scrum Questions

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I have now witnessed two companies move to agile development with Scrum. In both cases the standard of coding was good enough when each part of the application was only being worked on by o...
Leandraleandre asked 3/3, 2010 at 17:13

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I'm starting a project with a team and we're using SCRUM as methodology. It's my first time with SCRUM. We have listed our functionalities and we made our stories, (user stories and technical...
Tuberosity asked 7/2, 2011 at 0:52

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From this link I assert that a feature is a set of backlog items, but what is an epic supposed to be?
Keating asked 1/6, 2015 at 8:44

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I'm not a great fan of duplicating effort. I do find, however, that there are benefits to tracking agile iteration progress on both a physical card wall and an online "calculator" (Excel, som...
Apportion asked 16/10, 2008 at 3:29

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We have a team of around 10 developers working on a new product. We have split this product into two team projects on Visual Studio Online. Developers can work on both projects during any one spri...
Farmann asked 5/5, 2015 at 6:31

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I work at a small service based company where we are starting to implement Scrum practices, and we are also starting to use JIRA with greenhopper for issue tracking. Our team has defined "don...
Myrtie asked 15/9, 2010 at 19:39

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In Scrum, it is obvious that we could produce a demo after each sprint. I don't know how to produce demos in Kanban since it doesn't has the sprint concept (I may be wrong). Would you pleas...
Thousandth asked 9/8, 2010 at 0:33

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I am attempting to manage my projects a little better so I am looking at attempting to apply some of (eventually all) the features of scrum. Looking at user stories specifically the high lev...
Boelter asked 10/11, 2009 at 10:50

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I have on my project many PBIs and each PBI has tasks with remaining work filled in. I have finished some of my tasks, others are not started and others are in progress. However, the burndown char...
Serrato asked 6/1, 2015 at 14:30

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The main thing I'm trying to answer is this: What are the distinguishing features between a "new feature" and a "product enhancement" when it comes to software development? Specifically, when...
Metathesize asked 19/12, 2014 at 19:18

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Every time a new developer joins the team or the computer a developer is using changes, the developer needs to do lots of work to setup the local development environment to make the current p...
Apia asked 8/5, 2009 at 11:10

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We have just started doing scrum at my company. We are spending a bit of time estimating Effort using planning poker and then when the detailed tasks are worked out a time estimate is put on ...
Latrena asked 23/2, 2012 at 5:58

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I'm looking for a work-item-tracking/bug-tracking system (or JIRA plugin, or TFS plugin, or...) which makes it easy to stack-rank work items without having to manually assign priority values to eac...
Clark asked 8/2, 2011 at 3:2

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I know slightly close questions have been asked before but this question is a bit different. We are a start-up company with a very limited budget and we are looking for a completely free Agi...
Stripe asked 20/11, 2013 at 7:56

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Let’s say product X is worth 10 story points. Development starts in sprint Y, but is not completed in time. What do you with the story points when calculating sprint Y’s velocity? Would you:...
Scorecard asked 12/2, 2009 at 4:10

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What do you do if members of your team are not cooperative during scrum meetings? They either provide a very high level definition of what they are currently working on, ("working on feature ...
Bildungsroman asked 16/9, 2008 at 10:29

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Just wondering how others out there are managing tasks not directly related to fulfilling user stories such as server configuration and application deployment (in a web application environmen...
Lipkin asked 8/1, 2010 at 2:44

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I'm curious as to what other people use for physical Kanban/Scrum boards in their companies. I appreciate that because of sensitive business information you may not be able to provide a photo...
Kata asked 27/11, 2009 at 6:30

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I am trying to get my head around how story points are assigned to sub tasks and how the story points are managed in Jira. I have a user story which we have estimated at 25 points. A develo...
Fortis asked 19/1, 2014 at 3:24

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How to move a team from waterfall development model to scrum model? What all are the steps that one need to follow to achieve a smooth transition. What would be the acceptance curve and will ...
Bondman asked 14/2, 2011 at 11:59

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I'm starting to learn about Scrum, and I'm interested in trying it out with our development team. I have a lot of questions about it...but my biggest mental roadblock is in the actual graphic...
Aldine asked 18/3, 2009 at 15:42

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I'm using Visual Studio Team Services (previously Team Foundation Service, not Team Foundation Server) and I need to migrate a team project process template from Agile to Scrum. Doe anyone know ho...
Someway asked 18/11, 2013 at 16:15

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This set of questions tries to elicit a best practice answer on how to setup TFS 2012 Areas and Iterations with Scrum 2. Context: We've been using Team System since TFS 2005 and had initially crea...
Sediment asked 30/11, 2012 at 4:12

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I work within an agile team. We have a released product and we are still working towards a future release. Every sprint we receive anywhere from 0 to 5 tickets to fix bugs in the released...
Larson asked 27/9, 2013 at 15:58

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I would like to modify the Burndown chart in TFS 2012's Scrum 2.0 Template so that weekends no longer show. I've already looked at this article, but unfortunately the solution listed there doesn't ...
Dungdungan asked 11/2, 2013 at 18:46

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