I am a trainee in development sector. My Boss says that i should be an agile programmer. I went through through the net and found some interesting things about agile programming. Being a newbee how should I start with agile? What should be my first step in Agile programming? At present I am in pair programming. But it's not exactly pai...
Is there a solution I have missed? I would prefer a open source tool, not just a 1-5-developer free plan (so not BaseCamp, Mingle, Jira/Greenhopper). And it has to run on both windows and linux (so no ScrumDesk or TargetProcess). It has to support agile development process - user stories, iterations, point estimates, tasks etc. What i r...
I hope the title says it all - I can't edit priority for a user story. Details didn't show it at all, and when I tried to edit user story using Excel - it said column is readonly:( ...
What's stack rank mean for a work item in Team Foundation Server 2010? Is it a user characteristic of some kind? ...
I have a small (5 people) team of developers working in a bunch of projects right now. How can I use some agile/extreme methodologies to keep an organized shop that always delivers projects in time ? ...
Hi, Lately I've been a lot into agile methodologies. Some papers I've read at Martin Fowler's website looked thoroughly unflawed to me to say the least, and I was wondering what agile practices are most suited to game development, particularly for small-budget, small-sized and inexperienced team projects (bold because it's really import...
Hello, We are currently utilising an agile environment in work. One of my tasks involve setting up a release timetable. A part of this is providing a time frame of how long a project would take to go from a development environment, to staging and then live. I have conflicting thoughts regarding whether such a timetable needs to be done...
I've started using Pivotal Tracker and really enjoy it. I've also started looking at Lighthouse. Is there any value in using both systems with Tracker's Lighthouse integration? Should I sync everything from Lighthouse to Pivotal or keep bugs separate in Lighthouse? ...
I want to evaluate AgileZen, but I was wondering if I could upload my existing backlog from TFS into their system. I planned to export my backlog into Excel, and then save as a CSV or something. Is there a way for Agile Zen to upload a CSV or other format? ...
Would you say the 2 roles are analagous? Ie the scrum master doesn't fly the planes (code the app) himself, he makes sure that the pilots are flying (coding them) correctly and is responsible for making sure they land (sign off) correctly. He co-ordinates his planes (programmers) so that each is flying in their own airspace and not cra...
What tasks that can be included and tracked as work items in the Sprint Backlog? Can Analysis, Review and Unit Testing (of a user story) be included or can only core Coding tasks be included and tracked in the Sprint backlog? Basically I am breaking down user stories into technical tasks for updating the Sprint backlog and would like t...
I remember reading an article stating that someone had measured project performance under Agile (or maybe just TDD?) and found that it accomplished projects more efficiently than its alternatives. Does anyone know where I can find that, or a similar article? ...
I'm working through the creation of an initial set of user stories for a new project, and I'm using MSF Agile for the first time. I've got about 100 user stories, and I've assigned them all to areas and iterations, but the next step for me is assigning all of their Risk, Story Points, and Stack Rank values. However, I find that I'm assig...
I'm very positive towards agile development, and have worked on agile projects on and off for about 13 years. But I have a concern that I've never really been able to address. It doesn't always seem to manifest, but it has bitten me a few times. Agile seems to be in some sense a 'greedy algorithm'. Start with the highest value story, op...
as now a days the main focus of software developers is to deliver the functionality upto the satisfaction of the customer in very much short time that requires a short but hybrid team well communication between them and also parallel working on different phases of development., after focusing all of this is Agile the best practice or a...
How do you create the Rule to enforce Work Item association on check-in? (TFS2010 Agile 5.0) ...