Questions tagged [agile]
Agile software development is a group of software development methodologies based on iterative and incremental development, where requirements and solutions evolve through collaboration between self-organizing, cross-functional teams.
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What are the suggested architectures and design patterns to be followed for constantly evolving Product Application? [closed]
Nowadays I am designing a new Application which is a school management system, which will have both web and android interfaces. I want to give this software application as a service. Though, we have ...
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Is there any type of development platforms for systems which have both electronic and mechanical components together with software components?
I am starting to work in a company. In this company, we have a set of products. These products are inherently related and have many shared functionalities and parts. Each of our products consists of a ...
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How to structure the project documentation?
I just started our bachelor thesis, and want to ask you how to make a proper documentation.
There are two pieces of software in our project's scope: a microcontroller software (node), and a server ...
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Do we need project managers in the agile organisation when doing software development or are the project governance replaced by product governance? [duplicate]
Q: Do we need project managers in the agile organisation when doing software development or are the project governance replaced by product governance?
There are several questions asked and answered ...
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What is a typical guild size?
Where I work we follow a scaled agile process based on scrum which we've changed to suit our culture and needs.
One thing I feel we are missing are guilds to allow the free flow of information between ...
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Third and fourth items of the Manifesto for Agile Software Development
The third and fourth items of the Manifesto for Agile Software Development
Customer collaboration over contract negotiation
Responding to change over following a plan
What's the difference ...
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Making software defect correction “fun” [closed]
Where I work we occasionally come across really challenging defects, which require a great deal of technical expertise, skill and patience to resolve. Getting our most talented engineers to work on ...
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Should I be attaching diagrams, wire frames and other design artifacts to User Stories in an agile approach?
I'm just starting to put software design principles and agile into practice.
I'm taking baby steps and so far I've started implementing the following for my software projects...
A github project ...
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How to determine the cost of a story point?
How can I determine the monetary cost of a user story point in a given team?
I was asked this question recently since the business is interested in determining how much a given project could cost ...
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Multiple roles in user stories
This seems to be a common problem and, after reading these 2 questions
What is best pratice for user stories containing two roles
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User stories with multiple users/roles I'm still confused.
In my ...
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Team focusing on tasks, but not on User Stories
We have an architecturally layered application, with web frontend, java backend, java and python microservices, DB etc. so when we do a User Story representing business value, it's mostly broken down ...
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How to give/get the necessary implementation details in agile user stories?
I have a question regarding user stories and with agile in general. I read a few articles about user stories and there is a thing, that is not clear to me.
For example in this article there is the ...
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User stories with multiple users/roles
I thought this would be a more common problem, but I'm having trouble finding anything that provides a solution for me.
I currently have a user story that has 2 users/roles. I am wondering if there ...
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Should a bug be added in backlog?
Should a bug be added in backlog?
Probably with special rules like
a business value of 0
no complexity evaluation
can be urgent or not
can be added in current sprint
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How to prevent CI/CD process from being suspended while big changes happen?
This is more of a procedure and maybe a philosophical problem.
The development team I am in is divided into Scrum teams or Squads that work on the same product. Occasionally, either one of these ...
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Level of detail of a refined user story in SCRUM
The main subject of my question are the user stories, after they have been put in the backlog, discussed, refined and ready to be put into the upcoming Sprint. Do they have to list all the possible ...
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How can we better maintain a large amount of DbUnit datasets?
The project
I'm currently working on a Spring Boot project, and I have a question regarding testing against the database. Our testing tech is currently JUnit 4, Mockito and DbUnit, and we test ...
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Convincing “agile” product managers of the value of planning
Became tech lead of a startup a few months ago. Software development is under Product in the org chart.
Even by startup standards the codebase I've inherited is poor. Example: the dev team took three ...
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Is building REST API compatible with Agile approach?
I believe I understand what REST is and what Agile is. Our company has some APIs that we maintained, usually we only needed to tweak some requests or responses to fit new requirements. Recently, we ...
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the right reasons to start agile swarm development
We are a fairly new team of 5 devs working on an existing code base to make MVP somewhere in Q2 2020. We do not deliver to production yet but we do demo to stakeholders on our progress.
We try to work ...
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Should your team put everything they do in JIRA?
I have started working with a team, in a scrum master type role, who has been using JIRA for a kanban type framework. Over the last 6-12 months, they have used JIRA to enter pretty much everything ...
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My project manager does not accept carry-over in Scrum - is that normal?
I am a developer working on a new mobile app for Android and iOS with a big backend component. We have been in three sprints of this project, and we use Scrum with all of its ceremonies (refinement, ...
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Should a Product Owner (PO) be part of the Engineering team or Product team? [closed]
Our start-up is currently build this way:
Engineering Team which contains the following resources:
Director of Engineering
Mobile, front-end and back-end developers
Quality Assurance
Infrastructure ...
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Do user stories need to be Independent and Valuable or Independently Valuable? [duplicate]
I am trying to split down user stories for a brand new system. This system will record weight readings from a balance connected to a serial port.
Due to regulatory data integrity requirements - the ...
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Should backlog items be assigned to the scrum master?
I am having a debate with someone at work, think I know the answer, but I would like to hear what other people think. If anything, this will confirm that I am right, or show me a better way to ...
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Azure DevOps for multiple small projects
We are a software development company with less than 10 employees. Each employee may be a part of multiple projects. Also, the project manager may look after multiple projects as well. We use Azure ...
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Definition of Done/Definition of Ready - Shared for the whole organization?
Definition of Done and Definition of Ready may be very helpful in the organizations that are new to Agile methodology and Scrum framework.
Must all teams share the same DoD and DoR or it can be ...
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Product Backlog items estimation - How to avoid estimations in hours when there is no team velocity and team is new?
This is the case:
A new team which consists of 6 people. They are a new team so there is no velocity that can be used for further sprint planning.
A problem:
The project manager wants to know when ...
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Should refinement activity be ''locked'' in the calendar? - Must all of the members in the Scrum team participate in it?
We have two-week sprints and our PO organizes grooming activity when it's needed looking after that it should not exceed more than 10% of the development time.
Question is:
- Should refinement ...
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What were the most used SDLCs before Agile? [closed]
Before the creation of Agile, what were the most used models in Software Development?
I am writing a thesis on the various ITS software (like Jira) used to implement these models and I want to put a ...
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Where does learning new skills fit into Agile?
I am starting a financial software company and in the process I have been studying Agile principles and methods and the one aspect of development that I have not yet seen addressed is where to fit the ...
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How relevant is DSDM nowadays?
After recent years working mostly with SLA, Incident Management and ITSM, I'm considering moving back to software development management and agile methodology. I'm returning to SCRUM lessons and would ...
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Dealing with large code base quickly in agile
At my current company, the project I work on is coded in Java, at least for the systems / backend part. Whenever I get assigned a task dealing with the Java code, it take me hours or even days to ...
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Holding the Scrum events (planning, review, retrospective) in one working day
I have a question regarding scrum events that are all held in one day?
For example:
In the morning (review + retrospective) and in the afternoon another one (planning).
Currently, I am working in a ...
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Is lack of functional requirements agile?
Nowadays everybody wants to be agile. In every team I worked with, the shape of agile was different. Some things are common - like daily stand-ups or planning, but other parts vary significantly.
In ...
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Can stories always be independent (following the INVEST principle)?
I was trying to follow the INVEST approach for our stories but frankly, the “Independent on each other” does not really makes sense. Quite often stories are building functionality upon what has been ...
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How to handle inherited roles in user stories?
I'm having struggles how dealing with inherited roles. Here is an example :
As an admin, I want to do something 1
As an admin, I want to do something 2
As a super admin, I want to do something 3
So ...
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I'm sometimes the only one working for an entire day or longer. How should I handle the daily Scrum Stand-up?
We have a very small team: me, my 2 coworkers who are both my senior by over a decade, a web designer who usually works on marketing material but also does some graphical mock-ups or minor graphical ...
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How do I break down a feature that has complex dependencies?
Picture this feature:
Respond to a user from the event stream
The event stream is like Twitter's home page, a stream of messages or events that were triggered by any number of users. The feature ...
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Estimates, deadlines and milestone
I am currently learning agile with a focus on project planning. I am having some issues aligning the teachings to the real world.
With agile I have learned, that we need to get customer feedback in ...
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In scrum, if tasks are estimated in hours, how to avoid assigning the task in sprint planning?
I've been reading up a lot on the subject, and from what I can gather the following statements 'should' be true in scrum:
1) Estimate user stories in story points at the product backlog level. This ...
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Assigning story points to the hypothesis in the backlog [closed]
We have been using Scrum as our project management platform for a while, now we are moving toward Lean UX and hypothesis driven development practices. We are using Poker planning to determine the ...
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Decoupling User Stories in Agile Development
Based on what I've read, user stories are often cast in a "who", "what", and "why" format, i.e. "[Who] wants the system to do [What], so that [Why]". The "who" and "what" seem easy to grasp. For the ...
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Handling multiple pull requests from a branch
Our current workflow is that we create a Sprint branch and then developers create Feature branches having the user story number. Once the story is complete this Feature branch is merged to Sprint ...
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In Agile development, how does one account for tasks that are invisible to users? [duplicate]
I've worked in Agile environments for many years. However, one of the things that I've always felt uncomfortable about is the idea that each story should map to an end-user request.....i.e., an ...
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Need help for sprint planning when tasks are not done in previous sprint
In our team we don't have dedicated Scrum Master, so one of the developer is playing the role of SM. I know this is wrong but it can't be changed.
In our system, we assign story points to all the ...
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Best approach to deploying new features across multiple environments
We currently have four environments in AWS, development, test, beta and production. Previously, we released from develop to beta at the end of each sprint (2 weeks). We would create feature branches ...
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Agile process, assigning estimated tasks to people in a Sprint
Today I was surprised to hear that our Scrum Master and Product Owner decided that they wanted us to consider a change to how Sprint Planning was done. The change essentially is that all of the ...
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Identifying the Redundant Requirements in Scrum
I'm working on the research to resolve the Requirements conflicts in distributed Scrum where teams are distributed over multiple locations. I'm proposing a model that consists of five steps including ...
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Does the Scrum Guide Specify How Often to Release QA/Test Builds?
See https://www.scrumguides.org/scrum-guide.html
I've read through this several times and can't find anything about how often to do QA/Test builds during a sprint. There is a section called increment....
