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 defines good developer culture? [closed]
We are a team of 6 people developing applications for mobile devices (Android & iOS). In our company, which consists of many teams responsible for "classic" software development, business ...
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Advice on SCRUM for the solitary developer [duplicate]
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Agile for the Solo Developer
I am looking for advice on the SCRUM process for a solitary developer. Most SCRUM resources I see focus on its use in a team environment, ...
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Who should be the architect in an agile project?
We are developing the agile way for a few months now and I have some troubles understanding the agile manifesto as interpreted by my colleagues. The project we are developing is a framework for future ...
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How to handle estimates for programmers joining the team?
Iteration has already started, new programmer joins the team, task X has already been estimated to be 30 hours by a different developer.
What is the best practice in this situation?
new developer ...
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Is it a good idea to appoint one of the scrum team member or scrum master as Product Owner?
Lately we had a project, in which client was busy touring. As usual scrum team was formed, management decided to appoint our analyst as Product owner since Client won’t be able to participate ...
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Is it okay to have people with multiple roles in a Scrum team?
I'm evaluating some Agile-style methodologies for possible introduction to my team. With Scrum, is it allowable to have the same person perform multiple roles? We have a small team of four ...
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How do I know if I am using Scrum methodologies?
When I first started at my current job, my purpose was to rewrite a massive excel-VBA workbook-application to C# Winforms because it was thought that the new C# app will fix all existing problems and ...
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Scrum in a consulting environment?
Is it possible to introduce scrum to a consulting environment? On any given week I might belong to 4 different teams, each with a different PM, BA and dev team (I am a designer). It doesn't seem ...
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Can you be Agile without doing TDD (test driven development)?
Is is possible to correctly call yourself (or your team) "Agile" if you don't do TDD (Test-Driven Development)?
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How can I get the business analysts more involved in BDD?
I am a proponent of Behavior Driven Development, mainly with Cucumber and RSpec, and at my current gig (a Microsoft shop) I am introducing SpecFlow as a tool to help with testing.
I'd like to get the ...
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Is writing software in the absence of requirements a skill to possess or a situation I should avoid?
I find that some software developers are very adept at this, and often times are praised for their ability to deliver a working concept with abstract requirements. Frankly, this drives me crazy, and I ...
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Is there a viable alternative to the agile development methodology?
The two predominant software-development methodologies are waterfall and agile. When discussing these two, there is often much focus on the particular practices that distinguish them (pair ...
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How should I pitch moving to an agile/iterative development cycle with mandated 3-week deployments?
I'm part of a small team of four, and I'm the unofficial team lead (I'm lead in all but title, basically). We've largely been a "cowboy" environment, with no architecture or structure and everyone ...
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Should we document stand-up meetings?
Another team in my company start to document their stand-up meetings, but I believe it is a waste of time. As far as I know, stand-up meetings are for communication not for status reporting (please, ...
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Agile estimation with tech-debt
When estimating (story points) a story that consists on extending a current functionality with a known tech-debt, should we consider the effort that will be spent to refactor the current code or ...
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What units are story points estimated in?
I am reading about a case study about a team that estimates tasks or "story points" as they call them based on the effort needed to complete them.
What the units are these "story points" estimated ...
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Are there any scientific studies done on TDD that use total cost of ownership for a product as the measurement?
When I was reading the summary of previous work in Dogsa T, Batic D. The effectiveness of test-driven development: an industrial case study. Software Quality Journal. 2011;19(4):643-661. it struck me ...
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How to use unit tests as a source of information?
A colleague of mine was one a seminar about agile development, where he heard it is possible to use unit tests as a technical documentation. Something like using unit tests as example how to use the ...
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Are there advantages to agile practices other than having a working build between sprints?
I recently became interested in agile practices in software development and I since have seen a lot of articles point out that these practices allow for reduced overall costs.
The logic behind that ...
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What is the difference between Agile Modeling and the Agile Manifesto? [closed]
By searching for the different software development methods I found that there are two AM:
Agile Modeling
Agile Manifesto
The problem is that I can't get the difference between them. If one is a ...
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Multi-project multi-team Scrum
2 teams (A and B) in different geo locations are developing Project P.
Both of the teams are also developing few other smaller projects: A has projects PA1 and PA2. B has PB1 and PB2. P is the only ...
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How to choose an agile methodology?
I'm working in a little firm about 10 developpers,
we are working a kind of agile way but knowledgeless and without formalism.
I think be aware of what are agile method, what can they afford to us, ...
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Scrum for team split between two spoken languages
I have a team that without a single common language among all of the team members. The team is split across two locations (though the geography isn't the main issue). All team members in each location ...
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Choose the Right Software Method for the Job [closed]
What software methodology would you use if the following:
It is a single-man project
It is a small project but could grow fast potentially
Other developers can pick the project up in a later stage
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What do you think of “Planning Poker”? [closed]
Planning Poker
Summary, in case you don't want to read the wiki article:
Get a list of tasks you want to do for the upcoming iteration
For each task:
2.1 Discuss with the group what it entails
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Agile - Spikes and the Overall Timeline
Team is starting on their first capital-A Agile project, and the project seems like it will fall in line nicely with the methodology (i.e. we can probably just grab an agile book and follow it like a ...
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How much detail about a user story can a developer expect?
The biggest drawback of agile development I have experienced is that people not involved in development focus on the mantra that a user story (3-10 ideal person days) should not contain more than 1-3 ...
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How can Scrum be adapted to an academic environment?
I'm currently working with a professor at my university to develop new curricula for the Software Engineering and Capstone Design courses offered in my college.
Up until recently, both courses used ...
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Which user-story estimation technique is better? [closed]
I found two techniques for estimating user stories:
by the size of the story, which is unit-less
by the time estimate, which is measured by days
The first uses relative comparison between stories ...
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Team work and agile development
I think this question related not only to agile but to teamwork in general.
When we are working in a team and each member is working a user story to complete how to avoid creation of duplicate ...
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Can two developers form an agile team?
I am working on a company's project alone at the moment, but the company is getting soon a junior developer whom I will be mentoring. Considering he will be learning a lot in first few days I am ...
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How relaxed (or not) should a sprint be?
What should be the attitude towards getting stories done that are assigned to a sprint? Obviously you want to prioritize getting them done in the sprint, but to me the whole point of agile is to be ...
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Parallel Testing options in Agile Development?
I've read through some very good resources on the internet trying to find out if my initial proposed testing process is a valid option. So please any advice or recommendations are appreciated.
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How does agile work when replacing a working system?
In an ideal Agile world, you quickly build a small, but useful subset of the desired end system, and give it to users. They're excited, because it's useful, they start using it and give feedback. You ...
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How do you estimate the time required for a “research phase” in agile development?
In the context of agile development, what is the appropriate amount of learning that an engineer should engage in before implementing a solution to a problem?
If an engineer knows she is too ignorant ...
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What are the Agile initial conditions?
First let me say that I think that an agile process can work because of the following underlying principles:
It brings focus
Limits the noise which really brings focus
Secondly I am wondering what ...
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Can 'Agile' be applied to Healthcare IT teams?
Can Agile be employed in a field like Healthcare IT, where so much of patient care depends on the quality and timely delivery of systems?
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Does Agile force developers to spend more time actually working?
Looking at common Agile practices it seems to me that they (intentionally or unintentionally?) force developers to spend more time actually working as opposed to reading blogs/articles, chatting, ...
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How to create the architecture/design of an application in Agile?
If I am about to develop an Enterprise application, but as far as I understand from agile process, I break features into small chunks and develop them iteratively. I used to create the database and ...
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Steps for moving towards continuous delivery? [closed]
Say you have a traditional dev > test > production process say on a monthly release cycle.
What are some of the steps you need to take and put into place to move towards a model of continuous ...
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How Do You Estimate Project Hours Using Pivotal Tracker If You Are a Services Firm?
I am new to Pivotal Tracker and trying to learn how best to use it for our business. We are an app development consulting services firm. As you guys know, clients want to have an idea of total time ...
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How do we finish all our stories by the end of the sprint and not after and why is this important?
We are running 2 weeks sprints where the team will just barely finish development by the last day of the sprint but cards are not complete because testing is not finished. The definition of done is ...
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Is there an agile project management technique for developing innovative software systems?
I am involved with the development of innovative software. The development is innovative since we don't know how to develop it and what algorithm should we use to implement and nobody else did it ...
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Agile unified process vs. agile lifecycle process
I wanted to know the difference between agile lifecycle and agile unified process(AUP). I do understand that AUP is a modified version of RUP using agile methodology. Can you please elaborate on the ...
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Can scrum master allocate tasks?
We are following scrum in our project. I see most of the times the scrum master allocates the tasks for us. However, I read from many scrum books that scrum works the other way around (the 'pull' ...
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SDLC approach for small size projects
For small size projects, is it worth following the SDLC? is SCRUM/agile development a better approach?
Edit: The project I have in mind is a small change but it will affect multiple layers/parts of ...
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Are project managers useful in Scrum?
There are three roles defined in Scrum: Team, Product Owner and Scrum Master. There is no project manager, instead the project manager job is spread across the three roles.
For instance:
The Scrum ...
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Essential management tools for a small/medium software development shop
I've recently started work with an organisation that is rapidly expanding and is recruiting or growing several development teams (including two web-based products and a data warehouse/BI team). They ...
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How to change documentation expectations from “risk management” to a “project risk”
We are trying to introduce some agile concepts to the business folks but one of our biggest hurdles is their expectations for documentation - the quantity, the authorship/ownership of the documents, ...
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How useful is a project log or diary? [closed]
I want to know how difficult/useful it is to keep a project log or diary. I'm worried that keeping track of what I did will eat up too much time...
