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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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 ...
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how to change the sequence used in planning poker
Is it possible to change the used sequence in Planning Poker, for some stories, it is thought that when the stories gets larger it contains more uncertainty but stories have nearly exact time ...
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need some concrete examples on user stories, tasks and how they relate to functional and technical specifications
Little heads up, Im the only lonely dev building/planning/mocking my project as I go. Ive come up with a preview release that does only the core aspects of the system, with good business value and ...
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How to manage product backlog/user stories
We're about to start a new project using Agile (using TFS), and I have a couple of "good practice" questions regarding the product backlog:-
When we first start adding users stories, is it a good ...
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Evaluating a product owner
How do you evaluate a product owner? More specifically, how would one conduct a performance review of a product owner? What qualities or characteristics would one look at when reviewing a product ...
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Test driven vs Business requirements constant changing
One of the new requirement of our dev team set by the CTO/CIO is to become test driven development, however I don't think the rest of the business is going to help because they have no sense of ...
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How do you keep track of a requirements document on an agile team?
I understand that User Stories dominate the agile world, but how are these artifacts stored, so that new developers who join the team can come up to speed with the requirements?
What if the User ...
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Project Dashboards
I'm attempting to create a dashboard so that people not intimately involved with the project can get an indication of project's health. I'm struggling with determining what to put on said dashboard. I ...
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Is it appropriate to run a complex enterprise-system configuration and migration project in a similar way to a Scrum development project?
I'm just starting out on the implementation of a large enterprise-wide system, which has complex requirements and many stakeholders.
The company has been through high-level evaluation and tender ...
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Agile project management, agile development: early integration
I believe that agile works if everything is agile.
In software development area, in my opinion, if team members' code is integrated early, code will be more in sync and this has a lot of pros:
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Agile and different facet of software development
It is said that the Kanban methodology is suited for software maintenance and support areas, whereas Scrum is more suited for new product development. No process or methods are complete. Using the ...
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What level/format of access should be given to a client to the issue tracking system?
So, I used to think that it would be a good idea to give the customer access to the issue tracking system, but now I've seen that it creates less than ideal situations, like:
Customer judging ...
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Agile for the Solo Developer
How would someone implement Agile process concepts as a solo developer? Agile seems useful for getting applications developed at a faster pace, but it also seems very team oriented...
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Software management for 2 programmers
me and my very good friend do a small bussiness. We have company and we develop web apps using Scala. We have started 3 months ago and we have a lot of work now. We cannot afford to employ another ...
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Should the number of developers be considered when estimating a task?
I am pretty inexperienced with working in agile projects but I have tried it a few times and I always run into this problem when estimating a task.
Do we bring into the estimate the number of ...
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Overview of the agile process that I can apply to a startup
I need to provide a quote to an external client for some software. I'm looking to use agile just for initial requirements building (which I'm experienced in from a developer perspective) but I need to ...
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Requirements/issue tracker similar to online spreadsheet
Is there a requirements/issue tracker software which is similar to Google spreadsheet?
We have Fogbugz but I find it more heavyweight and slow than a simple spreadsheet.
Is there a Fogbugz ...
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Should you ever re-estimate user stories?
My current project is having a 'discussion' which is split down the middle- "this story is more complex than we originally thought, we should re-estimate" vs "you should never re-estimate as you only ...
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“Agile Principles, Patterns, and Practices in C#”: Is this just a .NET-translation of the popular Uncle Bob book? [closed]
I found this book sold on Amazon Agile Principles, Patterns, and Practices in C#, written by Robert C Martin and Micah Martin.
Is it merely a .NET port of the older, more popular Agile Software ...
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Solutions for Project management [closed]
The team consists of 3 people.
The method of development is Scrum.
The language of the project is C++.
The project will be under the control of the git system.
The start up budget is 0.
The ...
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Rewriting software using Agile methodologies
Suppose you have to rewrite an entire application using Agile methodologies, how would you do it?
I guess you could write a big bunch of user stories based in the behavior of your current system. And ...
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What is a “cross-functional team” actually?
The general meaning of "cross-functional team" is a team which combines specialists in different fields that are required to reach the goal.
But it looks like in Agile cross-functionality means not ...
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Pair programming and unit testing
My team follows the Scrum development cycle. We have received feedback that our unit testing coverage is not very good.
A team member is suggesting the addition of an external testing team to assist ...
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What methods of requirements elicitation are suitable when I do not have direct access to the user base?
I am working on an application to create invoices. There are some features that are required based on the type of the application and are common to all invoice applications. However, we still need to ...
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Using Completed User Stories to Estimate Future User Stories
In Scrum/Agile, the complexity of a user story can be estimated in story points. After completing some user stories, a programmer or team of programmers can use those experiences to better estimate ...
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What to do when there are no logical user stories but separate development tasks?
We need to generate a release in 3 weeks, and for the planning we are doing today we don't have coherent logical user stories from the backlog tasks. Is valid to match say each development task is ...
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In agile environment, how is bug tracking and iteration tracking consolidated.
This topic stemmed from my other question about management-imposed waterfall-like schedule. From the responses in the other thread, I gathered this much about what is generally advised:
Each story ...
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How to convince the agile product owner to change their mind? [closed]
A friend of a friend ran into a situation recently in which the agile product owner specified features down to exactly what every single user click should look like. The problem is, the dev team has ...
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Can an internally developed fast evolving, agile, short sprint web application lend itself to offshoring?
I have recently been set a target to achieve readiness to successfully manage and deliver results through the usage of offshore teams on our mainline development project within 12 months.
Our ...
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How to learn & introduce scrum in small startup?
In a few months, a friend will establish his startup software company, and I will be the software architect with one additional developer. Though we have no real day-to-day experience with agile ...
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Agile Tools For Handling Multiple Projects
Currently I'm leading our agile team in an iteration manager role as well as doing my regular dev work. One of the difficulties I'm facing as an IM is tracking burn-down/burn-up; not because I can't ...
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Good Practices for development team in large projects
Since I started learning C a few years ago, I have never been a part of a team that worked on a project. I am very interested to know what are the best practices for writing large projects in C.
One ...
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What 's the essential difference between agile developing and plan based developing?
In agile process, the product owner put the unformal ideas/user story/backlog items to the sprint/iteration. Sprint/iteration is like a plan for a short term and it is drived by daily meeting. ...
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How to stop gold-plating and just be content to release working developments [closed]
The development team that I'm a member of has recently adapted to work according to Agile practices. This has personally highlighted the fact that I can't stop myself gold-plating code (and ...
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What programming skills does someone in QA need to work effectively in extreme programming projects?
Well, the title really says it all, but to elaborate a bit, can you take a random, typically effective QA department and have them learn to work in an XP environment (with a learning curve to pick up ...
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What details do you expect to see in a Use Case? [closed]
As a programmer, what level of detail and what information do you expect to see in the "Use Case"?
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Why has extreme programming (XP) gone out of date in favor of Agile, Kanban etc?
I like XP (extreme programming) especially the part where there are 2 programmers at the same screen since often a problem's solution gets closer if only you explain what you're doing and pair ...
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In a team practicing Domain Driven Design, should the whole team participate in Stakeholder meetings?
In my experience, a Software Development Team that comprises:
1 Project Manager
1 Tech Lead
1 - 2 Senior Dev
2 - 3 Junior Dev (Fresh grad)
Only the Tech Lead & PM (and/or Senor Dev/s) will ...
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Finishing an iteration early
I'd like some input on this on those working with agile methodologies...
A current project is finding that development on our planned user stories is finishing some time before the end of the ...
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Difference between Unified Process model and agile development
I am confused concerning the unified process model and agile development. When I'm reading about the UP, I'm only understanding that it is an iterative improvement. Can someone please clarify this?
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Should I listen to my employer and use CASE tools?
My employer (Not a Developer) thinks that CASE tools will help us improve our development process and documentation. I am not sure about that, we are a small team of 5 developers building mobile ...
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How do you explain to an “agile” team that they still need to plan the software they write?
This week at work I got agiled yet again. Having gone through the standard agile, TDD, shared ownership, ad hoc development methodology of never planning anything beyond a few user stories on a piece ...
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Dealing with selfish team member(s) [closed]
My team is facing a difficult quandary, a couple of team members are essentially selfish (not to be confused with dominant!) and are cherry-picking stories/tasks that will give them the most ...
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Reasons for Pair Programming [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Pair Programming: Pros and Cons
I've worked in a few shops where management has passed the idea of pair programming either to me or another manager/developer, and I ...
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How to measure the right time to bring a new client? [closed]
My growing company has a team of developers working on a number of separate projects. Our developers depend on us to keep them working, and we depend on them to make our clients happy. Our projects ...
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Are dynamic languages at disadvantage for agile development?
From what I've read agile development often involves refactoring or reverse engineering code into diagrams. Of course there is much more than that, but if we consider the practices that rely on these ...
