Hi, I'm looking for some background on this template (need a citation for a report). Who was the person who came with the well known template? “As a [user], I want [function], so that [value]” I've been looking for the answer but no one gives a proper citation. ...
Hi, I have a set of User Stories and I have a set of business rules (primarily laws binding my requirements to be compliant). In Agile SDLC I'm not sure where does theses "rules" are attached to my user stories. For example, a user story like: As a doctor I want to add patient information in order to create a new patient file. An...
Hi, I am working in a dev team where we religiously follow agile. However, I have not had to change how I work (unit testing etc doesn't count as I do that anyway). I mean, do I need to change how or how often I communicate? This soft skill side of things with agile is what I am interested in. Thanks ...
Hi Guys, I've just installed TFS 2010, and would like to use TFS in the most Agile way. I've seen http://scrumforteamsystem.com, are they're any other good templates you can suggest? Cheers, Ash. ...
Possible Duplicate: What is Agile Development? I am working on ruby-on-rails from past 4 months. Previously i worked on php, asp.net, java etc. From past four months i am listening this:-- Agile Development Can anybody tell me what exactly this means. I have some basic things in my mind regarding this, but i am not introd...
From what I have read, "agile" seems to be just a euphemistic term for hack-and-slash development. In other words, where architecture-centric development is based around design documents, agile development has no "design," per se, and the code is just hacked together until it passes tests. I really hope this is not the case. Clarifica...
We have two distinct agile teams, each working on separate, but related, applications. Each team has, until now, been able to work in an independent fashion (distinct code bases, persistence stores, sprints, backlogs etc). Recently, product management decided that these applications will become even more closely integrated. On a side n...
In Scrum and/or other Agile methods how do you handle versions of requirements simply? I assume that there are plenty of organisations who are Agile but also need to keep a track of requirement changes for regulatory purposes and so on. You may have a requirement in version 1 which is substantially altered in version 8. How do you track...
Hi there, I am part of a small team of developers (5-6) who all work on seperate smallish projects and each know our own projects inside out. Our management want us to learn each others systems so that we can update them should the other members be away on leave etc. To this end we want to use TFS2010 as we have already go all the ...
Obviously the differences in the impact to teams, customers, ROI, etc. of applying the two approaches is huge and is the subject of many books and endless discussions and conferences. But as I think more about it, I am having a hard time finding any difference between the two that doesn't ultimately map to a single root difference which...
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? ...
I am looking to start pushing for more Agile processes to be brought into play in the work place and do my best to outlaw cowboy coding as much as possible. I understand many of the different models and am just looking to see which model has the higher uptake (or which parts of the model as well), and in what industry it is being used. ...
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. ...
When the specification and the agreed behavior of the application operates without fault, however the outcome turns out to be undesired, what should this be called? Is it a bug? How can it be a bug when the software performs as desired from the specifications and the agreed behavior? ...
Basically we have rows upon rows of programmers that do mundane tasks every day. This would involve writing code that is not very effective, is not unit tested, and often integrates poorly with the application. Not to mention that there is no accountability in terms of hours spent versus hours worked. I am not trying to get people fired ...
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...
If I need to fix something cosmetic in my application (e.g. fixing the color of an element), should this be marked as a bug or as a feature in Pivotal Tracker? Note: even though it's cosmetic, that doesn't mean that this fix will be trivial. ...
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? ...