An Abundance of Opportunity with Chris Li

A student wrote in asking about how to deal with: 

• PO can’t or won’t prioritize the backlog

• Team members are always taking on special side projects in the company

• The team is 35 people spread across several time zones - both on and off-shore

• Everyone is working on new products and also supporting up to 30 applications

• Everyone is expected to be at 100% utilization at all times.

• The Sprints are 4-5 weeks long (the size varies depending on the work to be done)

• One hour is allocated for Sprint Planning

This is a lot to address here so I asked my good friend (and fellow CST) Chris Li to join me to talk through these challenges.

 The video version of the interview can be found here: https://bit.ly/3SgK2jL

An audio version of the podcast can be found here: https://bit.ly/3xwfWkg