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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"Materialised" view of the Sprint Goal and consequences of its absence
The Scrum guide defines the Sprint Goal as:
an objective that will be met within the Sprint
through the implementation of the Product Backlog, and it provides
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In Scaled Scrum release management, how do you handle unfinished features?
In scaled Scrum release management, what's the code management strategy if there are unfinished features in the code base?
For example, SAFe agile framework recommends all teams complete sprints the ...
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Agile development where customer collaboration is difficult
The agile manifesto states
Customer collaboration over contract negotiation
My question is how do you make this work effectively when there is distance between the developers and the users?
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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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How do you explain agile process tool (like Scrum or Kanban) to a (traditional) project manager? [closed]
I am sure many people involved in the software development projects came up with this question, but I could not actually come up with satisfying answer.
How to explain to a manager used to having a ...
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Is hierarchical product backlog a good idea in TFS 2012-2013?
I'd like to validate I'm not in the wrong way.
My team project is using Visual Studio Scrum 2.x. Since each area/product has a lot of kind of requirements (security, user interface, HTTP/REST ...
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Product backlog- when do task hours get estimated?
I am wondering if when developing a product backlog do tasks have hours estimated for them. To confirm, i can talking about a product backlog here not a sprint backlog as I know it does have.
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Backlog item with preparation for future sprint Scrum
I'm currently at the beginning of a build. We are requiring a lot of back end functionality around Clients/Users/Groups/Roles.
However, these aren't required for Sprint 1 which is acting as a MVP ...
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Functional metrics in Agile methodologies
I'm preparing a presentation about Agile methodology for managers (not programmers) and I'm looking that, from a side, the Agile talks about functional perspective*^ (in Scrum we have planning game) ...
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What issues should we be aware of converting to Agile/Scrum with a project that's underway? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
What have you seen go wrong when introducing SCRUM?
Let me preface the question by telling you that our company doesn't have any formal "thou shalt..." processes in place ...
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Self-organizing SCRUM teams and economic efficiency
As SCRUM teams are self-organized they are free to choose how to implement tasks.
However, isn't there a risk that teams could end up deciding to do for instance full re-writes (instead of constant ...
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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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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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how Do i do implement Agile/Scrum in project real? [closed]
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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Does Scrum prescribe work item statuses and their meanings?
At work, we're using Scrum with Azure DevOps (specifically using the Scrum process to manage our items) to run our sprints.
My question is, does the Scrum process within Azure Boards or Scrum in ...
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Potentially shippable product requires automating tests [closed]
To always have a potentially shippable product at the end of each 2-week Sprint, we need to rerun a lot of regression tests at the end of each Sprint. This is very repetitive and time consuming, so ...
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Product owner and/or scrum master in performance review of developers
Currently at my company three people take part in the annual performance evaluation of a software developer:
the developer,
product owner from the scrum team of the developer,
head of software ...
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How can I validate that the feature (user-story) I created meets the requirement of the end user? [closed]
How can I validate that the feature (user-story) I created meets the requirement of the end users / stakeholders?
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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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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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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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Scrum is methodology or framework? [closed]
I am confuse about scrum .it is methodology or Framework?.
I want to use scrum for development but i want to develop scrum tool but i am confuse scrum is methodology or framework?
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What is the role of scrum master in minimizing the impact of a team member leaving the team? [closed]
As a Scrum Master, how does one plan to minimize the impact of the sprint deliverables/to the team when a team member is leaving?
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How much front-end design must be done before every Sprint in Scrum?
I'm a front-end developer working as a member of an agile team. I have no clue how much of UI/UX must be done before every sprint and how much of it I can postpone for later.
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Code review and then what? [duplicate]
In my team we have a policy that each code should be reviewed by at least one other developer. When the review is done the reviewer just clicks the merge button so the code ends up in development. ...
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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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Does Agile (scrum) require one server environment? [closed]
Is it necessary/recommend/best practice/any other positive to use only one server environment to perform all development, unit testing and QA?
If so, is it then wise/part of Agile to then have only ...
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How to be a good team member and push the team towards new paradigms and technologies at the same time.
I am pretty new within our Scrum team. (Round about 4 months)
Whenever I suggest some paradigm like "DevOps" or technology like "Kubernetes" to solve issues I am criticised at least from a part of the ...
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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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How many hours a day in a sprint in scrum framework?
I am trying to follow scrum framework as much as i can but i am facing some confusion. I like to know what are the standard guide lines for a sprint. I am designing the sprint but i am not sure to get ...
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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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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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What semantics should be used when referring to waterfall and agile methodologies [closed]
I've just been involved in a debate regarding semantics of how to define approaches to the software development lifecycle.
As far as I have been concerned, waterfall and agile are not methodologies, ...
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Handle project where the goals is to choose a new solution [closed]
After my scrum certification, I had a chance to be selected as the team lead of a small project in my company. The goals is to made a choice on the new SAP the company will use. We are a team of 6 ...
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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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Does the Product Backlog just consists out of User Stories in Agile Development? [closed]
As far as we know, the User Stories are the way a requirement is defined in bounded context with acceptance criteria. On the other hand, the Product Backlog enlists all requirements, i.e., new feature,...
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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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I have several user stories which will be provided by a new application, where do I detail setting up the new application itself? [duplicate]
We have a feature like "new command-line query tool" and stories like:
As a user, I can do X
As a user, I can do Y
As a user, I can do Z
Where/how do I detail "create the test harness ...
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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 many sprints between 2 dates when the number of weeks cannot be exactly divided by sprint lenght?
I want to calculate how many sprints I have between two dates, for example : April 1,2020 and June 4,2020.
The number of weeks between the two dates is : 9 weeks and 1 day. My Sprints are 2 weeks ...
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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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How to Communicate New Features to Delivery Team
In our company we have to development teams.
The Product Team and the Delivery Team.
I am working in the Product Team and the Delivery Team is consuming the framework, libraries, and services we are ...
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Should Product Requirements reflect vendors' APIs capabilities and limitations?
I have a question about the responsibilities of the Scrum Product Owner and the Scrum Engineer/Architect.
It is said that in Scrum the Product Requirements (PRD) specify the "what", but not the "how"....
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What line of code is written first in Software development? [closed]
When building software, we usually go through the requirements phase to design and all the stuff but when we start writing the actual code, how do we decide on which parts of the software will be ...
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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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"Self-organizing" Team vs HR and Management [closed]
If a shop is small, where does self-organizing come into play. If there is only one DB Admin, one DevOps Unix Admin etc...where the manager already decided what resources are required by the company.
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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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