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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How do squads work in the Spotify engineering model if they share the same code repository?
The Spotify model has become a popular example for the right way of doing development.
If a product has a single, main, code repository, like most products have, how do you make squads autonomous and ...
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Normalizing story points across teams, is there a big problem?
We have been thinking about comparing product size/effort at least roughly and this is what some suggested:
There are multiple products, each with one scrum team
All the scrum teams estimate their ...
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dev and qa in same sprint
I am not the first one to ask this but i also did not get anything concrete from other such posts to tell me what is needed so i am posing the question here. Feel free to refer to some other resource.
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Why are all definitions of agile framework so handwave-y?
Take the wikipedia definition:
Agile software development is an approach to software development under which requirements and solutions evolve through the collaborative effort of self-organizing ...
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Should agile sprints/iterations be back-to-back?
I know -- it depends, right?
What I'm asking is whether the notion that sprints/iterations in agile development should always be back-to-back, with only a review and planning meeting to separate them ...
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Agile Practices: Code Review - Fail the review or raise an issue?
At the end of a 2 week sprint and a task has a code review, in the review we discover a function that works, is readable, but it's quite long and has a few code smells. Easy refactor job.
Otherwise ...
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What is the difference between agile and incremental development process models
As the title implies , what is the difference between these both concepts? According to my understanding , Agile software process uses increments , where some requirements are first implemented and ...
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How minimum-documentation agile development is compatible with requirement that business processes should be documented?
Minimum-documentation is one of the basic features of agile development (intuitive GUI, visually rich documentation, automated tests replaces it). But usually software development goes hand in hand ...
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Can story points be used to describe size of several projects estimated by several teams?
KLOC has been - I think justly - criticized as too inaccurate to express size when comparing several projects.
In only one source I found a calculation that uses Story Points and thus allow to compare ...
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Verification Statements and Acceptance Criteria
We are using verification statements which describe how the requirement should be tested. These statements are co located and associated with the requirement. How is this different than a set of ...
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Preexisting culture issues during Scrum transition
My team has been trying to transition to Scrum for some time now, but it seems like the preexisting culture is preventing the team from switching to a new mindset or even causing it to move in the ...
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User Story Time Constraints
My team has been trying to switch to Agile recently. The line manager has been taking 1-2 days per user story as a hard limit rather than a guideline, and framing it as a failure of the developer if ...
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Only test when necessary in agile software development: good or bad idea?
When taking an agile development approach, it is obvious to only implement features when necessary. My question is: can the same be applied when it comes to testing, i.e. creating test cases and only ...
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Are agile (and other software development process/methodologies) really bad for architecture and design?
I was wandering around google and saw a paper in which the author says in introduction that Agile methodologies, (in my own word) does not put enough emphasis on software architecture and design...
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How to handle a user story that is significantly larger than estimated
A user story calls for an extension to a current feature. This is reviewed and discussed in planning and given a small/medium point value. Internally within the team the effort is estimated at 2 to 3 ...
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Working Through a User Story
I am trying to tighten up my process for tackling a feature request. Currently, we use trello to manage feature requests using cards. They typically look like this.
Card Title: Invite a friend
Card ...
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BDD process for SAP development
Perhaps this story should be titled "BDD definitions for agile service stories"...
For our .NET-based stories (always vertical slices) we use definitions matching the well known BDD format.
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Deconflicting Role of Solution Architect and Product Owner
I currently work as a Solution Architect within a Scaled Agile organization. We also have Product Owners who are in terms of the Company a "higher rank" than the technical oversight group that the ...
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Benefit of using JIRA issue key in fork based workflow
My team follows the practice of including JIRA issue key in each of our commits and also in the title of a Pull Request.
Each developer usually make changes in a branch on his/her own fork and then ...
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Out of sync development in back end vs front end
We have two developers working on the same project. One is doing the front end and the other doing the back end.
Everything is working well, however we have come across the developer doing the back ...
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How to deal with sprint planning running far too long?
I took over 5 hours in sprint planning for a week long sprint. That seems like too much.
We discuss things in detail in sprint planning, as most of team members are not senior. If we don't it will ...
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Cloning Jira tickets at the end of a sprint - carrying over effort and points
I have been working with Jira within an Agile scrum like methodology for a while now. What happens quite often is a ticket is estimated and started on. By the end of the sprint 95% of the work is done....
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What is a good definition of “clear code” for a checklist (specifically Scrum definition of done)?
My manager wants us to complete a checklist for a Definition of Done, where the checklist items are short.
What is a good way to phrase "code is clear" that might better imply that the code is ...
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Scrum: Should Irregular Events Be Estimated?
Should a Scrum team estimate irregular, planned events, such as an overview/demo to new users and potential customers? Our team is pretty small, so the effort to prepare for and conduct these events ...
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Agile development: where to include UI coding?
I've been doing agile planning for a long time, but always I get to the same question: where should I put the basic UI development tasks? I mean, for example, if we are developing a web app, we need ...
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Shared Development Tasks for Agile User Stories
My team is going to be using Visual Studio Team Services for an upcoming project. The Agile tools let me organize User Stories and Tasks hierarchically like this:
Epic > Feature > User Story > Task/...
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how Do i do implement Agile/Scrum in project real?
hello I am new here and I am not a software enginner I am a junior only and I saw always this : ** Agile/Scrum** I understand that is but my question is how could I implement that in a project real ...
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At what Work Item level does the Product Owner prioritize in TFS?
Our team is reviewing our Agile process while we look at moving to Kanban style flow instead of Sprints. One question we are having a hard time answering is
At what level (what type of Work Item) ...
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How to implement a development process with college students
At my first job as a software developer, my team used agile/scrum to manage our project workflow and it worked pretty good. I had some experienced mentors who set me on the right track - I owe them a ...
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Agile - What we doing wrong?
I'm a developer in an agile team, and we try to use Scrum.
So I'll put here a hypothetical problem to illustrate the situation.
We have a very old app, using some messy and bad maintainability ...
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How do you track project setup in an Scrum environment?
We are kicking off a new project following Scrum procedures and we realized that at the beginning of the project we have to prepare a lot of things that are not user related (so they are not user ...
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If higher story points represent exponentialy more effort why are they allocated linearly?
This is a standard confusion I've always had with the concept of story points. I've always been told that the complexity of story points should go up roughly exponentially. Essentially a task pointed ...
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Migrating from legacy database schema, rewrite legacy or sync to new
We're currently in the process of designing our new version of an existing application. This new version will not reuse any existing code as the old code is over 10 years old and tightly coupled.
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How do you handle integrating code from multiple branches/developers each sprint?
Just got off a retro call where developers expressed concern around the integration of their stories into the master branch each sprint. The developers all code within their own branch and towards the ...
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What is the difference between Pre-IPM and Product Backlog Refinement?
The Iteration Planning Meeting (IPM) is equivalent to Sprint Planning. Before IPM, our team holds a Pre-IPM meeting which helps us avoid long IPM and get more details about the stories. This technique ...
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minimalistic software modeling standard as a replacement for UML
I've been using UML 2.x for several years and it really worked for Object-Oriented languages like C# and Java especially when the software was big enough to be considered an enterprise-level system.
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Where to place non functional tasks in user story map
I am new with the user story map approach, I started with to compose the stories to be implemented from user perspective, and it seems very promising.
However, I am not sure about the non-functional ...
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How to planning tasks with junior developers? [closed]
As I am only senior developer in team, Others are juniors who not strong to write clean code and architect.
Problem is the during sprint planning, It took very hard time for me to lead technical ...
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How do you deal with the effort to implement a basic architecture/infrastructure for your first feature
When we start a new project with scrum with estimate user stories with points.
These points mean we are busy in the sprint.
Now there is work to do initially at project start like:
Create git repo ...
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Product Backlog vs. huge features
I am designing and documenting a product with agile process. When I write user stories to add them to the product backlog, I found myself in a complex and huge features.
Should I write these features ...
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How DevOps fit into Software Development Division of Labour?
I believe the concept of DevOps is the single person handling all the activities of a given requirement.
1) Understanding the requirement/problem
2) Come up with logic to solve the problem
3) Write ...
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How often should I push CRM solutions from Dev to Test in 3 week sprints?
I'm on a new CRM dev team. And simply put, I haven't seen sprint execution such a mess in my whole professional career.
I have a deployment plan moving forward. I have an idea how I want continuous ...
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Is “evolutionary software architecture” a contradiction?
In my understanding, evolutionary architecture boils down to making architecture easy to modify. Now architecture is often defined as the things that you should get right early because they will be ...
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Scrum daily meetings: difference between Reporting and Check-In?
The "Three Questions" for Scrum dailies sound to me like a perfect instruction, to waste 15 minutes with useless status reporting:
What have you completed since the last meeting?
What do you plan to ...
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Is Agile a software development methodology?
Back ground:
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Waterfall model has it's own phases of SDLC:
Requirements -> Design -> Implementation -> Verification -> Maintenance
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Iterative model has it's own phases of SDLC:
But the term ...
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How do you cope with a team who tends to underestimate time needed to complete tasks?
How do you cope with a team who tends to underestimate time needed to complete tasks and haven't been improving the accuracy of their estimates?
Details:
I work in a scrum team (7 engineers) in a ...
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Agile methodology in pure technical terms
I often hear about agility processes, but it seems to me that it is (nearly) always tied to team organization and delivery processes. It (nearly, once again) never comes to the bottom of the bottle: ...
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Agile methodology: quick and dirty or plan first?
Agile question: does agile believe in getting things up and running the “quick and dirty way” - or does agile prefer building solidly from the ground up? Or is this not a methodology question, and ...
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How do the Scrum Master's responsibilities change over the years?
If a team already practices Scrum method successfully, how does the Scrum Master participate in further development? Will he/she continue to fulfill the same responsibilities?
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Who should handle customer support within an Agile team?
We currently have a maintenance role within our team which the developers on our team rotate each 2 week sprint.
This consists of:
Responding to user bug reports & creating stories/issues for ...
