Let's say that a developer is interested in learning Scrum, but nobody else on the team is interested. I realize that Scrum is made for teams, and the process would have to be modified to fit a single person. Is there any benefit to be gained by the developer trying Scrum, even if the team doesn't? If so, how would the process be modifi...
I was wondering if someone can share their exeprience or point to a study on cost savings realized by adopting Agile (using Srum and XP), over traditional Waterfall. ...
I'm just curious if the community considers it acceptable to use the term "Code Freeze" for situations where we stop development except for testing and fixing bugs. Development Situation We're just finishing up our third and final sprint, which will be followed by a "Code freeze" and 2 weeks of Q/A testing. It is a big release and som...
What are the reporting lines when using SCRUM methodology as compared to a "tranditional" matrix organisation where developers report to development managers, project managers and any other stakeholder at the time? ...
Mostly people say Scrum and Agile interchangeably but what is the difference between Scrum Practice as compared to Agile Practice ? ...
I have been studying and reading about Scrum in the last few days and reading about Spring Planning and tasks, one problem that popped into my mind is how to deal with bugs in Scrum. Henrik Kniberg in his very nice book Scrum and XP from the Trenches lists some ways of dealing with this issue: Product owner prints out the most high pri...
Note : Before asking this question I did an exhaustive search, and found little bits of the answer in various other questions, for example: What is the best resource for learning Scrum? Scrum Process Management - tips, pitfalls, ideas Two questions regarding Scrum However, I feel like this question hasn't been directly addressed (i...
Can Scrum and Project Management live together? Can you take the best of both worlds or will combining these two methods create more chaos? Would Scrum work better with a project manager doing PMO type work and cross function with the product owners and scrum master? I believe that a dedicated PMO would track compliance, artifacts and ...
I work in a team which has been doing the traditional waterfall method of development for many years. Recently, we've been told that future projects are going to be moving towards an agile (particularly Scrum) methodology. It so happens that my project will be one of the first, so we will essentially be guinea pigs for the next few mon...
After investigating a little bit scrum and kanban, I finally read this answer and decided to start using kanban, picking something from scrum (note that I'm working mostly by myself, and I do have read this question and its answers). Now, my question is: which tool would be best to get started? whiteboard and postit agilezen.com JI...
I have been using agile approaches (XP and Scrum) for my projects for several years with great results. But in all cases, all members of the dev team were committed 100% to the project. Now I am faced with doing this when the team is not stable. For instance, one iteration there may be four people working, the next maybe only two or thr...
Hello there, I have been developed all different asp.net project in the last 4 years but never happened to get deep into project management, and now since I am start to work on some projects on my own I think it is time for me to get into learning those methodologies on project management and development. I found agile is very popular a...
When doing agile what are the specific criteria of defining the scope of a user story? What factors should I take into account when defining the scope? Is there any specific formula you use for this purpose? ...
Question: Is Scrum compliant with SAS and Sox? I am new to Scrum and have been a PM most of my career. I understand having the proper documentation for audits relating to SAS/Sox inregards to tradtional PMO. I know that Scrum eliminates much of the PM type of documents and classifies them as waste but I would expect a auditor to look fo...
Currently we use Trac to manage all of our tickets (bugs, enhancements, and new projects). It lacks a nice ability to map out the projects, releases and do time estimations. Is there a good scrum project management system that would integrate with Trac to use the tickets we are already making? ...
I am a .NET developer wanting to build an SaaS based ecommerce system with B2B and CMS features (custom built, ASP.NET MVC preferably or using Dotnetnuke that enables SaaS scenarios). Technologies would be mainly Microsoft's (.NET 3.5, 4.0, Ajax, jQuery, Asp.NET MVC or MVP, SQL Server/MySql, EF 2.0, NHibernate, WCF, WPF, Window mobile 6...
What is a best way to organize many software development projects, interaction with clients, project documentation, sources, emails, knowledge, time tracking, issue and features tracking, support for releases and versions etc. for a small company? For me (and I believe for many others) it is obvious that it must be some sort of web-base...
Hello, I've been learning Scrum and trying a tool called Acunote for use with it. My question is about two fields I have there, for each task. They're "estimate" and "remaining". What unit should I use for those? Do I use Story Points? What about the remaining? For example I have a task that will take 10 units, let's say. I fill the re...
I'm new to Scrum and Agile but wanted to know if I could use this methodology/practice for like a general "Project Management Solution" not just development? Pros/Cons/Suggestions? Any FREE software available to help out with the process? Small user group, about 10 Thanks! ...
We are trying to implement SCRUM with the Microsoft SharePoint Online. Although we can use tasks and issue tracker to suit SPRINTS and iterations and system testing, we are using an excel speadsheet to produce the burndown chart. However, we have to extract all the tasks first, reformat the data, the feed in the chart values. Does anyone...