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How can Scrum be adapted to an academic environment?
I'm currently working with a professor at my university to develop new curricula for the Software Engineering and Capstone Design courses offered in my college.
Up until recently, both courses used ...
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Does it make me a bad programmer if I dislike the Agile methodology? [closed]
I like the small iterations. I like the unit tests. I like code review. What I don't like is the starting off with little or no documentation. Am I alone in this? Do I simply have a ...
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Is it a good idea to write requirements specifications by stories?
We're using agile methods in my current project at the moment, and we have heaps of stories like these:
As an assistant, I want to pay a customer a refund so that they can
get some money when they ...
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How to use unit tests as a source of information?
A colleague of mine was one a seminar about agile development, where he heard it is possible to use unit tests as a technical documentation. Something like using unit tests as example how to use the ...
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4answers
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Should all developers on a team have equal role/responsibility in writing and updating software design documents
I've asked a very similar question few days ago, but because I presented too much of my company's current situation, most answers focused completely on something that I wasn't looking to answer. So I ...
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Is an architecture description document a violation of the DRY Principle?
The DRY Principle (Don't Repeat Yourself) states that "every piece of knowledge must have a single, unambiguous, authoritative representation within a system." Most of the time this refers to code, ...
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1answer
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How to change documentation expectations from “risk management” to a “project risk”
We are trying to introduce some agile concepts to the business folks but one of our biggest hurdles is their expectations for documentation - the quantity, the authorship/ownership of the documents, ...
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2answers
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How do you track existing requirements over time?
I'm a software engineer working on a complex, ongoing website. It has a lot of moving parts and a small team of UI designers and business folks adding new features and tweaking old ones. Over the last ...
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4answers
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Are High Level Design and Low Level Design documents needed to follow Agile development process?
Our team is developing a project using an Agile development process. All of our requirements are converted into product backlog items and task are broken down based on that. One of my team member ...
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How do you balance documentation requirements with Agile developments
In our development group there is currently discussions around agile and waterfal methodology. No-one has any practical experience with agile, but we are doing some reading.
The agile manifesto ...
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Support / Maintenance documentation for development team
I'm working in the Development dept (around 40 developers) for a large E-Commerce company. We've grown quickly but have not evolved very well in the field of documenting our work. We work with an ...
