hi, we have started to work in scrum methodology, and i always get me development be disconnected from the time frames we need to align. how you make your team members to be aware of the time they have committed to perform each coding task? how do you make them aware of the general time frame i.e. releases etc are there any softwar...
I have a TargetProcess machine, and my developers keep committing code to SVN. How can I have TP automatically group builds so that I can know which bugs, were committed during which builds? Thank you. ...
Hi all, today in the university we had a Scrum practicing exercise (simulating the whole process of creating a software solution) and I came up with an issue that couldn't quite understand. Let's say we've had defined our stories and give them a proper prioritization. And there is a story with very little priority... it's going to be do...
We're about to start with some projects based on Scrum. The duration of a sprint is two weeks. But most likely, the customers are not able to attend the final presentation of each sprint, due to distance or busy schedules (it's for a school project, so the stakes aren't that high) How should we handle that best? ...
Our scrum team of three developers has a dedicated tester. At the moment the tester is ostensibly waiting for something to test for most of the first week of our 2-week sprint. We typically do our first release of the sprint deliverable around the Thurs or Fri of sprint week 1. At this point our tester can "test" the embryonic software. ...
In a scrum team, how important is it to complete a single story before moving on? Our scrum master is fairly dogmatic about bringing a single story to completion before moving on. I can see that development would appear to be more "controlled" in this scenario, plus the scrum master would have a very accurate picture of what team member...
Hi everyone I've been fiddling with Redmine in the past few days and not 100% happy with the way it organises tasks etc. I need a open source PHP based solution that is like Redmine or even VersionOne to assist our small team of 3 developers with project management. We basically use Scrum, and would love to be able to create projects,...
Can anyone recommend a good Scrum application for Mac OS X? Basically, I need: product and sprint backlog tracking story cards burndown chart support If there are web-based alternatives, those work too. Thanks! ...
I'm looking for an Application Lifecycle Management tool for a team with about 15 employees. It should provide the following features: General Multi-user network system dashboard for each user should be suitable for Scrum multiple projects Issue tracker separation of bugs, enhancements and new features Issues should have: category...
We are trying to convert an organization to Agile software development (TDD, Continuous integration, pair programming and code reviews, Scrum, Refactoring). One "selling point" that someone proposed is to advise people from a career point of view that Agile software development, whether today, tomorrow or some point in the future, will...
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 work on by one or two developers with the developers spending a reasonable amount of time working on one part of the application before moving to the next task. ...
What do you think about the adoption of quality assurance in a software house that uses SCRUM as Agile methodology? Could they live together? EDIT: Pheraps I made a mistake using the term "quality assurance". With that, I mean making documentation to describe what the software will do. In an Agile methodology I think that this can't liv...
Possible Duplicates: Scrum Software Recommendations for project management software for Scrum I checked wikipedia, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scrum_(development) But I am still looking for some insight from the genius minds using SO. I installed Microsoft Project 2010, and was assuming that it would have some template/plu...
If everything in scrum is all about functional things that a user can see is there really any place for refactoring code unrelated to any new functional requirements? ...
Hi, can anyone comment on whether scrum works for testing projects? Meaning if my company gets a testing project can I implement scrum in it? ...
In Scrum it's a good idea to test frequently when iteration is finished at customer. But the question is what kind of test should I use when some of the prototype is done with customer? In my knowledge Acceptance test is ok when all the iteration is done - but not some part of it. Examples for the test plan would be helpful ...
How do you handle bug duplicates in tfs with scrum template? Do you use the state "delete" or do you first set the bug to "in progress"? ...
Given that the tasks in a specific sprint will not divide perfectly into the team, and all finish on the same date, what do you do to keep everyone working as the sprint moves into its final stages? Inevitably it seems like there will be one or two people freed-up. If all the other tasks are done-done, and the remaining tasks are alrea...
I work on a small Agile development team which is part of a large, non-agile thinking corporation. Currently, we practise Scrum and occasionally, we exceed our sprint commitment. My question is, how do you handle burn down charts when you have exceeded your sprint commitment? I can think of two options: Extend the y-axis in the nega...
So we start Scrum today and start going over story points estimates. The first story that comes up is a new screen that needs to be developed. It has 1 sentence to describe the screen and 3 user acceptance tests. This starts a fight between the development team and the product owner. Product owner says that stories do not need to be ...