Background: I am a product manager for a medium size web hosting company and we offer a variety of complementary services besides just webhosting. Today our company has about a dozen 3-6 developer teams each working on different facets of webhosting (i.e. DNS registration, shared hosting, cloud computing, dedicated servers, resales, e...
With Scrum, there is the principal of user stories and these stemming tasks etc etc iterating around to a finished product - which is fine. But, let's say I have 100 features that need implementing, in the real world I can't put any developer on these until a lot of the normal ancillary stuff has been done - for instance, doing a UI des...
I'm starting to learn about Scrum, and I'm interested in trying it out with our development team. I have a lot of questions about it...but my biggest mental roadblock is in the actual graphical design. With our current development cycle [waterfall-esque], our graphical designer lays out the page with all the imagery and such based on a...
The company where I work has been trialling scrum on a project and is now looking to roll scum out to three or four different project teams. We are envisaging that these teams will work in separate feature branches (we are using SVN). We are not sure if the different teams’ sprints should end simultaneously or if we should stagger the ...
Hi, I keep hearing and reading a lot about Agile and Scrum development methodologies, but I have no idea of what they can be, or their use, what kind of projects are suited to this method ? Could you point me out to some useful information about it ? Where to start ? What are the advantages ? ...
Where can I find example charts for scrum development? For example: Burn down or backlog charts. ...
The web development team I work in works with a user experience team that follow User Centered Design principles. Together we all work within Scrum. What best practices should we be aiming for to get great products delivered? ...
We are trying to run SCRUM for a small development team (three and a half developers) working on an on-line application and we are having trouble getting time from non-development resource e.g. product owner, user testing, etc. I'm working on a business case for getting more non-development resource and for it to be more responsive to o...
To execute an Agile project you first need a contract. No contract – no project! No project – no Agile, SCRUM or whatsoever! The contract, if we are talking about mid to big projects, must have well defined safety triggers. I.e. customers want to be very much sure, that if we agree on ending a project in time = T, budget = B and scope =...
My organization has been experimenting with the introduction of more "Agile" methods. We've been trying the Scrum approach for a short while, and most of the team has, more or less, adapted to it. I like it as a whole, but I'm concerned about one potentially severe impact of the methodology: as teams are consistently focused on feature...
Most succesful , and large open source projects seem to follow the Benevolent Dictator style organization. But I was wondering if there are any success stories with agile development in Open source. When refering to Open source I mean large net-community driven development, not established teams doing Open source under the same roof. ...
We have a single developer working on 3 different projects. He used to work on bug fixes, maintenance and few feature implementation. In one specific project, he works with one more junior developer. Our company wants to implement scrum for all the projects.. What is the best way to handle the scrum process for 1 or 2 person project? ...
Every time a new developer joins to the team, or the computer a developer using changes, developer needs to do lots of work to setup the local development environmentto make the current project working. As a SCRUM team we are trying to automate everything including deployment and tests so what I am asking is: is there a tool or a practic...
We're a medium sized engineering shop (10-20). We are great at prioritizing and structuring work on our user facing stories and making customers happy. But the cobbler's children have no shoes. If it isn't about customers, we have 0 process. I'm looking for systems to ensure we correctly prioritize and accomplish the non user facing wo...
We follow Scrum for software development in our organization. Although we have fair experience with Scrum, we stop short of producing good source code at the end of the day. People are talking about combining Extreme Programming (XP) with Scrum to produce predictable results. I have gone through the Extreme Programming materials but co...
Post edited for clarification (original post at the bottom). I wish to reorganize the R&D staff from horizontal (i.e. specialty or component based) teams to vertical (i.e. feature, self sufficient) teams. I'm likely to end up with 3-4 teams, with developers and QA engineers who collaboratively can work with most aspects of the product. ...
I have a coworker on a team that is fairly distributed, fairly large (for our company) and wants to take advantage of visual management tools like scrum / kanban boards. Since they are a somewhat distributed team, though, all of the issue management / work management must be done via an electronic tool (we currently use Trac). What issu...
As part of my assignment I have to answer this question: The Sales Department has decided to develop new software internally. They will thus need to manage the IT project formally. Briefly describe two suitable project management methodologies models that could be used. I'm quite confused by the amount of methodologies. I Tho...
It is not easy for traditional large software product organizations working in distributed off-shore environments engaged in Product Development to follow the spirit of Agile in Scrum for the following reasons: Their product development is not iterative. The product engineering teams after several rounds of iterative systems engineeri...
Hi, We've had several sprints with the traditional whiteboard and PostIt notes and are ready to move forward to integrating the process into our Team System environment. One tool we're considering is Conchango's "Scrum for Team System" (http://www.scrumforteamsystem.com/en/) Has anyone tried this tool in a real world scrum process? Was...