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 should I break this user story into tasks
I am trying to understand how to create user stories and tasks. I have read articles stating that you should create small user stories and they should be a "vertical slice" of functionality instead of ...
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How to express what do do when error occurs in a user story?
How do you express what to do when error occurs in a user story? Should the response to what happen on errors be in a task of the original user story, or should I create another user story that is ...
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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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Agile Story Pointing - Shared Resources
I'm running a team that takes care of 3 products that are distinct in language/product type so that 2 out of 6 developers I manage are only ever locked to coding on 2 of the products (thick client ...
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Should every member of scrum team be universal? [closed]
We have a scrum team where there are 5 developers, 2 automated testers, 1 manual tester. Our tasks are completely independent.
Shouldn't there be 8 people, every one should be able to do every task: ...
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In Agile, should I create a code-review task?
My team uses Agile as a development approach. Currently, each task has four states which are todo, in progress, testing, and done.
We've just started doing code reviews, and I wonder if I need to ...
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Alternatives for Agile Scrum [closed]
We started following the Agile Scrum methodology and we have completed about 10 sprints.
One observation I had is that not all in the team are taking up the responsibilities of completing the tasks ...
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Is randomly refactoring code allowed in scrum
Background
My team uses scrum
I have currently no task assigned
There are no more pending task in the backlog
Today is Labor Day for my client.
Not having many things to do today I wanted to start ...
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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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How to write a user story specific to tasks in this case [duplicate]
We have planned to take up an user story say
As a player I want to view the game map to know current standings of my team
The sprint is for two weeks. We will be able to complete only HTML in ...
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Scrum: How inclusive is enough with your client? [closed]
I work in a very small team and we're about to begin implementing Scrum. As we're such a small team I'll have direct and frequent access to the clients. I'll be fulfilling multiple roles. I feel I ...
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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 i ...
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Point estimates scale skewed
When using planning poker for estimates, we've ended up with effectively a non-linear points scale. By that I mean that point value is inconsistent for one-pointers and, say, eight-pointers. Couple ...
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Managing 'done' but not releasable code in TFS
I am working in an organisation with 11 scrum teams developing on the same code base. Currently, all development is done in trunk, and at the end of a sprint everything MUST be releasable, or it must ...
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Scrum vs. Agile vs. CMMI [closed]
I am pushing my project over to Visual Studio Online in order to have some source control. I am developing this project by myself. I have never used Scrum, Agile, nor CMMI before, and the detailed ...
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Changing story-point estimates after closing the story
In a running multi-year multi-team project there is a set of stories that have been fully estimated and closed, having fulfilled the definition of done. Time has progressed and possibilities in Jira ...
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How do you deal with being behind on a task? [closed]
I have a question for you guys. Say, you're given a task as an item in a product backlog. Say, you have a deliverable that's due the following day. If you're behind on the task compared to when you ...
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Split work item into prototype and main work item?
During grooming, we usually have work items which get approved based upon the team understanding that what needs to be done? The product owner does not discuss the details of how it will be done and ...
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why the terms used in Scrum are so strange?
I'm not a native English speaker, currently I'm reading some articles about Scrum.
I was wondering if the English terms used in Scrum seem strange to you?
For example,
backlog instead of todo;
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Coding and testing in the same sprint
How is testing handled within the same sprint as coding, if all or most of the coding is not done until the end of the sprint? (I'm referring to the "soup-to-nuts" development and testing of a single ...
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Responsibility for delegation of stories in agile
I've recently worked on a project where the Team lead was commenting he needed to figure out which stories we are going to be working on in a scrum. It was my understanding that stories are ...
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Enforcing organizational standards for software in Scrum
Organizations, especially organizations with a recognized brand, have various standards for software. This includes things like security, usability, code quality and readability, UI design, test ...
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User Story or User Stories for this specific requirement
I have to write a user story for a requirement that involves passing search filters to the same URI and retrieving corresponding results.
I have 5 filters.
I plan to write 5 different stories of ...
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Reporting defects in Agile
I am working in sprint. At the end of sprint I need to send a defect report per sprint. Considering the below scenario please let me know your views.
Two teams(A & B) are working at different ...
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Follow the deadlines vs Do it right [duplicate]
I have been given a huge task of migrating few functionalities from jQuery to AngularJS. I have been pretty good at Angular by now. But I want to dive deep and create futuristic, sound architecture. ...
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Bug fixing in Scrum, at the end of the project
We have a project that is reaching a deadline for the final production release. It's a fixed price project and up till now we've managed to work in 2 week iterations, doing regular releases to our ...
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How to compute scrum burndown chart when projects overlap?
In my team we have a multiple projects, some short term and some long term. The team is required to deliver these projects on different dates and the effort to deliver these is run in parallel with ...
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Should a user story be shared between developers? [closed]
I commonly see stories that have back-end and front-end development. For example, consider a large dialog with a few tables and some dynamic controls. We'll make several stories (maybe one for each ...
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how can we have a person to allot and track tasks in agile development
I understand that Agile team should be self organized and self driven,
but is there a provision that I can have someone who will allot tasks to developers and ensure that all user stories will be ...
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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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Fixing bugs generated by another team
I'm facing the following situation:
There are 2 different teams working on the same project using Scrum, and every now and then, bugs related to user stories developed by team "A" are being assigned ...
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What are some effective ways of making scrum more dynamic earlier in a sprint?
My team does 2-week sprints, and the trend we've identified (which we want to move away from) is that our daily standup scrums are relatively straightforward early in the sprint, but then transform ...
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Product Owner Role in Scrum
I am learning about Agile Methodology i.e. Scrum.
I have a very basic knowledge of Scrum. Please guide following:
What is role of Product Owner in daily Scrum, if he/she is part of this meeting?
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Planning poker with visually impaired colleague
At the office we just got a new colleague who is visually impaired.
I'm in charge of organizing the planning poker sessions and the new colleague must participate as a member of the team. We have ...
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Scrum Daily meeting: Punctuality over Full team presence?
My understanding is that a Daily Scrum meeting should be very quick, hosted in a friendly way and that it requires all the team members present. Because it is objective is to have everyone up to date ...
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What should I do when I get stuck with a task for so long?
My team are using Scrum and we are new to this methodology. I use Essential Scrum as our guideline but I haven't finished it yet. On a chapter, it says the team should focus on idle tasks, not idle ...
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What is the role of the lead developer in an agile team?
In a non-agile development team a lead developer generally:
Sets the standard (coding and otherwise)
Researches new technologies for the team
Sets the technical direction for the team
Has the final ...
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How to measure team productivity over time using consistent story sizes?
How do I measure team productivity over time using consistent story sizes?
To take a simple example, if I can do a story every two days, then I can do five stories in a two-week sprint. By definition ...
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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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Scrum task over estimation
In my current company we're using Scrum with 2 week iterations and a regular planning session.
How planning normally works in our company is that we take a predefined , prioritized (by PO before the ...
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Sprint pressure causes quality issues? [closed]
The burn down chart displays a clear deadline and the progress towards the deadline. When the progress is slow and the completion of the committed work is at risk, people start to get sloppy on design ...
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UX designers working one Sprint ahead
Our UX designers usually have a story in Sprint X that the developers will implement in Sprint X+1 (The UX designers and the devs/testers are on one team). I think this makes sense because if you ...
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How can Scrum be adapted to allow for support obligations?
Scrum's great for new development and proactive tasks. But I've never been sure how to use it when the department's obligations also include analyzing/answering/fixing customer support questions, ...
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How often should a Scrum team meet its Sprint commitment? [closed]
Commitment is a promise, and we all have been taught that you need to keep your promises.
But is it realistic to keep the commitment for each Sprint? Sometimes people get sick, sometimes the ...
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Visual Design implementation timing in Agile
We work in Scrum with the caveat that we don't have a potentially shippable product at the end of each Sprint, instead requiring several hardening/stabilization Sprints before release.
One of the ...
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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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Self-organization during Sprint Planning
During Sprint Planning there are a lot of decisions to be made:
How many PBIs should the team commit to?
Which tasks should constitute each PBI?
How much time should each task take?
With no team ...
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Scrum: how to integrate work done by an overachieving developer out of band?
We have a "typical" SCRUM team and we commit to work for a sprint, and also maintain a backlog. Recently we have run into a problem of trying to integrate/handle the work of an overachieving developer ...
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Scrum: relaxing “done” or using spikes?
Consider what it takes to completely finish a story in our organization.
Demo requirements were met
UI design finalized (layout, styles, fonts, controls, colors, etc...)
User text finalized and ...
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Doing localization each Sprint
We need to support 5 languages for our product. This means that in order to have a potentially shippable product we need to translate all text new to the Sprint to all these languages. It doesn't ...
