray (Udemy) etc. Now i am scoring avg 75%-80%, is it enough for real exam? I am planning to take test next week
I am not sure about the quality of tests but in general, if the test covers PMI's Exam Content Outline topics (you can cross check yourself by reading PMI ECO) than i think you are good to go for final exam.
Hi Saket, can you pls advise me, I am mca and have 8 yr exp in requirement analysis,reporting ,client management and worked on sql,tableau.. I was in career break and now want to upgrade myself to get job..which certification or course will be good for me.
Hi, I see you can focus on Business Analysis as well as on team leadership kind of jobs say Scrum Master, doing CSM is good idea to start with if not done already. tomorrow we also have session on similar topic , see if you wish to attend. oguild.com/events/Agile/GettingaheadwithCertifications-1f9Sn5o7sk8isv9JMzDd3rKxLek
Thank you
Thanks for your videos Saketh. They helped me a lot to formulate my answers in the interviews.
Can you help me answer a few questions that I felt the interviewer is not satisfied with my answers?
As a Scrum Master: If a sprint item is blocked because of external factors or because someone else(outside your Scrum Team) isn't ready with what your dev team member needs to work on, how will you represent that on the board and in reports?
You need to indicate that it is not your team's fault. Something else beyond your control broke and your team should not be blamed for that..
As a Project Manager: How will you present the status of the projects and modules that you are working on, to the higher leadership?
They will not look into the details and graphs which your scrum team works with, like backlogs, velocity, burndown, etc, nor Project management reports like EVMs, Gannt charts, etc. Leadership will not attend demo meetings; they just need status updates and are not interested in these regular graphics.
Here are some views and we can do conversation like the above also.
1. External Dependencies are going to be regular issues specially when you work in complex environment. First the team needs to identify them, second they create buy in from the provider team to take care of dependencies, third you track them as per agreement. also you can show as Blocked Item (May be by adding red sticky to it if on board ) and have clear reference of what is blocked.
2. On PM space, it is all about setting up the communication plan, we need to understand stakeholder needs and come with what is good enough for them, so you ask what format will be good enough, you may propose some , like milestone review or say burndown chart and ask how can we present information to them
I just cracked up when she said she did not know what gives you pleasure if the interviewer was asking her personally or professionally. Poor lady. God bless her.
Why do we use Fibonacci series for estimation and not any other value?
You can use any non-liner scale, usually Fibonacci works well , the idea is when the size gets bigger that gap between two sizes starts increasing.
Hi Saket, Could you please help us how Scrum master knows the resources are tellong estimation are correct as he does not know the technilogy ?
By creating transparency in the system, by making people challenge each other or by challenging them and later on regular transparency of how things are going on.
I joined a new project and the team is assigning SP values in this way. They take Dev estimates separately (say 5) and QA estimates separately (say 3). Now, they assign the story with 8 SP value. Similarly with other stories too, and thus come up with good number of velocity every sprint. Does it seem fine? How can it be corrected without impacting the velocity? Please help.
my view the correction will impact velocity. The risk as you can also see here is we are strengthening the functional boundaries between QA and Dev. you may ask can QA achieve 3 points of work if dev has not done their 5 and reverse is also true so, i hope the work only gets done when both of them do it. The idea is we compare based on overall size.
Hello Saket, I need one on one guidance do you help?? I have been following your blog and videos which helped a lot to learn, however, I'm not confident enough to start the work. As I feel there are still gaps
One of the thing we are doing is creating community to interact and learn from professionals, its at www.oguild.com, it has multiple guilds (groups) and in agile group we aspire to have more discussions on agile related roles and topics. you may want to check.
Hi can u help me what's scrum master role during requirement review process by stakeholder.
In my view it depend on organization you work in, in general Scrum Master can facilitate the requirement discussions so all stakeholders remains creative during the process. So facilitation and coordination of the process.
I am a lead tester and want to go ahead for SM role ..what steps should i take to get prepared and get offer in same
We are doing one event this weekend on similar line where we are discussing how to grow with certifications ,
you may wan to join www.oguild.com/events/Agile/GettingaheadwithCertifications-1f9Sn5o7sk8isv9JMzDd3rKxLek
Hi , can you please help me with best online certification for CSM
We do run Live Online Session for CSM and I am confident we will do good service, please find details here:
www.izenbridge.com/certified-scrum-master/
Hi Saket,
I am preparing for PMP for couple of month, now i have started taking practice test.
I have tried different practice test from different resources like simplearn, TIA, Tridib (Udemy), Ray (Udemy) etc. Now i am scoring avg 75%-80%, is it enough for real exam?
I am planning to take test next week
I am not sure about the quality of tests but in general, if the test covers PMI's Exam Content Outline topics (you can cross check yourself by reading PMI ECO) than i think you are good to go for final exam.
@@izenbridge thanks saket, for your valuable advice.
@@izenbridge hey saket, i cleared my pmp exam with all AT. I want to thank u for ur videos.
@@yogeshpatel-fb8hn Congratulations !!!!! Happy to know about your PMP Exam Success
@@izenbridge tha ks
Hi Saket, can you pls advise me, I am mca and have 8 yr exp in requirement analysis,reporting ,client management and worked on sql,tableau.. I was in career break and now want to upgrade myself to get job..which certification or course will be good for me.
Hi, I see you can focus on Business Analysis as well as on team leadership kind of jobs say Scrum Master, doing CSM is good idea to start with if not done already. tomorrow we also have session on similar topic , see if you wish to attend.
oguild.com/events/Agile/GettingaheadwithCertifications-1f9Sn5o7sk8isv9JMzDd3rKxLek
@@izenbridge ok..will attend.thanks!!