Questions tagged [scrum]
An agile framework within which a Product Owner (PO), Development Team (DT) of 3-9 Developers and a Scrum Master (SM) work as the Scrum Team (ST) to build and sustain complex products of the highest possible value. They do this work within a timebox called a Sprint; Sprints may be shorter, but may not last more than 30 days. Events, roles and artifacts are described definitively in the official Scrum guide: http://scrumguides.org/scrum-guide.html
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Handling epics that only provide a shippable product at the end
i am currently evaluating whether SCRUM would be right for our team.
One thing that i do not understand so far and have not found a satisfactory response to is how something like "complete refactoring"...
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Project structure for overlapping product generations?
Our company is developing 2 generations of a product in parallel. Our product cycle is about 2-3 years. Today we're working on:
generation N "production": next product to be released, getting things ...
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Agile tools, can't find any that suits my case or I'm wrong somewhere? [closed]
We have huge modules in our project, each module has a bunch of user-stories, each story contains developer tasks. Actually, we take tasks from multiple modules, since we have some core module ...
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Agile: QA without dedicated test resource
I'm currently working in a small internal software development team of four people. Having had a lot of success with Agile in the past (which none of my colleagues have used before), I'm keen to try ...
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What is the purpose of planning poker in a sprint?
Our business analyst and project leads tell us the client's requirement as Stories. Every Sprint planning, we (developers) are asked to play planning poker.
They asked all of us to consider the '...
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How can I implement scrum if management won't commit resources?
I want to try to apply scrum to a project. For the purposes of my question, let's assume that there are no other problems I'm trying to solve; I just want to practice scrum.
Over the summer we're ...
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Agile. User stories, Tasks and Reporting
At the moment we are creating tasks based on (pointed) user stories. We then link the tasks to the user story in TFS and move them across the kanban board. Does this sound like a common approach? also ...
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Big tasks vs short list of small ones at sprint planning meeting
Simply: Sprint planning, we do not have well described user stories and we need to create tasks (since we do PoC-like module, technology remain somewhat unknown). Should a team either:
Create big ...
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How can user stories not contain requirements (when written on a card) and still be implementable
I've been told "User Stories are not requirements, it is just a reminder of what customer wants, you cannot put requirements within a story". But let's take for an example that a customer wants a ...
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Who should be allowed to add stories to the product backlog?
What is the best practice for that prevents the backlog from becoming a mess, but also maintaining developer productivity
Who should we allow to add stories to the product backlog? And how do you ...
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Applying agile methodologies in a fast moving support environment
Do any agile methodologies have a place in the following setting:
Small web development team, working on a mixture of frontend, backend, design work, with a mixture of new projects, inherited bad ...
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In SCRUM, should a long tedious task have a large size
Various articles on SCRUM methodology explicitly state that sizing should not focus on time, bur rather on the more abstract "complexity" or "effort needed" of the task.
How should a task be sized if ...
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Should a scrum team estimate time for the user stories during Sprint Planning, or before it? [duplicate]
I am newbie for scrum. Lets say we have all the user stories for the product, and the product owner gave them the priorities. Now as a team, when we should estimate times for these stories? Should we ...
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Fixed scope and resources - but I am being asked for an exact release date [duplicate]
We have a project where the scope and resources are fixed.
We have a fully groomed backlog and a velocity, so from this I can work out a rough idea of when we may release.
As a team, we feel it is ...
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Help, team members out of tasks want to start with future sprints topics
I have this problem, a team with 4 members working under scrum, with specific skills each one of them:
Person A) DBA with reporting skills
Person B) DBA with stored procedure skills and a very deep ...
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Scrum in combination with ad hoc bug fixes [duplicate]
I worked in a company where they tried to use Scrum but in practice it was hard to create a solid sprint backlog because they had a very active userbase, that used the software 8 hours a day, and ...
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Scrum and backlogged issues
I run a development team that recently started using Jira and we began using agile scrum. I'm curious about a certain aspect of backlogged issues.
So far I have been marking new issues as unassigned ...
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Scrum: Capacity vs Velocity when planning a sprint
We have completed 11 sprints so far in our current project. In most sprints we have not been burning down well and usually finish with our velocity gradient flattening as we approach the end of the ...
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Scrum: Is it ok for the design/UX of user story to occur in the same sprint as implementation
I am currently in a sprint (two weeks) where the designer is tasked with defining the requirements and UX of a particular user story.
In the same sprint, I am to implement this design. During sprint ...
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Sprints between Thanksgiving, Christmas and New Years
What do hardened Scrum folks say about planning Sprints around "Major Holidays" lots of stakeholders have a tendency to take multiple days off and the tendency is that we'll miss sprint goals and ...
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Who is responsible to challenge a product owner? [duplicate]
I am relatively new to Scrum and I am not clear on the boundaries of a product owner.
The product owner that I am currently working with seems to behave more like a manager than someone who gives ...
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Who writes the technical 'user stories' in scrum
I know that a product owner should write a user story in scrum.
A user story is describing a feature for the end user.
But who describes what needs to be technically developed and how it needs to be ...
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How to work on not User Story related tasks
I'd like to create a developer task collector where I'd put all issues that I see need some work but are not User Story related (e.g. fix some not visible quirks in startup animation, scan code with ...
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Does scrum involve writing tests before code? [closed]
I just read that in XP, tests are written before code. Scrum is a different Agile Methodology but does scrum also involve writing tests before code?
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Scrum: Is it okay for the development manager to be the Product Owner
My company is going through an agile rollout and is currently considering options for what that means.
The ScrumMaster role is somewhat straightforward, but Product Owner has many candidates: ...
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How long are scrum meetings supposed to last? [duplicate]
I read that Scrum meetings should be less than 15 minutes long. Is this how long they usually are, or do they depend on the size of the development team? Must every team member speak in these?
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In an Agile Environment, who is responsible for software architecture
In an agile team, who is responsible for making high-level architecture and design decisions that affect the entire system, not just the work being done in the current sprint?
Maybe product owner, ...
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How should I break this user story into tasks
I am trying to understand how to create user stories and tasks. I have read articles stating that you should create small user stories and they should be a "vertical slice" of functionality instead of ...
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How to express what do do when error occurs in a user story?
How do you express what to do when error occurs in a user story? Should the response to what happen on errors be in a task of the original user story, or should I create another user story that is ...
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Organizations of user stories and tasks
I have bought Jira for my hobby project and I am currently creating epics, user stories and tasks. I have a question regarding organization and registration of tasks.
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I have a user story that is: ...
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Agile Story Pointing - Shared Resources
I'm running a team that takes care of 3 products that are distinct in language/product type so that 2 out of 6 developers I manage are only ever locked to coding on 2 of the products (thick client ...
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Should every member of scrum team be universal? [closed]
We have a scrum team where there are 5 developers, 2 automated testers, 1 manual tester. Our tasks are completely independent.
Shouldn't there be 8 people, every one should be able to do every task: ...
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In Agile, should I create a code-review task?
My team uses Agile as a development approach. Currently, each task has four states which are todo, in progress, testing, and done.
We've just started doing code reviews, and I wonder if I need to ...
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Alternatives for Agile Scrum [closed]
We started following the Agile Scrum methodology and we have completed about 10 sprints.
One observation I had is that not all in the team are taking up the responsibilities of completing the tasks ...
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Is randomly refactoring code allowed in scrum
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My team uses scrum
I have currently no task assigned
There are no more pending task in the backlog
Today is Labor Day for my client.
Not having many things to do today I wanted to start ...
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Which one is better?Change sprint dates or one team member is not attend sprint plans for 4 months [closed]
We have an agile team and nearly running 80. sprint.Our sprint starts wednesday and finish Tuesday 10 days after.One of our team member,developer, will attend to a university course every Wednesday ...
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How to write a user story specific to tasks in this case [duplicate]
We have planned to take up an user story say
As a player I want to view the game map to know current standings of my team
The sprint is for two weeks. We will be able to complete only HTML in two ...
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Is a new change request on a user story a different user story
We have completed a user story for a sprint. Near the end of the sprint there was a new functional addition requested for the same user story.
Here the user story will remain the same. ie
As a <...
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Point estimates scale skewed
When using planning poker for estimates, we've ended up with effectively a non-linear points scale. By that I mean that point value is inconsistent for one-pointers and, say, eight-pointers. Couple ...
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Managing 'done' but not releasable code in TFS
I am working in an organisation with 11 scrum teams developing on the same code base. Currently, all development is done in trunk, and at the end of a sprint everything MUST be releasable, or it must ...
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Scrum vs. Agile vs. CMMI [closed]
I am pushing my project over to Visual Studio Online in order to have some source control. I am developing this project by myself. I have never used Scrum, Agile, nor CMMI before, and the detailed ...
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Changing story-point estimates after closing the story
In a running multi-year multi-team project there is a set of stories that have been fully estimated and closed, having fulfilled the definition of done. Time has progressed and possibilities in Jira ...
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How do you deal with being behind on a task? [closed]
I have a question for you guys. Say, you're given a task as an item in a product backlog. Say, you have a deliverable that's due the following day. If you're behind on the task compared to when you ...
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Split work item into prototype and main work item?
During grooming, we usually have work items which get approved based upon the team understanding that what needs to be done? The product owner does not discuss the details of how it will be done and ...
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Why the terms used in Scrum are so strange?
I'm not a native English speaker, currently I'm reading some articles about Scrum.
I was wondering if the English terms used in Scrum seem strange to you?
For example,
backlog instead of todo;
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Coding and testing in the same sprint
How is testing handled within the same sprint as coding, if all or most of the coding is not done until the end of the sprint? (I'm referring to the "soup-to-nuts" development and testing of a single ...
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Responsibility for delegation of stories in agile
I've recently worked on a project where the Team lead was commenting he needed to figure out which stories we are going to be working on in a scrum. It was my understanding that stories are ...
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Enforcing organizational standards for software in Scrum
Organizations, especially organizations with a recognized brand, have various standards for software. This includes things like security, usability, code quality and readability, UI design, test ...
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User Story or User Stories for this specific requirement
I have to write a user story for a requirement that involves passing search filters to the same URI and retrieving corresponding results.
I have 5 filters.
I plan to write 5 different stories of ...
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Reporting defects in Agile
I am working in sprint. At the end of sprint I need to send a defect report per sprint. Considering the below scenario please let me know your views.
Two teams(A & B) are working at different ...
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