Referring to this buddy question, I want to know how one can manage specs in Scrum process ? I'm facing this problem while assigning tasks to my team for the sprint. Needless to say - I'm new to Agile/Scrum. Currently, we are using our own specs sheet to map StoryId to SpecId and vice versa. I'm getting the felling that Scrum is more ab...
I'm looking for a team building / training activity for some of my scrum teams. I want something that really illustrates the flexibility that the team has when implementing stories to define the scope and complexity of the feature themselves. Most of the teams have long-term waterfall experience and are used to having a well-defined spec...
Looking for free solution which integrates MS Project Server and SCRUM daily meetings. Any suggestions? ...
There are many scrum tools out there so my question is gonna be more specific. Can be deploy on-site (i.e. not something like Pivotal Tracker) Free =) I am exploring IceScrum and XPlanner+. Any other better options? ...
My team has grown fairly quickly from 1 to 5 over the last year or so and are very interested in changing our development style from Waterfall to a more iterative approach like Scrum. We work for a University and specialize in CRUD web apps for internal customers who are always changing requirements along the way. So, my question is...H...
What is the best way to measure QA in scrum? We have members who typically test and they are measured against how many bugs they find. If they don't find any bugs then they are considered to be doing a bad job. However, it is my understanding that the developers and quality people are considered one in the same. I would think that th...
I work on a huge project. While we program we end up meeting for endless backlog sizing sessions where all the developers sit down with the team and size user stories. Scrum doubters are saying that this process is taking too long and development time is being wasted. My question is how long should it take to size a user story on aver...
If I divide development of a particular feature into multiple stories: First one for a high level design of the feature, Based on first story I create other stories to develop the different stand-alone pieces that compose the feature, Does it mean I'm doing waterfall? Furthermore - if I divide development of the previously identif...
Our team is sometimes finding it a bit confusing and time-consuming to figure out which subversion operations have been perrformed on our different branches in Subversion. Example, when has the Development branch last been merged into the Trunk? When was this particular Tag created, based on what branch etc etc. All of this informati...
How can you stop the dev team from padding their numbers when it comes to creating task times? How is there any motivation for them to do their work if there are no real deadlines and they are just measured against their velocity. Get the job done by this deadline vs Get the job done whenever we will reduce scope, quality or increase...
I would prefer if those who answer this question state whether or not they have experience developing in an Agile Environment or if they are speaking from a theoretical standpoint. Backstory: Let's say there is an opportunistic company that develops technologically innovative products (multi-touch interfaces, speech recognition devices...
What are the top things you have found to be still very relevant from the PMI world for the Agile Scrum way of managing projects? Do you think PMP will be almost useless except in organizations which develop software in waterfall or waterfall v-methodology (practices in Telecoms, Industrial control software domains etc?) ...
I have been working as a .net developer following waterfall model. When working on, say a 12 months project, usually my team follows Analysis, Design, Coding and Testing phases. But when it comes to following Scrum process, I don't really understand How I need to deal with it. Consider a sprint for 4 weeks and our backlog has 10 items, ...
Scrum and agile says that items on the current sprint backlog should be approached in priority order, and one item at a time by the whole team. Practically, that never seems to work for our team. Either the item is too small for all team members to be productive (including taking pairing into account). So we end up perhaps doing two or ...
Hello guys I know pretty well about documenting application requirements with Use cases and modeling a system using Rational Unified Process. But now I would like to know if is there a template or model for documenting system requirements when using Agile methodology like Scrum. Thank you ...
When using Greenhopper with Jira, it is clear that Greenhopper is using the "fixed in version" field in the Jira issues to represent which scrum sprint the issue is being worked on. This in itself is a bit hackish, because an issue can conceivably be worked on in multiple sprints, and because the relationship between an issue and a sprin...
Hi All, I have a question around Agilo. I have downloaded it and installed it on a box with Windows Server 2008 R2. I have ran the run.bat file which runs the server and tested the page on that machine e.g. http://localhost:81/ and everything works fine. My problem is when i try an access the agilo web site from another machine on my...
Is Agile/Scrum the answer? How does Scrum handle this? One Product Owner, One PRoduct Backlog vs Multiple Product Owners and Product Backlogs? How is it working for you? Please share your success failure stories? I am trying to put a process together to manage multiple queues of work ranging from Infrastructure projects, simple featu...
Hello, We are currently interested in implementing CMMI level 2 for our development processes. I've read some documents about CMMI and also Scrum. Personally I'm interested in Scrum as our native development processes because it can be easy for all team members to use (we are just a small team), but I have a few questions: Has anyone...
The numbers used to vote when planning are 0, 0.5, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 20, 40, 100. Is there a meaning when those numbers are chosen? Why don't we just choose 1,2,3,4.. for the sake of simpliness? ...