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Does Scrum alone = agile?

I'm hearing about a lot of companies that act like they're agile but the only agile thing they do is the Scrum process. Is this enough to be considered agile? Using Scrum alone seems like the perfect excuse for a bad manager to get more meetings…
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Agile, Waterfall, Scrum... how difficult is it to transition a team into iterative development?

What are the challenges of transition a team in a corporate atmosphere from a traditional non-iterative, spec list, gantt chart, phase dependent team to a more iterative approach? Moreover, what was a successful way to gain acceptance with other…
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How to manage multiple teams using Visual Studio Scrum 1.0 and TFS

We are using Scrum 1.0 with TFS to manage our project. There are 2 (soon to be 3) teams who work on different Sprints at the same time. This seems to cause problems for TFS though as the Sprint Burndown charts become skewed and completely…
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Paying off technical debt in Agile

If you are using agile, the idea is to always be doing incremental refactoring and never build up large technical debt. that being said, if you have an agile team that is taking over software that has a decent amount of technical debt, you have to…
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What tools provide burndown charts to Bugzilla or Mylyn?

My team and I need to work on a project whose bugs are filed in Bugzilla, using Mylyn. Do you know of any tool or plug-in that provides scrum-inspired burndown charts to Bugzilla or Mylyn? Hopefully, this tool would be free for commercial usage, but…
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Avoiding local optimisations in an agile project

I'm very positive towards agile development, and have worked on agile projects on and off for about 13 years. But I have a concern that I've never really been able to address. It doesn't always seem to manifest, but it has bitten me a few…
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What is a good way to implement an agile database process, which is in synch with the code base, especially in regards to continuous integration?

The project I am working on were are trying to come up with a solution for having the database and code be agile and be able to be built and deployed together. Since the application is a combination of code plus the database schema, and database…
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Where can I find Nokia Scrum Test?

Is the Nokia Scrum test available online? I could find link to the modified Scrum test by Jeff Sutherland but unable to locate the link to original Scrum test by Nokia.
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JQL to retrieve all stories and sub tasks related to specific epic

Is it possible to use raw JQL (not using any plugins) to filter for ALL stories AND their respective sub-tasks? Currently, I have the following which successfully retrieves all stories for EPIC-123: project = PROJ1 AND "Epic Link" = EPIC-123 AND…
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JIRA JQL: Issues resolved in the current sprint

I would like to be able to filter for issues that are have been resolved in the current sprint. Generally this would be used to prevent issues resolved in a previous sprint but delayed in testing (not reopened) showing up when we are discussing what…
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Staying Agile in a waterfall

We have a large enterprise application where projects are scoped designed and finally coded using a formalized waterfall process. I am often given code changes for non related initiatives just because they are in the same section of code. All…
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Personal tool for authoring & organizing user stories?

My company uses Jira for storing requirements, which are written in the form of User Stories ("As a ... I want ... So that...") with details in the subtasks ("Given ... when ... then..."). I write requirements, usually an iteration ahead of the…
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When is an agile iteration considered complete?

I am working on a team that is exploring the possibility of adopting agile development practices. One question that we are running up against is deciding when an iteration (sprint) should complete. Let's say we've defined our feature backlog, and…
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Big picture planning with Agile

I did some fairly thorough reading and searching through SO and didn't find anything on this topic, so hopefully I'm not creating a dupe. If this has been asked before I would appreciate a link. I work for an enterprise development shop that is…
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System stories for agile architecture

While trying to apply agile principles to our development process, in particular scrum principles and XP-like user stories, we faced a problem about the architecture. Maybe we are still too much linked to the architecture-centric development,…
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