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Task Planning on an Agile Team
At the beginning of each sprint our team will pull in a handful of user stories and then, one by one, write slightly more detailed tasks for them as well as assign specific hours to each task.
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Planning poker, individual or whole group in estimates?
In planning poker/scrum poker, when an estimate is made, should the estimate be made based on the assumption that only a single developer is assigned to that task, or a group of developers? If the ...
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Release roadmap with scrum
I need to prepare an internal product release road-map for product being built via scrum methodology, and have some difficulty correlating sprints to the road-map.
The main problem is that as I don't ...
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Scrum - how to carry over a partially complete User Story to the next Sprint without skewing the backlog
We're using Scrum and occasionally find that we can't quite finish a User Story in the sprint in which it was planned. In true Scrum style, we ship the software anyway and consider including the User ...
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How do you determine velocity when the previous sprint was half User Stories and half Defects?
The following scenario often happens with my team at the office. Let's say we decided to plan our Sprint this way:
50% new features
50% bug fixing (they are high priority AND unestimated as the ...
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How to account for a bug fixing iteration?
We have implemented Scrum quite successfully for the past 5 months. Though, we are 3 weeks away from PROD without ever doing any end-to-end integration test. OUCH! I need help. Without tackling the ...
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How to handle 'external' dependencies in scrum?
If you've planned a number of user stories for a sprint and one candidate story is dependent on some external provider delivering something to your team. For example an online service provider adding ...
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How long should a sprint planning meeting last?
In your experience, how long should a planning meeting (SCRUM) last? 8 hours? Or should it be shorter (succinct) and further discussions should be planned as part of the sprint (10 days sprint)?
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Scrum overestimation and replanning
We are in the middle of our first Sprint and something dawn on us: we over estimated!
We had planned 114 ideal hours for this 2 weeks iteration and at the end of the first week we finished the whole ...
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How does a Scrum team account for infrastructure tasks in the planning meeting?
How does a Scrum team account for dev/infrastructure tasks in the planning meeting?
At first glance, they do not seem like user stories since they do not deliver end user value.
However, attaching ...
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How many story points should you allocate in an initial sprint?
When first implementing Scrum within a team, how should you go about determining the amount of story points that are in an initial sprint when you have no idea of the team's velocity?
Should you base ...
