I'm interested in possibly using Scrum with my development team (yes, I know it'll be a little painful to transition over to it). However, we don't have Team System and probably can't currently afford to get it immediately. What are some possible tools for getting a team up and running on Scrum in a .NET/Visual Studio environment withou...
My company has tried to adopt the scrum methodology with mixed success. Theses are some areas where we've had issues. How do you handle these? Tracking requirements from Product Marketing through to product. We're trying out JIRA to track all requirements individually and assigning a release to each one as it is picked for implemen...
In an agile (scrum) environment, how do you get product management to create small enough backlog items or stories without having them do all the design, which is not their specialty? In other words, how do you separate the what (business requirements) from the how (design) in agile development? ...
Our organisation uses PRINCE2 for every project we run; IT is large part of our organisation but we're not a software house. Whilst I appreciate PRINCE2 is a great method of running projects, and, we've had a lot of success with it, I feel it's fairly high level for the nitty-gritty of building software. Is it unheard of to run an AGILE...
We are a small team of 3 developers (2 experienced but new to this particular business sector) developing a functionally complex product. We're using Scrum and have a demo at the end of each sprint. Its clear that the functional team have plenty of ideas but these are not well communicated to the development team and the demo poses mo...
We are in the process of implemeting SCRUM, however, there's some resistence from managment, and I thought it'd be a good idea to start implementing some practices and add more incrementally, to avoid the initial rejection. How do you suggest I start? ...
I'm the second dev and a recent hire here at a PHP/MySQL shop. I was hired mostly due to my experience in wrangling some sort of process out of a chaotic mess. At least, that's what I did at my last company. ;) Since I've been here (a few months now), I've brought on board my boss, my product manager and several other key figures (But...
What tools for managing Scrum would you recommend? ...
Need some advice on working out the team velocity for a sprint. Our team normally consists of about 4 developers and 2 testers. The scrum master insists that every team member should contribute equally to the velocity calculation i.e. we should not distinguish between developers and testers when working out how much we can do in a sprin...
In your experience (anecdotal or otherwise), what are some effective ways to introduce Agile into a non-Agile organization or company? UPDATED: Can anyone speak to cases where you tried to introduce Agile but you were "shot down"? Also, do you now have a retrospective understanding why you were "shot down"? ...
This seems to be a point of contention where I work. Some complain about the lack of verification structure in Scrum projects, while Scrum purists say it's not what Scrum is about. Both sides bring up great points, but I would like to see what people outside my circle say about the subject. What are your thoughts? Why? ...
I've been doing scrum with a team for a while, but things seem messy for whatever reasons. I've been thinking on how they can be changed and have a couple of questions that would like to raise here. First, what should be the role of testers, designers and non-developers as a whole in the scrum process? If they are equal to other team mem...
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 x"), or go into extremely irrelevant details, in spite of being well educated in SCRUM methodology. This causes the scrum meeting to be ineffective ...
I want to setup a Trac server to support my developer team work along with Bitten as a Continuous Integration server. We are using the Scrum development process. What are the Trac's plugins, hacks, macros or configurations I could use to fit my team needs ? ...
What is the best resource for learning Scrum? ...
Seriously, is this any help with getting your team to understand and comprehend the practice? Scrum Game ...
I do a lot of work as an architect with offshore teams and some of these teams use Scrum development practices in their purest form. I'm finding problems when developers are spread so far apart with pure scrum and wondered if anyone has solutions. 80% development is remote but some team members are US side. The biggest issue is a lack ...
I think that Scrum Master role is not a full time job for most mature scrum teams. A team that is running together for a few month can be fine with a Scrum Master that is also a team member since they know and understand the methodology and most of their concerns/questions were answered. Even at Jeff Sutherland's company, Patient Keepe...
We have been using Scrum for around 9 months and it has largely been successful. However our burndown charts rarely look like the 'model' charts, instead resembling more of a terrifying rollercoaster ride with some vomit inducing climbs and drops. To try and combat this we are spending more time before the sprint prototyping and designi...
I'm hoping the SO crowd can help me expand my definitions of methodology buzzwords such as SCRUM, Agile, XP, Waterfall, etc, and give some enlightenment as to which approach is the best. If there's some specific book or web page that really captures your philosophy on constructing software with teams of programmers, please indicate it. ...