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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Where does 'doc specifications' end and 'role ownership' start?
What is the Agile philosophy around the criteria for a groomed story and Tech team responsibility?
(I deliberately phrased the explanation as antagonistic for the sake clarifying the opposing ...
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When are component teams a better choice than feature teams in agile development?
When it comes to organizational structure in an agile context, many people claim that feature teams are generally a better choice than component teams. There exist, however, some online sources that ...
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How to keep CRUD user stories from being trite and simplistic?
I'm having trouble keeping my user stories for basic operations from sounding ... basic. For example, suppose I'm building a CRM to keep track of clients:
C: As a user, I want to create a client, so ...
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A definition of “Done” in case of several Development Teams working on a same product
One of the scrum tests contains the question about the definition best describing "Done" when multiple development teams perform a work on a same product.
A proper answer states that those ...
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How to affect priorities to bugs to developers and treat them accordingly?
We have a bug process that is currently being worked.
We have 3 levels of bug:
P1 bug: Bugs that prevents users from working. They must be solved on the spot.
P2 bug: Bugs that are impacting but ...
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How to alleviate the development process through JIRA?
In our agile-scrum process, for each epic we are creating , we are creating automatically one user story that is related to that epic.
From that user story, we are creating automatically too, 4 ...
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Additional Stories in sprint for quick fixes
I have introduced sprint into our team and after a rocky start, we are starting to get some rhythm. One of the opinions of the dev team is they still want to be able to work on bugs and enhancements ...
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Why are burn down and burn up charts mostly used in agile projects?
Burn down and burn up charts are used in agile projects to visualize the progress of a sprint. The same type of chart could also be applied to entire projects, not only to a single sprint. Thus they ...
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How to Integrate Old UI in Microservice
We have about 10 applications in one Monolith that need to be refactored into Microservices.
Following an Agile approach, we would like to split work into vertical slices where each slice would be ...
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Is there any good reason for not using the issue tracker 'properly'?
I am used to treating the issue tracker as a source of truth and an organisational memory. I use it to record what the issue is and what has been done towards resolving it.
I consider this to be ...
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how would you plan monthly refactoring days to eliminate technical debt in your team?
My team (yet) did not do much to work on technical debt and our code base includes huge amount of TODO code, unused code, 'could get better' code, @Ignore unitests and more.
I am about to start ...
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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 ...
