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One scrum Team multiple project

Last post 11:02 am March 14, 2017 by Sanjay Saini
3 replies
01:13 pm March 11, 2017

Stakeholder wants that Scrum team need to work on multiple products at the same time. The reason behind this is that they are not able to provide enough requirement for one product. So they want scrum team to work parallelly on multiple product.

I think due to task/product switch, overall productivity will decrease.

My question is that how can we see this in Scrum context. What does Scrum master do in this case?

 

Thanks

 

 

 


03:36 pm March 11, 2017

A Scrum Team will only work on one product at a time. They may be able to alternate between products in different Sprints, if they are willing to do so and sufficient value can be delivered to the respective Product Owners.

The support of multiple product or service streams in parallel is more typical of a Kanban way of working, where the risk to each stream is low, work is non-complex, and multi-tasking will not compromise quality.


10:24 am March 13, 2017

Hi Rajan Srivastava,

IMO you should focus on finishing one product before you start with another. If possible, you should try to help stakeholders and the PO to provide the necessary requirements. For this reason, I would like to know if there's any requirement of detail in the requirements for the team to work on them? Or any other requirement or problem that causes the level of requirements to be insufficient.

Regards.


11:02 am March 14, 2017

 

Take a step back and think about why do you/organization wants to adopt Scrum for this situation. As Ian said Kanban may be a better choice.

 

BTW how about breaking up the teams so that each dedicated small team for each product?


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