So I have a backlog of features and we are about to get started on a sizable project. I am working on defining the structure of our sprints and I'm interested in the communities feedback. What I'm thinking is: One day sprint planning Fill the backlog and figure out what each dev will go after this sprint Three weeks of development ...
EDIT TO IMPROVE CLARITY Scrum suggests that you split your development into a number of sprints. Each sprint being a fixed duration. At the end of each sprint you ask the client if you should release the software. If they say yes, you perform a Release Sprint, during which you do all the tasks that you woud like to do contineously, but ...
Let’s say story A is worth 10 story points. Development starts in sprint 100, but is not completed by they end of the sprint. I am then assuming that you do not claim any points. A story is done or not done. And tets say your average velocity is 25pts and your team stays the same for the next iteration. So when working out your capacity ...
Is there a difference between Sprint and an Iteration or one can have Iterations within a Sprint or Sprint is just the terminology used instead of Iteration in Scrum? It will be helpful if someone can throw some light on this. Suppose there are 4 sprints and you have decided the first sprint will go up to 10 days is it required that oth...
Lets take an example suppose we got 5 stories A,B and C,D,E. Importance Name Estimate 90 B 70 A 50 C 35 E 10 D The stories are ordered based on their importance(priority) now how you do estimate them? Is it estimated based on size of the feature? If so what does that numeric Value so for exam...
I am quite new to Lean/Kanban, but have poured over online resources over the last few weeks and have come up with a question that I haven't found a good answer for. Lean/Kanban seems otherwise such a good fit for our company, who is already using Scrum, but have reached some limitations inside that methodology. I hope someone here can g...
I am the scrum master for a small team of 4 developers. The project we are working on has a lot of tasks that we have never done before and cannot easily estimate in a sprint planning meeting. What is the best way for me to run a sprint with this uncertainty? I am finding it very hard to finish a sprint with a potentially releasable p...
I work on an agile project using Scrum. Sprints have come and gone and we have fulfilled milestones successfully. The system works well enough to meet the current customer requirements. However, we are left with a system in serious need of refactoring, as much of the development was performed with little eye on the future (instead the...
Given a short sprint, is it ever acceptable to forgo TDD to "get things done" within the sprint. For example a given piece of work might need say 1/3 of the sprint to design the object model around an existing implementation. Under this scenario you might well end up with implemented code, say half way through the sprint, without any te...
I'm trying Agile with tfs2010 for the fist time. I would like input for each sprint a stard date and a end date but i think that is not possible actually. Do you have some hints how extend it for this data? Thank you very much. Enri ...
HTC Evo 4G from Sprint has a front facing camera. The Sprint dev site has some info about it http://androidcommunity.com/sprint-sdk-for-htc-evo-4g-teaches-devs-to-use-front-video-cam-hdmi-more-20100324/ My question is: is the front facing camera SDK going to be included in Froyo? ...
Using TRAC TicketQuery template for sprint to show what's going on. How would I type name of current sprint only ONCE, when template needs it in multiple location? For example "Sprint1" is needed is 6 places: = New items = [[TicketQuery(milestone=Sprint1,status=new,format=table,order=priority,col=id|summary|priority|component|owner|t...
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 ...
Our roles are not purely product development. We also provide '1st-line support' for internal & external customers, and any of these tasks, by their very nature, will always override any product development priorities. How can we use SCRUM's sprints to help us manage product-development and support issues? ...
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 ...
What tasks that can be included and tracked as work items in the Sprint Backlog? Can Analysis, Review and Unit Testing (of a user story) be included or can only core Coding tasks be included and tracked in the Sprint backlog? Basically I am breaking down user stories into technical tasks for updating the Sprint backlog and would like t...