scrum

What are your experiences with SkinnyBoard?

What are your experiences with SkinnyBoard? ...

Your Scrum definition of Done

While Scrum is easy in theory and hard in practice, I wanted to hear your definition of Done; i.e. what are the gates (unit test, code coverage > 80%, code reviews, load tests, perf.test, functional tests, etc.) your product has to go through before you can label the product "Done" ...

Do you count the hours spent on bug fixes towards the scrum?

HI, I am new to the scrum methodology and looking for some help to get comfortable with the environment and wondering if there needs to be a bucket to track Developers and QA hours spent on deployments and bug fixes and retests. Seems like it could have major impact on the graph. ...

Agile Web/Graphic Design

How do you incorporate web/graphic design tasks (template design, logo design, look-n-feel, etc...) into your agile process (XP/SCRUM)? How do you go about developer/designer pairing, designer stand-up meeting attendance? In the larger sense, can an agile process be applied to web/graphic design? ...

Scrum Restrospectives, who do you share the results with?

I was wondering what are the best practices regarding Scrum retrospectives results distribution. Do you share the results with every other teams and even outside R&D or do you make the results available to the team only? The results of our retrospectives contain suggestions on what we need to continue doing in the next iterations alon...

Does a software architect have a role in agile, esp. Scrum?

I'm reading the book "The Software Architect's Profession" by Marc and Laura Sewell (Amazon link) and it got me wondering whether a software architect is a part of the old non-agile BDUF approach. Is there a place for software architects in an agile approach? I'm especially interested in Scrum. BTW I currently am the Unix Application A...

Do I have to be a Scrum Master to manage the agile scrums?

I am sure to become a scrum master could really add value to the process I am following, however I believe that the background of the area of the application I am working on help more to get better planning and scheduling done for the project ...

Agile/Scrum resource planning cross projects

We have different steps in our planning for online webprojects: 1) Information Architecture Provides user stories Provides wireframes 2) Design Use Wireframes to develop a nice design 3) Development 4) Testing I know that working agile asks for dedicated teams. But it is impossible to have a dedicted IA until the end of the pr...

SCRUM - How do you (developer) deal with unclear requirements and multiple acting POs?

Here's another question trying to figure out how Scrum could/should work in real life. Here is a typical scenario I encounter: Note: The term "Product Owner" is not used below. That is because the true "Product Owner" - the Product Manager in this case - does not make the final decisions. The DB Lead has final say on many things as he d...

How to integrate telecommuters in an agile process?

I'm sure that all of us have had to deal with telecommuters at some point in time, and I'm facing a situation now where my new project will have a "core" group of office workers and some off-site telecommuters. Not wanting to repeat past mistakes, I'd really like to know what ways people have tried in the past to effectively integrate t...

Is our Agile plan standard? Please help validate

We have been trying Scrum But for a while now and are trying to formalize it within as our own version of Agile Application Development. Here's how our current process works. There are two main drawbacks to it as it stands right now. Wanted to get input on whether you have a similar approach and if the community has any practical tips fo...

Using SCRUM in a company that imposes strict governance on the development process?

Our company has to adhere to strict SOX/Cobit protocols. This means that there's a huge paper trail behind everything we do, and noone can start coding until the proper documentation has been signed off. That means you have to wait for the Change Spec, Software Spec, and Architecture Documents (at least) to be signed off before you can...

Card Wall + online card wall = duplication?

I'm not a great fan of duplicating effort. I do find, however, that there are benefits to tracking agile iteration progress on both a physical card wall and an online "calculator" (Excel, some scrum tools) or an online card wall (e.g. Mingle). I find that a physical card wall in the team space provides a visceral kind of connection to t...

What are the major benefits of scrum as a methodology?

I work in the technical department of a design agency. We use XP to manage our department's software development. I have been asked to give a short presentation describing Scrum and whether it would be suitable, in a broader context, for managing client project work. Scrum would be applied to cross functional teams containing graphic de...

What is the difference between Scrum and Extreme Programming?

A few years ago I have worked on a green field project where we did Extreme Programming. I also see a lot of people mention the Scrum methodology. Could someone tell me the main differences between Scrum and XP? ...

TFS Sprint Item Print Plug-in

Does anyone know if there is a plug-in for TFS that will print out our sprint backlog items in a format suitable for using on a Scrum Board, rather than us having to write them out by hand? ...

Scrum/Agile: How do you plan in internal improvements?

I have now worked on two different teams that use the Agile/Scrum approach in the last two years and both teams were eager to improve the way they approach software development. In the first team, we could easily convince our product owner to get time for internal things like improving the build system, setting up better integration test...

Scrum Burndown Patterns

I'm in a 10 person team working on a large legacy code base with a less than ideal product owner. Our backlog is in pretty bad shape and large epics have frequently been breaking our sprints. The team also struggles with its definition of done - some members write unit test religiously, others don't, sometimes depending on time available...

Best way of using Scrum and Sprint for Infrastructure improvement

Does anybody use Scrum & Sprint for Infrastructure. I'm struggling with the concept of a Sprint that never finishes i.e. a Network enhancement project. Also any suggestions on how Item time can be built up to a Product Backlog, so that I can sanity check that resources are not overcommited on the sprint. ...

which are the best best tutorials, books, software to start and manage a .net Agile Project with No Experience

which are the best tutorials, books, software and practices to start and manage a new .net based Development Project in an Agile way with no experience with it. which methodology is easier to adopt XP|Scrum? ...