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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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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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Can we pull future user stories in current sprint?
Suppose we have estimated 5 user stories to complete in a sprint and completed all of them with testing, buffer time and for expected bugs.
Still we have 2-3 days left for one of the developer. Can ...
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How to handle User Story at end of sprint if users want changes?
We just adopted Scrum and completed our first sprint (yeah!)
At the Sprint Review, we demoed a User Story for feature X. This feature X worked exactly how described in the User Story from initial ...
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Facing “crunch time” for work project, need advice [closed]
So the discussion came up from management that we need product development to "accelerate" Some of us have done ridiculous crunches and so we know about diminished returns.
Fortunately management is ...
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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 to do when a sprint is finished early?
What to do when a sprint is finished early?
At the moment our Scrum team works off stories from the backlog, if the sprint is finished early.
What happens with stories taken from the backlog? 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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How do you balance the speed of Sprints with the customer's conservative adoption schedule?
I'd prefer to have sprints that last 3-4 weeks, but customers don't want to adopt new feature/function every 3-4 weeks. Existing customers are conservative and, once we meet their minimum bar for ...
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Confused about modifying the sprint backlog during a sprint
I've been reading a lot about scrum lately, and I've found what seem to me to be conflicting information about whether or not it's ok to change the sprint backlog during a sprint. The Wikipedia ...
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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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Handling “related” work within a single agile work item
I'm on a project team of 4 devs, myself included. We've been having a long discussion on how to handle extra work that comes up in the course of a single work item.
This extra work is usually things ...
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SCRUM from scratch, with no base framework established?
We are a small group of 5 people that is about to start a new project. This is the first project where we will go all-in on scrum.
We are struggling a bit with how we are going to establish a base ...
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Why is it suggested stories be sized to 2-3 days?
If sprints are on average 10 days, why is it often suggested stories be sized to 2-3 days?
Related Question: How to handle backlog-items that are longer than one sprint?
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Sprint Backlog Task Estimates - What Are the Hours Made Of?
For the sprint backlog, I read that the stories are broken into tasks, and estimated. Are these estimates typically development hours only, or development + QA? What are these hours typically ...
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How do I create a potential shippable product (PSP) at the end of a sprint?
I'm running a team of 4 developers and 2 testers and trying to abide by the Scrum principle of creating a PSP with every sprint. That means I need to create a potential release with all the user ...
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What happens between sprints?
I'm working on a project loosely following the scrum model. We're doing two week sprints. Something I'm not clear on (and don't have a book to consult) is exactly what is supposed to happen between ...
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What to do with unfinished stories and tasks in SCRUM sprint?
We have unfinished tasks which are part of stories in sprint. They are not accepted by the PO.
They must be included for the next planning of sprint.
Obviously the stories must be moved, but what ...
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Couple of questions about sprint in scrum methodology
Its a general title for the question but I have a couple of questions for the Sprint in a SCRUM methodology.
What happens if a HOTFIX comes in the middle of a sprint. e.g - The website crashes or ...
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Product Owner introduces ungroomed (unfamiliar, not estimated) User Story(s) into the Sprint Planning meeting
A problem that I am facing and would like some input into is; a Product Owner introduces ungroomed (unfamiliar, not estimated) User Story(s) into the Sprint Planning meeting.
The issue that this has ...
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How do I handle refactoring that takes longer than one sprint?
I work with a code base that is over 500K lines of code. It is in serious need of refactoring. There have been refactoring efforts identified that will take longer than the normal two week sprint. ...
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What to do if a team member misses a sprint planning?
Lets say a team member is on an annual leave. He won't be attending sprint planning but he will be back by mid of iteration/sprint. Lets say he has 50% capacity i.e. as he will be available for later ...
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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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Calculating last Sprint's Focus Factor
We have finished our Sprint in half the expected time and now we want to compute our focus factor to use in the next Sprint. Though, by doing the math by the book, we get an awful number. How are we ...
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How do you name sprints in your projects?
Some Scrum software management tools give you this option to explicitly name your sprints.
Do you have a preferred way of naming your sprints or do you just use a simple scheme like 1, 2, 3, ...?
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What's the ideal length of the sprint review/retrospective based on the length of the iteration?
I've been in several projects using scrum now.
The length of the sprint review and/or retrospective has varied from client to client, from project to project.
Some of the reviews became too long (2 ...
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Scrum on very short projects?
I'm using Scrum and really liking it. However, my shop finds itself in projects where the duration of the development effort is two or four weeks. We've already modified the sprint length to two ...
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Defer items during sprint or at the end of sprint
When tasks take longer than expected, why is it better to defer items during a sprint than to just defer everything you didn't finish on the last day of the sprint?
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who should move the sprint status to complete in agile scrum model
we ask the developers themselves to close the sprint once they completed the sprint. Just want to confirm, if it has to be closed by TL after he reviewed the tasks completion.
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Managing Production Issues during a Scrum Sprint
The question of managing bugs in production has been a large feature in my mind of late. Sprint's are not meant to have any items added into them, but for critical bugs, this is simply unavoidable.
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Sprint Meetings - What to talk about
In work we have just started using the Scrum methodology, it is working well but I have a question on the daily sprint meetings.
We set aside 15 minutes for the meeting (between the three devs and ...
