Agile development practice consisting of having a short cycle known as a sprint to build functionality. Product owners prioritize a list of work items known as a backlog that the team selects which items to commit to finishing during a sprint. Daily stand-up meetings called scrums are held and ...
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How to learn & introduce scrum in small startup?
In a few months, a friend will establish his startup software company, and I will be the software architect with one additional developer. Though we have no real day-to-day experience with agile ...
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Agile Tools For Handling Multiple Projects
Currently I'm leading our agile team in an iteration manager role as well as doing my regular dev work. One of the difficulties I'm facing as an IM is tracking burn-down/burn-up; not because I can't ...
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How to stop gold-plating and just be content to release working developments [closed]
The development team that I'm a member of has recently adapted to work according to Agile practices. This has personally highlighted the fact that I can't stop myself gold-plating code (and ...
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Whats the best way to progress your career as a Web Developer to a Scrum Master? [closed]
I am currently working as a ASP.NET MVC C# Web Developer I am looking into what direction to take my career.
Would becoming a certified Scrum Master Help? I would ideally want to do things where I ...
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Scrum - real life example? [closed]
I'm starting with scrum and saw many partial examples on books and tutorials, but when try to use scrum in the real life, it's not easy to write the user stories and create the product backlog. I want ...
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Dealing with selfish team member(s) [closed]
My team is facing a difficult quandary, a couple of team members are essentially selfish (not to be confused with dominant!) and are cherry-picking stories/tasks that will give them the most ...
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Reasons for Pair Programming [closed]
Possible Duplicate:
Pair Programming: Pros and Cons
I've worked in a few shops where management has passed the idea of pair programming either to me or another manager/developer, and I ...
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Is a scrum sprint backlog ordered?
Currently, Wikipedia Scrum Article defines "Sprint Backlog" as:
A prioritized list of tasks to be completed during the sprint.
It is my understanding that the "Product Backlog" is a prioritized ...
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is SCRUM useful for the project's success? [closed]
I work for a company as a Project Manager. My company want us to get training in SCRUM and is sponsoring the training. So is SCRUM useful for the project's success?
Should I go for the SCRUM ...
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Does a mature agile team requires any management?
After a recent heated debate over Scrum, I realized my problem is that I think of management as a quite unnecessary and redundant activity in a fully agile team. I believe a mature Agile team does not ...
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Spending a good fortune on a certificate holding Scrum Master or a Veteran XP coach?
There is a very prestigious company that delivers a well-sold software about financial systems. It has more that 20 years of history, and is staffed with about 20 programmers and much larger number ...
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Is agile about development or management?
On a debate over what Scrum is all about, I found that perhaps I totally misunderstood the agile thing. It appears to me that Scrum (which is certainly considered an Agile process) is all about ...
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In Scrum, should you split up the backlog in a functional backlog and a technical backlog or not?
In our Scrum teams we use a backlog, which mostly contains functional topics, but also sometimes contains technical topics. The advantage of having 1 backlog is that it becomes easy to choose the ...
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How to integrate technical line/functional manager into Scrum team?
We have recently had a new line manager start to manage our Scrum team. He is immensely experienced in our field but is relatively inexperienced at Agile/Scrum. He has extensive technical expertise in ...
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QA - Developer communication
I am a developer and have worked at this company 4~5 years by now.
We have been practicing scrum for about 2 years.
I think, I have been worked well with QAs.
I believe QAs/developers/technical ...
