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Wrong sprint burndown?

Just wanted to share with you all this sprint burndown chart:

Sprint burndown chart

Sprint burndown chart (click to enlarge)


How do you feel about it?
How do you think the team felt about it?
Do you think this was a good or a bad sprint?

Say what you think in the comments, I’ll update this post one week later with real answers :-)

Kanosurvey.com

I launched http://kanosurvey.com a small project for the Agile community. If you use kano model for prioritizing your features, this site would be helpful. You can set up a survey and get your users/customers answer it in order to find out more about your features.

Fitting UX people into scrum team

Sergey Dmitriev talkingYesterday, I’ve been participating in a Debate about agile and usability.

Three Scrum Masters (I was one of them) and three UX people was sitting at the same table. Everyone of us should come with one suggestion about how to fit UX people into the scrum teams better.

Here is what’s been said.

Scrum Masters:
* Geir Amsjø: Use Feature Times (and sprint 0)
* Sergey Dmitriev: UX people can swallow their pride and contribute to the backlog
* Johannes Brodwall: UX people should become more versatile, so that they can contribute more

UX people:
* Jon Gunnar Wold: Developers should know their responsibilities
* Fredrik Matheson: Product Owner should be a pro
* Anders Fagerhus: UX people should stay one sprint ahead of developers

We had a really great talk and I want to thank all the participants. I also enjoyed talking to the audience in the free minutes: Miguel Calix (nice chat about combining PO and SM roles) and Marit Søholt Stokes about the importance of making the contracts better by having a paragraph or two about the customer responsibilities as a Product Owner (I really wanted to do a followup on this one).