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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Agile development challenges
With Scrum / user story / agile development, how does one handle scheduling out-of-sync tasks that are part of a user story?
We are a small gaming company working with a few remote consultants who ...
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Is this agile? Scrum? How to improve agility?
Is this agile? Scrum? Any suggestions on how this can be made more agile under the circumstances? Which points are positives and which can be improved?
The product is developed for a customer who ...
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Extreme Programming - documenting implementation?
In extreme programming methodology, what artifacts/ can be used to document the implementation?
I have used an activity diagram to document the design steps for each activity. I have read that for ...
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How should we implement Scrum with two projects for one team?
I'm starting at this new company as a scrum master, and they want to dive into Scrum, which is nice and all, but they only have enough people (4) for one team.
The road map includes delivering a new ...
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What roles do people take after scrum master/technical lead? [closed]
What roles do people take after scrum master/technical lead?
EDIT: My current role is a mix of a technical lead and scrum master role, but that's how we do it in my company :) )
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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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Release Planning in Agile/Extreme Programming
I've been studying couple of books of how to exactly implement agile. I am confused about release planning.
Our application is a Insurance System consisting of different modules (Quoting, Policy ...
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How can I get my startup working with Agile development?
In our startup, we've worked until now using the traditional waterfall model, but we want to try our next project using Agile Methodology.
We are pretty much alien to the entire Agile process, so ...
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Who should be responsible for writing/updating design specifications in an agile team
I work as part of a scrum-like Agile team and a while ago, one thing we identified that the team should do is maintain good set of design documents for our code base. Because we are agile and do have ...
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What is 'work' in the Pomodoro Technique? [closed]
I have just started to use Pomodoro today and I am trying to work out what I should and should not do during my 25 minute work time.
For my 25 minute work stint I started to write some code and ...
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Isn't the Spiral Model/Agile Development essentially just a more rapid and compressed Waterfall Model?
Since I learned about the Spiral Model of software development, I've tried to apply it to the different projects I've been involved in. However, I'm starting to feel like it's really just compressing ...
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What are the best XP practices?
In "Extreme Programming Explained", Beck lists 13 "primary practices". They are:
Sit Together
Whole Team
Informative Workspace
Energized Work
Pair Programming
Stories
Weekly Cycle
Quarterly Cycle
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Scrum: Short VS long sprint
We were trying to figure out the optimal sprint length for our project. After working on a 3-weeks basis we thought that cutting the sprint to 2-weeks would provide better velocity.
The advantages ...
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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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How to implement a software development process in an existing project?
My question involves setting up a Software Development process. If you came in to an existing project that had no formal methodology or process set up, and then were asked to set one up yourself, how ...
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Who should set the goal for a retrospective?
I am the SM of a team and would like to know who should set the goal for the retrospectives
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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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What's a good model for continuous manager <-> programmer feedback?
Is it important for managers to give devs regular feedback on how they're doing and vice versa? I say vice versa because I consider employees to be responsible to their manager, and managers to be ...
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Agile Retrospective Ideas
I am a Junior at workplace and i have been to a number of our retrospectives over the last year. I have been asked to facilitate a retrospective of my own.
So far, we have done "hats (red, green, ...
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Should there be more scientific study of the effectiveness of various hyped-up ideas in software development?
Everyone seems to implicitly assume that the free market of ideas will eventually converge on the "right" solutions in software development. We don't assume that in medicine - we recognise that ...
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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 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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What is a clean Agile (Scrum) Sprint Presentation?
Suppose someone of your development team is presenting a sprint to the customer but he is having web connection problems such that a complete story cannot be presented. For the sake of the cleanness ...
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How does SCRUM manage different projects about the same product with different teams?
It happens in my workplace that when a product is finished, and just some weeks before it is released and the project is closed, some business considerations remain about features that are wanted for ...
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How do you balance documentation requirements with Agile developments
In our development group there is currently discussions around agile and waterfal methodology. No-one has any practical experience with agile, but we are doing some reading.
The agile manifesto ...
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How would you introduce an agile methodology like scrum?
If you've found agile and walk into a workplace that doesn't particularly follow any methodology and they are resistant to change (as most people usually are), how would you introduce an agile ...
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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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Agile development : How to design your code for an iteration / Sprint?
In Agile development you work on small user stories and produce a working iteration.
But what happens when the next user story comes in and affects the design for the already done iteration?
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Are High Level Design and Low Level Design documents needed to follow Agile development process?
Our team is developing a project using an Agile development process. All of our requirements are converted into product backlog items and task are broken down based on that. One of my team member ...
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Is the “Software Project Survival Guide” methodology compatible with Agile ones?
I'm considering re-reading Steve McConnell's excellent "Software Project Survival Guide" and perhaps applying it verbatim to my next project. However, one thought struck me: the book was written in ...
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How a .NET dev team should be designing and delivering greenfield projects? [closed]
Some of the hottest topics in the software world atm are:
Domain-Driven Design
SOLID principles
Agile methodologies
ORM
Now assuming that you are not currently using all of these in your team, ...
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Test planning for an Agile sprint
Can anyone offer any tips or experience on developing a test plan for an Agile sprint? Most of the time our team simply creates a "Test Feature X" task and goes about writing ad-hoc test cases. There ...
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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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Is it common for business analysts (or other non-development team members) to have stories tracked alongside developers?
We're using JIRA with Greenhopper, and currently our business analyst has tasks for their analysis which will eventually lead to new stories placed in the backlog, running alongside the stories for ...
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is there any relationship between a story point in two different projects?
Assume we have two projects and one or more teams (one team doing the projects in serial or two teams doing the projects in parallel).
If Team A decides that a task is 8 story points and Team B ...
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How do I go about choosing a development lifecycle model model?
Based on this question about alternatives to the agile philosophy and its answers and comments I thought it might be useful to discuss what goes into the decision of what "methodology" to use when at ...
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Finding an agile coach
I'm hoping that this is the right place to ask this question, but my company has recently started a process to look at how we build software, from the tools we use to the methodology. As you can ...
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Scrum taskboard with QA stage
I've been reading this article by Mike Cohn about Scrum task boards.
One query I have is how this fits into a workflow where there is QA stage performed by testers who aren't developers.
It seems ...
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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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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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Parallel teams and scrum/agile
My company has grown seriously over the last years. Until a few years ago we could work with 1 agile team and everything went quite smooth. Now we have multiple teams, all working agile and things ...
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Peer review for UI Development
I am the only front-end developer in a team composed for 3 .Net devs, 1 QA and 1 PM. Although we have another team from another office halfway around
the world, to whom would i do code review with?
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Splitting user stories into smaller stories
I've been reading various techniques for splitting large user stories in helpful ways, such as by user workflow through the system etc. What I'm struggling with is how to word these smaller stories if ...
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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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How to use BPMN and use case and other diagrams together
I asked this question on stackoverflow, but it seems this question is not suitable there, so I post here for discussion.
BPMN (Business Process Modeling Notations) is used for modeling business ...
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Large Ecommerce Site Topology and Deployment Guidelines
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I am a lead engineer for a highly trafficked eCommerce website (upwards of 1m page views an hour). For various reasons we have the opportunity to rebuild large portions of our ...
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Geographically limited / gradual release process
I am looking for more information on a gradual release process - that is when you release new version of a software only to certain set of end users, mostly geographically limited (or limited by a ...
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How to time the sprints in Scrum to allocate time for TDD?
We have sprints of 4 weeks duration. What I have been doing is 3 weeks dev time and 1 week of pure manual/automated testing, stabilization and shipment assurance testing.
How to manage TDD within ...
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How to guide stakeholder(s) not to get far from the scrum vision?
Consider this scenario:
Stakeholder(s): Let's build a web application to manage user's financial data.
Scrum team: Ok, let's do it.
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After 3 sprints
Stakeholder(s): Let's also implement a ...
