What are your experiences with Agilo for Scrum?
What are your experiences with Agilo for Scrum? ...
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What don't you like in Agile development?
What do you not like (or even hate) in Agile development? I mean SCRUM, XP or any other light process. ...
Bad habits of your Scrum Master
Scrum is quite popular dev.process these days and often Project Manager suddenly gets new title (Scrum Master). However it should be not just a new title, but new habits and new paradigm. What are the bad habits of your Scrum master? ...
How big is too big for XP/SCRUM?
In the earliest stages of planning the development of a new system, which development model to follow seems paramount. I've always held onto the belief that a classic waterfall (or hybrid waterfall/iterative prototyping) is the best approach for medium to large projects. It seems that once a project gets to be a certain size, the Agile...
Does SCRUM alone = agile?
I'm hearing about a lot of companies that act like they're agile but the only agile thing they do is the SCRUM process. Is this enough to be considered agile? Using SCRUM alone seems like the perfect excuse for a bad manager to get more meetings more often. Should I be weary of such companies? ...
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? ...
Screen sharing OSX<-->windows
I can combine voice chat + screen sharing between two OSX machines using iChat, and it mostly works well. But if one of the machines is Windows, what should I use? I'm trying to demo completed features to an offsite product owner as part of Agile's "done done" practice. Ideally either machine could host the shared screen and either woul...
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 ...
What are the pros and cons of design/code reviews?
Design reviews pre-implementation I am assuming ensures a good design the better meets the requirements of a project. Code reviews during implementation ensure that the coder properly translates the design into actual code. Are design reviews necessary? Pros and cons. ...
Best concrete "how-to manual" on MANAGING Test Driven and/or Agile development?
Obligatory up-front clarification: I have a great boss. Very smart guy. Respectful towards all. Dude is awesome. Seriously. Now for my question: I am looking for an easily digestible book to possibly present to my boss/team. Background info: More and more of our meetings at work involve my boss/team pondering how to implement ...
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 revoke collective code ownership?
The benefits of collective code ownership (CCO) can be tremendous. But there is a risk that it turns into "no code ownership" (NCO). In my opinion, CCO is a right a team has to earn. While going from strong code ownership (SCO) to CCO is not easy, it seems even harder to go back. First, revoking CCO has the potential to slow the team dow...
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...
In agile like development, who should write test cases?
Our team has a task system where we post small incremental tasks assigned to each developer. Each task is developed in its own branch, and then each branch is tested before being merged to the trunk. My question is: Once the task is done, who should define the test cases that should be done on this task? Ideally I think the develope...
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...