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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Is a large increase in velocity realistic in a Scrum environment?
We have an average velocity of 50 story points. Recently my manager has really got into the idea of using velocity as a measure of productivity and as a target. I have been asked to increase it by 40% ...
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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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How can we reduce downtime at the end of an iteration?
Where I work we practice scrum-driven agile with 3-week iterations. Yes, it'd be nice if the iterations were shorter, but changing that isn't an option at the moment.
At the end of the iteration, I ...
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Why do we use story points instead of man days when estimating user stories?
In agile methodologies (e.g. SCRUM), the complexity/effort needed for a user stories are measured in Story points, and story points are used to calculate how many user story a team can take in an ...
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How can we make agile enjoyable for developers that like to personally, independently own large chunks from start to finish
We’re roughly midway through our transition from waterfall to agile using scrum; we’ve changed from large teams in technology/discipline silos to smaller cross-functional teams.
As expected, the ...
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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 unit testing or test-driven development worthwhile?
My team at work is moving to Scrum and other teams are starting to do test-driven development using unit tests and user acceptance tests. I like the UATs, but I'm not sold on unit testing for ...
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How to make sprint planning fun
Not only are our sprint planning meetings not fun, they're downright dreadful.
The meetings are tedious, and boring, and take forever (a day, but it feels like a lot longer).
The developers complain ...
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Daily standups- yea or nay? [closed]
How valuable (or not) do you think daily stand-up meetings are?
If you're not familiar with it, this refers to a daily meeting that is part of Scrum adherents (and some other agile methodologies). ...
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Why and for what reasons developers may not like “daily scrum”?
There are advantages in holding daily scrum, like:
Team get coordinated with each other
Everyone knows what amount of task has been done
Burndown chart gets more and more complete
Task board is ...
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Should a developer also act as a tester?
We're a scrum team of 3 developers, 1 designer, the scrum master, and the product owner. However, we don't have official tester in our team. A problem that is always with us, is that, testing the ...
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Should Agile teams deliver new features daily?
My company is in the midst of a transition from waterfall-style development to Agile/Scrum. Among other things, we're told that the expectation is for us to have new working, testable (by QA) ...
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How do you handle regular latecomers at the stand-up meetings? [closed]
We have our daily stand-up meeting at 8:45 while the workday starts at 8:30.
Even with the 15 minutes slack people keep coming too late, on a regular basis. This results in our meetings being small, ...
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Does SCRUM usually involve massive overtime?
I would like to know if overtime is normal for sprints, or if it is an abuse of this methodology. I feel naive and spineless doing all-nighters if I don't have to.
Question is SCRUM specific. ...
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What tools do you use to manage requests from users? [closed]
I'm drowning in user emails and I'd like to implement a better way to manage all these requests I get and put them in a queue where those people on a team, as well as users, have access to them and ...
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