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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User stories - Different formats for different purposes?
To the best of my knowledge, user stories follow a format such as
As a [role], I want to [do] such that [benefit] - (This takes 8 days to develop)
Recently in the book Software Engineering by Ian ...
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What to include in sprint backlog in the first weeks of developing?
When using SCRUM as an agile method for development, the first sprint (at least) will involve planning and requirements gathering, alongside user interactions.
When I search sprint backlogs, it ...
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Common details in the acceptance criteria of related user stories
I'd like to state first that I'm still learning about scrum, so my apologies if my question seemed naïve.
Lets say we have an E-learning portal, and I have the following user story:
"As a ...
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Using Kanban or Scrum across 2 companies
I work for a consulting company and we're doing a software contract for a big company. Part of what we are doing for them is helping them figure out what they want, which means the requirements are ...
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How to manage the team effectively on a self-managing team?
I always adopt a practical attitude towards agile & scrum. I am more concerned with customer collaboration, small/continuous release, incremental development than following scrum rules strictly.
I ...
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Handling the end of sprint cycle between testers and developers [duplicate]
I've convinced our organization to move to a full-team definition of "Done", i.e. one that includes the QA testing and not just code completion. As a result, we can now more accurately tell where the ...
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How to use Subversion in conjunction with DTAP with several Scrum teams?
I've read How Do You Pull Something from a Release?, but it doesn't solve our problems, as our case is more complex.
Our situation is as follows. We're developing an application for an internal ...
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All full stack developers vs backend and frontend developers?
We are a product based website company. We deal with online sell/purchase of automobiles. We have an already-established product with daily 100k visitors on our website.
Current scrum team - six ...
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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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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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Continuous Delivery: Kanban, SCRUM, or other?
I was wondering if there was an SDLC (software development lifecycle) or methodology (Kanban, SCRUM, waterfall, otherwise, etc.) that was particularly well-suited for continuous delivery systems, and ...
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Combining KanBan in a SCRUM process
Does anybody have an experience in combining KanBan in SCRUM, could this work, would this make sence or would it be an overdesign?
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How to organize work for a team delivering 3 connected but distinct products and stay agile
We are a team responsible for 3 products:
2 products are in active development of new functionality and are moving fast therefore work there could be classified as project
3rd product is alive and ...
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Should user stories be assigned to team members?
We are using JIRA to manage the scrum process. What I'm curious about is whether the User Story issue type should be assigned to a team member, the PO, or remain unassigned. My gut tells me it should ...
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User story does not fit in a sprint [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Scrum: how to handle backlog-items that are longer than one sprint
I have a project with complex user stories which take way longer to implement than spring length.
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Agile is said to be iterative-incremental, but where is this "revisiting" and "refining" if we follow Definition of Done?
First of all, I found it a bit strange because technically, iterative means something that is done as a recurring series of steps - so how can one be purely incremental, when each increment will be ...
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Right agile method (Scrum, Kanban, etc.) to follow with strict release cadence
In my organization there is a release cadence to deploy any piece of code to Production environment.
We have three environments, Dev, Test and Prod and we have deployment in every 15days and the dates ...
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How do you split your time when you are a product owner and a software architect?
I have a role that combines the role of product owner with a role of software architect. I have final say for both product and technical decisions:
The Product owner role is similar as in scrum: I ...
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Should SCRUM be used for a project with only one person working on it?
At our company we have a team working on 3 different projects at the same time, where typically only one or two people are involved in each project. Project work often involves mastering new ...
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Fighting ticket driven development in agile/scrum? [closed]
Our team has the problem (and benefit) of having a very stubborn project manager. He insists that all discussion of tickets happen during grooming sessions. He is the one who selects which tickets ...
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In agile development team, is it helpful to also have a minority of developers who may not be agile?
We have a few developers who are slower than the typical agile expectation. They get fewer tickets completed in a given sprint. But on the upside, their work is more correct and higher quality.
Is ...
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How should training activities be handled in Agile/Scrum
Something that bugs me with sprint planning, is where training fits in. Let's say you have a requirement to learn JQuery for a small web application. There would seem to be a number of possible ...
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How to place user training into a Scrum backlog?
After we have developed new features in a sprint the users must be trained for using these features. How does this happen in Scrum? Which role should give the training and how should it be reflected ...
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Bug triage on a micro-services architecture
We do have a micro-services architecture with a team assigned to each micro-service considering it as a product on itself.
The "real product" is a front-end that uses multiple micro-services ...
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Is it advisable to have a developer who's also the Product Owner in an Agile team?
I know this may fall under "opinion," but I'm also genuinely looking for advice on how to proceed here.
Our product owner recently left our team of 3 developers for another role. We don't ...
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Is it agile friendly to propose equal distribution of dev tasks at the beginning of the sprint?
My question is about Agile and if there is a known technics to split "equally" dev tasks between developers.
In a backlog, at the beginning of the sprint, our devteam is asked to take tasks ...
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What have you seen go wrong when introducing SCRUM? [closed]
What was the single point of failure encountered when your company decided to replace the current processes with SCRUM?
Can you give me some examples of things that have gone really wrong when a ...
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Which methodologies use waterfall strategy and which use incremental strategy?
I know difference between waterfall and incremental strategies. But I'm somewhat confused because I see that there are methodologies which use incremental or iterative approach but I cannot see any ...
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How to show different platforms on a user story map?
I'm now a huge fan/believer of Jeff Patton's user story map. I'm currently reading his book..
Jeff talks a lot about depicting different roles on a user story. However, I'm not sure how to do this ...
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What's the scope of the Definition of Done in Scrum?
The Scrum Guide isn't very explicit about the scope of the Definition of Done.
Is it supposed to be:
defined in general for the project?
defined per sprint or per increment?
defined per story?
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How many user stories per person should be completed per sprint? [closed]
Just ran across this figure, and wondering if there's another well know source than would help confirm these numbers:
Based on data I analyzed on successfully finished sprints, I
determined that a ...
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Scrum Sprint Optimization
Looking for a systematic method for estimating and comparing the success factors of sprint configurations based on:
Team Size
Sprint Duration
Number of Stories
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Does Scrum turn active developers into passive developers?
I'm a web developer working in a team of three developers and one designer. It's now about five months that we've implemented the agile scrum software development methodology. But I have a weird ...
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Is it right to appraise Scrum members according to number of successful user stories completed?
When my Manager told to team that "from now on successful user stories will be considered for appraisal!"
We sat there for while shocked and that was one of the several jaw dropping moments ...
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Are "technical user stories" allowed in Scrum?
Are technical user stories allowed in Scrum? If so, what is the standard template for writing technical user stories in Scrum?
Is it the same As a <user> I want to do <task> so that I can &...
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Scrum - Developers Working Outside of Sprint
The Scrum Team
3 x Developers
2 x Testers
1 x Automation Test Analyst
We are not a multi-functional team in that the developers don't test and the testers don't develop. I believe this is the root ...
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Can Agile/Scrum be used by 1 or 2 developers?
Everything I've been reading and researching up to this point describes how Agile/Scrum works great with teams of about 4 to 6 members, maybe even more.
In my current shop, we have about 8 developers ...
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Is replacing daily scrum meeting by a status email called Agile?
If an Agile team has members, such as developers, from different geographical regions, how can the daily scrum meeting happen? Obviously, they have to work in different time zones.
Do you think the ...
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Should non-priority technical debt tickets be pruned from backlog?
I regularly review the technical debt tickets from my backlog, to prioritize them and remove those which are no longer relevant (fixed by some other development, obsolete...) Among those with high ...
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Does Scrum need System specification document?
We're building a website to manage our company asset, and apply Agile/Scrum to this project.
We started with the Product backlog as in attachment.
We planned to start the first Sprint but the team ...
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Scrum Team has grown too large, how should it be split
The insurance company for which I work has had an ongoing software development project for the last several years, which has been split between multiple lines.
software package:
The suite we are ...
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How implement company procedures while using scrum?
My manager give me the task to implement new ISO procedures of analysis and design (later it will be of the entire software development cycle) because in the team we don't have any kind of methodology ...
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Use SCRUM with 2TUP
After taking a look to SCRUM it doesn't same to me "enough" to lead a project since it isn't disucssing the technical side of it, so my questions are:
1-is it possible/recommanded to combine SCRUM ...
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Does an increment always involve a working prototype?
I would like to ask a question about Scrum. At the end of a Sprint, when we have the Sprint Review, we present an Increment.
The guide says that this Increment has to be potentially releasable.
My ...
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What to do when a sprint is finished early?
What to do when a sprint is finished early?
At the moment our Scrum team works off stories from the backlog, if the sprint is finished early.
What happens with stories taken from the backlog? Will ...
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Is it a good idea to appoint one of the scrum team member or scrum master as Product Owner?
Lately we had a project, in which client was busy touring. As usual scrum team was formed, management decided to appoint our analyst as Product owner since Client won’t be able to participate actively....
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Should the team reduce future estimates after becoming competent at a new skill, because estimates were increased while learning?
I have been pushing unit testing lately. This is a new skill for my team. I have had 10+ years experience writing unit tests, but I am basically the only person on the team with any experience with ...
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How much technical detail should we talk in Sprint Planning 2
I'm working in a Scrum team, We have Sprint Planning 2 to breakdown backlog into technical tasks.
The team is pretty big around 12 developers, We can't split cause it's not under our control.
We ...
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As a developer, how should I work differently in kanban vs scrum?
I am a junior back-end developer at a large company in the US.
At the moment, my 10-member team is changing its approach from Kanban to scrum (2 week sprints). My current way of working is this: I ...
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Should defects have story points in Scrum?
As far as I know, we use story points to measure the complexity of a story in Scrum.
But what about Defect? Should Defect have story points? If it does, what does it mean by completing these points, ...
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