Agile software development is a group of software development methodologies based on iterative and incremental development, where requirements and solutions evolve through collaboration between self-organizing, cross-functional teams.
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How to write tasks in Jira when using Scrum?
I am going to start a new project using Scrum and Jira and I have some questions regarding how to write proper tasks in Jira.
From what I understand user stories are small non-technical descriptions ...
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Shared QA responsibilities on an Agile team
For many years our IT development group subscribed to the waterfall software development methodology with segregated pods of programmers specializing in database development, logic layer and ...
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With agile, what do when a user story doesn't get completed in an iteration?
Do you just move the story to a new iteration, or delay the next iteration?
It gets a bit tricky when you use something like Jira when you have to copy or move around stories between iterations as it ...
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Development methodologies when hundred of developers are working on one single solution?
We are an organisation consisting of around 200 developers that are working continuously on one single product (using the revision control Git) which is planned to be released at a certain date.
Due ...
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Do you estimate all user stories in iteration zero?
After our product backlog is created and prioritized, are we meant to briefly estimate all the stories in the product backlog? I assume they have to be in order to create a product burndown chart, ...
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How can architects work with self-organizing Scrum teams?
An organization with a number of agile Scrum teams also has a small group of people appointed as "enterprise architects". The EA group acts as control and gatekeeper for quality and adherence to ...
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How to write user stories for a framework API
I need help understanding what user stories should look like for a web testing framework we are building for our organization's QA department. We are trying to run this project using Scrum.
The ...
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At what point would you drop some of your principles of software development for the sake of more money?
I'd like to throw this question out there to interestingly see where the medium is.
I'm going to admit that in my last 12 months, I picked up TDD and a lot of the Agile values in software ...
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I want to adopt an agile methodology - in a company that has NO process at all? [closed]
I'm in a team of two developers and currently we have no formal processes for software development and testing - I'd like to adopt one solo initially.
Where I need some opinions is really on the ...
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Should programmers talk with customers / users according to MSF / agile methods?
I've just read two statements that seem to be very different:
Des Weiteren ist mangelnde Kommunikation zwischen Programmierern und Nutzern eine nicht zu vernachlässigende Quelle von unzureichenden ...
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How could I deal with conflicting personalities in a Scrum/Agile based team?
We apply Scrum/Agile and we have two teams. The other team has a conflict of interest (or rather personalities) between two developers. I would like to help resolve this and would like to know how to ...
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How to handle committed and merged code that has no tests?
When developing an application in a team not everyone on this team will be equally good developers. Some will be skilled in some things and some in others and some not at all.
As a team working in an ...
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Code Reviews, what are the advantages? [closed]
In my team, we don't do formal code reviews. We tend to think that it's enough with pair programming and rotating pairs often.
Should we consider doing formal code reviews?
What would be the ...
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In Agile development, who owns the software “features” and how to you manage the development?
Some development teams in my company are switching to Agile development practices and their developers' work seem to be diminishing to discuss and program minutia about trivial software features ...
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How to properly document functionality in an agile project?
So recently, we've just finished the first phase of our project.
We used agile with fortnightly sprints. And whilst the application turned out well, we're now turning our eyes on some of the ...
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In good Scrum, when and how should the ideation and story writing occur? [closed]
It seems like most of the Scrum articles and books that I've read as well as the lectures I've heard have very little to say about the process of creating the items on the backlog. How should a team ...
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Should I try persistence in flat file before database?
Somebody explained to me that since in agile development, policy and the application logic should be more important than details such as persistence method, persistence decision should be taken at the ...
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Velocity does not plateau over time, why?
I have plotted my team burn up chart and its velocity per iteration. To me it looks really bad (velocity fluctuates a lot). What should I be looking for to diagnose the root cause of this behaviour?
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Undergrad internship career path [closed]
I am a CS student currently searching internship positions that are important to my future career. I am passionate about web design and development and it is really what I think my niche is in the ...
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Has anyone, after trying, abandoned the project-management methodology “kanban”? [closed]
I wonder if an agile project-management methodology such as "personal kanban" can be forcibly introduced into teams of developers/IT pros by management pushing it - for instance, "to improve ...
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When should user stories be combined and separated? [closed]
As a school project, we are rolling out our initial set of user stories. Should a user story record the original idea from a user, without combining them or separate them?
For example, John added ...
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agile / scrum and functional specs
I work in a small team of four devs, one domain expert and one manager. We are looking to move to using scrum to try and formalise our processes.
From what I understand of agile, it seems to be ...
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Software Project Management Methodologies Book [closed]
I want to learn about software project management methodologies. There are many books about it. But because the diversity of the books I can't find anything. However I want a book that cover most ...
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How to write “SMART” Objectives as an agile developer?
Like many corporations the company I work for is transitioning to a performance review system based on SMART objectives. My team is a high functioning agile development team employing practices from ...
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How should we draw the release burndown chart?
I have been in various Agile projects and seen many release burndown chart style mostly manual since somehow all the tools that I have run across does not produce really useful burndown chart.
In ...
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Dilemma of QA vs. iterations
In my company, we successfully working with agile practices - but without using iterations. The main reason is that we can't find a clean way to fit in QA in an iteration cycle.
We understand QA as ...
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Has research been done on the effectiveness of Planning Poker as an estimation technique?
Although it is a commonly held opinion that planning poker improves the accuracy of project estimations (a small sample of which demonstrated on this question), has any defined research been done on ...
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Unforeseen Spike in a Sprint… what to do?
I did a look around and couldn't find a question that addresses my case, so I figured I would post.
I have a situation where as a new team, we ran into 2 unforseen spikes (is there a better term?) ...
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How to write stories for internal projects
I'm working on a project which runs as a process, on a regular basis. The results of the projects daily run are used by other projects. This brings me to question how our team writes stories.
The ...
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Relationship between user story, feature, and epic?
As someone whose still new to agile, I'm not sure I completely understand the relationship or difference between a user story, feature, and epic.
According to this question, a feature is a collection ...
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Is fixing bugs made by other people a good approach?
Let's assume the situation where a team of four developers is building an application. During the testing phase, bugs are reported by users. Who should fix them? The person who committed the erroneous ...
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What is best pratice for user stories containing two roles
I have a number of user stories where the same feature needs to be shared by multiple roles. I have started writing these stories like this:
As a Role-A or a Role-B When I perform Action-X ...
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Does the use of personas in Agile have any value during implementation?
This is about the use of personas, primarily in the agile development realm.
What value, if any, do personas give during implementation?
On agile modeling, the discussion about personas remains in ...
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Certified Scrum Master exam
I have just finished two days of the CSM course and I feel pretty excited about the upcoming online exam.
What is your experience with the exam? How much did you get? And can you recommend any good ...
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Handling unexpected features during sprint
Our team is going to adopt scrum and agile technics. We've got a product, which we develop for multiple customers. This customers supplied us with necessary requirements, so everithing is fine to ...
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What is Developer Anarchy?
I've been reading about Developer (or Programmer) Anarchy, which seems to be billed as a post-Agile development methodology. I found a few resources on it (1, 2) but it doesn't seem to be a lot out ...
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What is “swarming”?
I've heard swarming mentioned in the context of Agile or Extreme Programming. It seems to be a complement to pairing.
What exactly is it? When should it be applied? How do you do it well?
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IEEE SRS documents: lightweight version when working with outside contractors?
Typically we follow an Agile development process that tends not to put an emphasis on writing requirements and technical documents that nobody will read. We tend to focus our limited manpower to ...
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How to implement Scrum in a company with three similar web-based products
I am somewhat familiar with the concepts and benefits of Scrum. With that in mind, I am trying to improve the failing Scrum product management structure of a company I'm now working for that has three ...
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Is Agile a variant of RAD?
Wikipedia says that Agile is a type of "RAD" which I guess is incorrect. From what I know, Agile was developed becasue RAD itself was not that sucessfull in 90'S (too rigid for changes).
Or am I ...
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Is continuous creation and deletion of tables a sign of an architectural flaw?
Recently I had a discussion with a developer who mentioned that during program development, they routinely create and delete tables and columns on a regular basis while working on new features and ...
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Can Agile and ISO 9001 interact well?
There are few academic papers addressing the relationship between lean software development and the practices covered by ISO 9001. Most articles says that the divergence between these approaches is ...
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How to add a new developer to the team
I run a small company composed of only 2 developers. We are building a very big application for one of our clients. Development on this project has gone on for 1.5 years.
Now this client has secured ...
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Requesting quality analysis test cases up front of implementation/change
Recently I have been assigned to work on a major requirement that falls between a change request and an improvement. The previous implementation was done (badly) by a senior developer that left the ...
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When Agile goes wrong [closed]
I'm writing an Agile course for some of the new guys we are on-boarding recently, and I want to add a cautionary tale so they understand that Agile is not meant for all projects.
My problem is that, ...
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What electronic user-story-mapping tools can you recommend? [closed]
Agile software development relies heavily on a work item type called user stories. For example, you have a backlog full of user stories and you can select a few of them to work on during the next ...
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Behavior-Driven Development / Use case diagram
Regarding growing of Behavior-Driven Development imposing acceptance testing, are use cases diagram useful or do they lead to an "over-documentation"?
Indeed, acceptance tests representing ...
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Link between tests and user stories
I have not see these links explicitly stated in the Agile literature I have read. So, I was wondering if this approach was correct: Let a story be defined as "In order to [RESULT], [ROLE] needs to ...
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How do bug reports factor in to a sprint?
I've been reading up on Scrum recently. From my understanding, a meeting is held before the sprint starts, to decide what gets moved from the product backlog to the upcoming sprint backlog. Once a ...
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Agile product backlogs
We are starting an Agile project, and the product owner has made a start adding user stories to the product backlog (mostly epics at this stage).
Who would be responsible for breaking down epics into ...
