Hello, My team is starting our first Scrum cycle. Daily stand-up meetings are required, as of today. My question is, what is your time limit on individual speaking in a daily stand-up meeting? How long should one person speak? Does your team have time limits on daily stand-up speaking? ...
Is the Nokia Scrum test available online? I could find link to the modified Scrum test by Jeff Sutherland but unable to locate the link to original Scrum test by Nokia. ...
I'm interested to see how other people have handled scheduling the various scrum meetings (standup, sprint planning, estimation, retrospective, etc.) but none of the books I've read on Scrum include any template calendars for 2 or 3 week sprints. There are lots of recommendations like standup should be first thing in the morning, you s...
One of the challenges with Scrum is how to fit QA into the process. Sure, QA works with the developers on each individual user story during the Sprint, but what about giving QA time with the fully completed sprint to do a full regression and load test before releasing into production? I've seen 2 approaches: launch into production on ...
The book User Stories Applied contains single page discussing Personas. The definition of persona from the book is: A persona is imaginary representation of a user role. It futher discuss definition of the persona: Creating personas requires more than just adding a name to a user role. A persona should be described suff...
How to conclude whether Scrum model fits for a company or not? How long will it take to see the effect for a company of size 100 (employees)? Will it effect in company's profit directly? How to calculate profit or loss of a company after agile implementation? ...
Scrum development is based on listing user stories and implementing them in during sprints. That approach - focusing on actual goals of the end product - definitely has its virtues, but what bugs me is that it doesn't advocate creating any generic/reusable code in the process, and actually I feel like it advocates hacking. For example, i...
Our code sucks. Actually, let me clarify that. Our old code sucks. It's difficult to debug and is full of abstractions that few people understand or even remember. Just yesterday I spent an hour debugging in an area that I've worked for over a year and found myself thinking, "Wow, this is really painful." It's not anyone's fault - I...
We are in the process of developing an new product and implementing Agile, specifically Scrum. Our first sprint was planned conservatively, but we are going to miss our target by quite a bit. The main cause being interuptions and new clients throwing in last minute requirements that we had stop and react to. To be able to help identify...
We're having trouble incorporating certain types of tasks into our product and sprint backlogs: Meetings with clients Training and knowledge-sharing Administrative tasks Some of these aren't directly related to the project, so it's easy to put them aside and refer to them as administrative overhead (thereby reducing the doable story ...
My understanding so far: (please correct me if I'm wrong) Ideally, COS are specified early by the product owner in the Sprint planning, facilitating a conversation. They can be considered an abstract definition that will form the base of the Acceptance Criteria for the user story or the feature. Acceptance Criteria are developed by th...
I work at a small service based company where we are starting to implement Scrum practices, and we are also starting to use JIRA with greenhopper for issue tracking. Our team has defined "done" as: coded unit tested integration tested peer reviewed qa tested documentation updated I'm trying to figure out whether this should be done...
I'm looking for light weight, free and installable scrum meeting minutes collaboration tool. Twiki seems pretty heavy weight for just this purpose. I've seen several other SO threads but they all mainly focus on 'complete' Agile/Scrum management. I'm just looking for a meeting minutes collaboration tool. Thanks. ...
Hi, The company I work for is currently looking to move from traditional waterfall into Scrum for development. We are in the process of slowly adopting what practices we can without fully making the move (we still have much to learn before we can fully move on over!). One of the things we want to implement now, before making the full s...
How significant are the differences between Visual Studio Scrum 1.0 & MSF for Agile Software Development v5.0 process templates? Has anyone used one over the other? We are currently using external tools (TRAC) for implementing Scrum in our development process, since MS came up with additional process guidance in TFS2010, these 2 things...
In a Scrum or Agile team is it advisable for a Product Owner to be involved in more than one product? Is it good to have a Product Owner for the Enterprise System and "sub" Product Owners for the components of that system? i.e. In a Retailer would you have a PO for the enterprise system that drives "sub" PO's for say Retail, Supply Chain...
What would you recommend in place of a standup, if there are many people working remotely at very different working hours? Is there any software for - let's say - remote standup, where everyone would write the same things that he or she would say at a normal standup? ...
This page talks about a Sprint Work Item in the Scrum Template in TFS/VS2010. However, I cannot figure out how to create a Sprint Work Item. What is the menu option I'm supposed to click? Where do I find this Sprint Work Item? ...
My company want to develop an online multitouch scrumboard for our scrumteams. We are still in doubt between flex and silverlight as platform for the application. (don't want to fire a hole new flex vs. silverlight discussion again) Installation rate & platform independence are not critical to us, because it's just for teammembers and on...
I'm a developer working in a small team with another developer and a QA who is split across 5 projects and I've recently been given the title of Scrum Master. I've a few questions/issues which I was wondering if I could get a hand with: I've not found any good central place for information on my new role, can anyone point me in the ri...