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Agile Software Development Wikipedia link

Agile Manifesto reads, in its entirety, as follows:

We are uncovering better ways of developing software by doing it and helping others do it. Through this work we have come to value:

  • Individuals and interactions over processes and tools
  • Working software over comprehensive documentation
  • Customer collaboration over contract negotiation
  • Responding to change over following a plan

That is, while there is value in the items on the right, we value the items on the left more.

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Scrum burn down charts, can they go negative?

I work on a small Agile development team which is part of a large, non-agile thinking corporation. Currently, we practise Scrum and occasionally, we exceed our sprint commitment. My question is, how do you handle burn down charts when you have…
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How to work scrum into an environment with multiple applications with daily client demands

I've read up on scrum and the company I work for has started using this. I find that laying out tasks really helps everyone to see what needs to be done and what to work on. One of the issues we're running into, is that we're just "trying out"…
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Are KISS and YAGNI at odds with the trends towards increasingly more sophisticated patterns and practices like SOA, DDD, IoC, MVC, POCO, MVVM?

It seems to me that Agile methodologies encourage us to keep things simple, and lean, and not add complexity and sophistication until its needed. But the pace and volume of technology change encourages the use of increasingly abstract, complex and…
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refactoring in iSeries (RPG), is it realistic

Implementing agile in projects requires the ability to do refactoring. It is not really a must, but code refactoring has proven to be a good engineering practice. In an agile (Scrum) project on the iSeries platform, which requires development (new…
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Add Queries to Team Favourites in the Process Template - TFS2012

We are using the Agile Process Template of TFS2012 (slightly modified) and I want to add queries to Team Favourites in the template so that they will be automatically added on creation of a new team project. We want to see the same queries for every…
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Integration card at the end of a user story (TDD)

Our team develops with TDD and when implementing new features sometimes at the end of the story when all cards turn green comes "the integration card", which means putting together the implemented components to play nice with each other. I feel bad…
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TFS 2012 Change Process Template

Is there a way to migrate from MSF Agile 6.0 to a Scrum process template in TFS 2012? We have migrated from TFS 2010 to 2012 recently and would like to change the process template without loosing history. I've heard about…
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Functional tests are superset of unit tests, are they?

I have been reading about unit tests and functional tests for a while now. If I write exhaustive functional tests, won't they in-turn cover the units underneath as well, which in-turn make the unit tests redundant? We follow agile and we write the…
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What is "Continuous Implementation"?

Is "Continuous Implementation" the name of a software development methodology? If so, what is it exactly? Do you have experience using it? Note that I know what continuous integration is, but not continuous implementation. Background: today I…
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Agile - database deployments

We are delivering a ground up rewrite of a core system with the delivery team working in a Scrum environment. Due to the size of the team we have now split into two scrum teams who aim to integrate code on a daily basis. Whenever the test team…
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Is 'mid-sprint' acceptance a valid concept in Agile/SCRUM?

I am part of an Agile scrum team working on a software product release. The sprint duration is 2 weeks (~10 days). There is a peculiar metric used here, called 'mid-sprint acceptance'. Essentially, the expectation is that half the user-story points…
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Queries in Agile process

How to determine the story point value in Agile methodology and determine the team velocity? In web search able to get the definition but not the actually process explanation.
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Agile - how do you document the app you built?

My question is after you write the initial user stories and then do months of "agile" back & forth with the business analysts/project managers how do you reverse engineer the actual requirements? Our QA lead is constantly frustrated asking us "how…
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Agile release management tools

What is better tool for agile projects with respect to continuous deployment - Go from ThoughtWorks or TeamCity from JetBrains?
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Why do my issues disappear from Epic Swimlanes in JIRA?

I have issues that show up in my JIRA project's backlog page, but they disappear when my board is using Epic Swimlanes. If the board is configured to use any other swimlane option, these issues appear on the board.
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