Thanks for your suggestions. I am aware of your concerns and my comments are in-line
On Jan 12, 6:49 pm, Felix Schwarz <[email protected]> wrote: > Am 12.01.2010 21:50, schrieb elpollolp: > > > I'm evaluating the tool and I'd like to know if it's possible to add > > several teams to a sprint. > > > We have several teams working in different parts of the product (i.e > > components) and we analyze the velocity and capacity for each one. > > > Due to the release cycle is the same for the all teams (i.e. the > > sprints have the same start and end dates) we want to assign the all > > teams to the same sprint, but we could not do this. > > Actually I see multiple problems in your approach from a Scrum point of > view: > 1. A sprint is defined by Scrum as one team committing to a software > increment during a fixed amount of time. There is no such thing as > multi-team commitment. So every team runs its own sprint. The > alternative approach is to have just one team. I agree with this but we're adapting to the context of the particular project, in which there are teams for different companies among other things. > 2. Having component-oriented Scrum teams causes a lot of headaches for > most companies - you have to handle dependencies, it's hard to write > sensible user stories and you have to implement some kind of > waterfall-like approach to tackle integration. yes we're taking a risk in the integration activities. > I'm happy to elaborate this a bit (time permitting) but I don't want to > play the 'religous' one about these issues. > > The way to use a multi-team setup in Agilo is to create multiple sprints > with the same start/end dates and assign a team to each of these sprints. thanks a lot. This is the approach we are taking. > fs > > smime.p7s > 4KViewDownload
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