Is there a Scrum plugin for the Roundup Issue Tracker similar to Agilo for Trac? I realize that Roundup is an issue tracking system, whereas Trac is designed to be an integrated project management, SCM, and issue tracker. Therefore, maybe a better question would be—Is anyone aware of a, preferably Python based, Scrum tool to use in conju...
Is PMBOK more for after implementing software is built, delivering it to the customer while Agile or Scrum is more for building the software in the first place? Just trying to understand. Thank you. EDIT: My main concern is the PMBOK. They use it a lot where I work but not for development (they implement with it.) They don't develo...
Just wondering if any of you use agile with scrum for game development. How much do you deviate from it? I am particularly interested in how much it affects your game design document. To me it seems, contrary to what I have read, you need some kind of GDD, just not as detailed because that would be taken care of by the backlogs. Than...
I struggle on creating good visualization/tracking for my scrum project and are therefore considering several alternatives. One interesting concept is Story Mapping. Do you have any input on using a story map instead of a flat backlog? ...
Not looking really for a book. I have seen lots of references and links to them. I can't buy one right now. I have been reading online, watching videos, etc. One thing so far I don't get. What comes between the vision (solution to the problem) and the product backlog. From what I read, I think it is user stories but I am not sure. ...
Let's say I have my vision and now my product backlog of items. That part is in writing and ready to be used. I am about to create my sprint(s). I am curious. When does a programming team sit down and say "let's use this platform, this framework, and language" and things like "We need a class here," or "I see a way we can use an Inte...
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 environment). Previously I’ve included these activities within the task breakout of a product backlog item but the effort tends to get lost amongst other task...
Just to clarify - I'm talking about a Scrum or Extreme Programming Team here not the old-fashioned command-and-control team from the waterfall era. These are what Fred Brooks would call have called "democratic teams" in the 1970's and what Scrum people today call "self-organizing teams". ... one of the most difficult things to deal w...
I am learning to create features and user stories and was reading this thread: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1707820/what-is-the-difference-between-a-user-story-and-a-feature-in-agile-terminology But I'm not sure how it helps here. Say I'm writing a tetris game and I want it to be in color. How would I write that? Feature: gam...
Having used "days" as the unit for estimation of tasks in Scrum I find it hard to change to using Story Points. I believe story points should be used as they are more comparable to each other - being less dependent on the qualifications of whoever addresses the task etc. However, it isn't easy to make a team start using Story Points when...
I would like to know which is the "best" book to get started learning about SCRUM. This is a poll, so one book per answer, please. ...
I work on an agile project using Scrum. Sprints have come and gone and we have fulfilled milestones successfully. The system works well enough to meet the current customer requirements. However, we are left with a system in serious need of refactoring, as much of the development was performed with little eye on the future (instead the...
Right now, my project is slightly requirements starved; the project managers can't get good requirements as fast as we can build them, so we're being less efficient than we probably could be. How many developers per project manager makes for a good balance? ...
Hi What is the diff between Conchango and the builtin agile template in TFS 2010. Any recommendations ? Thanks ...
We're trying to switch to Scrum as our development process but we're not sure how to implement it in the best way possible. We also don't want to pay for expensive software tools until we get scrum working and get positive results. How can we implement scrum using a whiteboard without asking people to write down their time on the board...
Summary We are start up and we provide software development services. We develop windows, web, services and mobile applications. We were aware of agile and we are scrum certified developers . We do user story based estimation and task planning. No issues. Issue We are approached by many small customers. Customers says very high level...
I'm currently involved in a scrum-ban (mixture of SCRUM and kanban) team where we have a wide range of developer ability levels. I'm referring to "developer ability level" in the common senses of the term, i.e. time taken to write working and maintainable code combined with communication/teamwork skills combined with general design skill...
I am looking for a Kanban solution that I can host on my own server. Windows or *nux, it doesn't matter. Just would like something that I could host on my server and get a nice user experience. I saw this question that has a lot of good resources, but only Digibord is down-loadable and web based. I haven't tried it out yet, but figur...
Which organisations are best suited for use of Scrum methodology and why? ...
We use Scrum. We are experiencing problems during sprints when we find the user stories are not sufficiently granular to capture the effort required to complete the sprint. In particular, we find that we are supplied with UI wireframes that contain much more complexity than the original stories would have implied (e.g. functionality dup...