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Your First Sprint / Iteration

You are just starting with you first Scrum / agile team. Perhaps it is the pilot team for an organization. Your consultant / trainer is gone, or perhaps you didn't have one. Irrespective, this is a collection of information focussed on helping you through to success on that first critical Sprint.

"Learning Agile: Understanding Scrum, XP, Lean, and Kanban" - Andrew Stellman, Jennifer Greene	Hans Samios
Data on the Effect of Teams
Do we put Story Point estimates on a Spike (Enabler) Story?	Hans Samios
How can the PO is to be the focal point for contact for work when an Project Managers (for example) are used to going to individual team members for status of work?	Hans Samios
How Do We Deal With Constant Interruptions?	Hans Samios
How Do We Ensure Critical Work Does Not Get Dropped as We Kick Off Teams?	Hans Samios
How Do We Get All the Work Addressed When Our Specialists Cannot Be Everywhere?
How Do We Get All the Work Addressed When Our Specialists Cannot Be Everywhere?	Hans Peter Samios
How Do We Get More Training on User Stories?	Hans Samios
How Do We Initially Setup Our Definition of Done?	Hans Samios
How Do We Run Our First Daily Scrum or Daily Standup?	Hans Samios
How Do We Run Our First Iteration (Sprint) Planning Event?	Hans Peter Samios
How Do We Run Our First Iteration (Sprint) Retrospective?	Hans Peter Samios
How Do We Run Our First Iteration Demo (Sprint Review)?
How Do We Talk About Iteration (Sprint) Commitments That Have Not Been Met / Done?	Hans Peter Samios
How Do We Use Points to Estimate? - SSA	Hans Samios
How Do We Write User Stories When We Cannot Get All Development and Testing Done in One Sprint?	Hans Samios
How Does a Team Initially Get Control of Work?
How is Work Assigned During an Iteration (Sprint)?	Hans Peter Samios
How Should We Initially Track Multiple Team's Progress?	Hans Samios
How Should We Initially Track Release Progress?	Hans Peter Samios
How Should We Initially Track Sprint Progress?	Hans Peter Samios
How to Preempt Team Conflict?	Hans Peter Samios
Values and Principles	Hans Samios
What Alternatives to the Creation of Product Owner and Scrum Master Roles Could We Try?	Hans Samios
What Are The Roles in an Agile (Scrum) Team?	Hans Peter Samios
What Content Should Be Considered To Start a Team Page?	Hans Peter Samios
What Do We Do If We Don’t Have Budget for Product Owners and Scrum Masters? - SSA	Hans Samios
What do we do with Stories that are not "Done" at the end of an Iteration?	Hans Samios
What Do We Need to Have in Place Prior to "Starting a Scrum / Agile Team" Training?	Hans Peter Samios
What Do You Mean When You Say ...?	Hans Samios
What Does It Mean To Be Done?	Hans Peter Samios
What Events Should We Put in Place For Iterations (Sprints)?	Hans Samios
What Happens When We Do These Roles Well?	Hans Samios
What Happens When We Have Partial Assignments for Product Owners and Scrum Masters?	Hans Samios
What is a User Story? - SSA	Hans Samios
What is the Purpose of a Daily Standup (Daily Scrum) Event?	Hans Samios
What is the Purpose of Iteration (Sprint) Goals?	Hans Samios
What Is Typically Captured as a "Ready" User Story on the Story Card?	Hans Samios
What Kind of Questions Should We Ask to Understand How Our Team is Doing?	Hans Peter Samios
What Kind of Working Agreements Should We Set Up for the Team?	Hans Peter Samios
What Should Our Iteration Goals (Sprint Goals) Look Like?	Hans Peter Samios
What Should We Consider When Forming a New Team?	Hans Peter Samios
Why Do We Establish a Cadence of Events?	Hans Samios
Why Do We Form Teams When We Transition To Agile?	Hans Samios
Why Do We Have the Product Owner and Scrum Master Roles?	Hans Samios
Why Do We Start and End Iterations (Sprints) Mid-week?	Hans Samios
Why Don't We Burn-down Stories Instead of Hours for a Sprint?	Hans Peter Samios
Why Don’t We Use Written English to Communicate Requirements?	Hans Samios