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Agile Development 101 Video

I've been trying to find a good video that I can show at a "Lunch and Learn" on Agile Development / Scrum. Our organization is primarily Waterfall and most people have never even heard of Agile development let alone have any concrete knowledge of…
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Selling TDD to the team

I have been doing TDD for the past 3 years. We were a small company, and we had very solid support for most aspects of the agile process from management. Everyone on the development team was sold on the process. And thus, the upfront investment it…
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Agile Whiteboard Software

Can anyone recommend decent software that could replace a physical whiteboard, as used in Agile development? I've had a look at http://www.brightgreenprojects.com/ but ideally we'd like something we could host ourselves. We use Jira for issue…
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Agile development

At university we talked about agile programming, but also how many agile methods aren't used in business, like pair programming. I would like to know which methods belong to agile programming (extreme programming, pair programming) and which are…
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Should I expect programming teams to follow a strict coding standard?

I am personally a very big fan of following internal coding standards when working with a group of developers. I feel like it brings continuity to the code and allows people to more easily expand the code base, switch off work, and assist each…
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Building PHP Competencies in an organization

This is not really a technical programming question, but has more to do with best practices and programming / project management processes. Here's some background information: I'm a consultant with an agile (scrum) software development company that…
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Is V-model testing methodology useful for Agile development teams?

Just attended a presentation where a testing company stated that V-model testing can be used in an Agile development team developing with java and c#. I would prefer testdriven development and automation of acceptance testing before V-model…
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Given a short (2-week) sprint, is it ever acceptable to forgo TDD to "get things done"?

Given a short sprint, is it ever acceptable to forgo TDD to "get things done" within the sprint. For example a given piece of work might need say 1/3 of the sprint to design the object model around an existing implementation. Under this scenario you…
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Agile Project Management

If one does use Scrum for the Software development portion of a project, does one still use PMBOK or some other project management methodology for the "other" tasks on a project e.g. the business, marketing, training tasks. What is the project…
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Should I split user stories on Frontend vs Backend tasks?

While applying Scrum, the product backlog items are users stories. I have created a sample story on TFS as follows: As a user, I can signup to system. I then created the following tasks: A login form should be prepared. User should fill all…
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YouTrack 4.x - How do you sort all task by priority in their swimlanes in the agile board?

Like the title says, is there a way to sort all tasks within swimlanes by priority? I thought you could do this via the search box up top by putting something like: order by: priority however it didn't seem to do anything (I used the auto complete…
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How should a junior developer handle standup meetings?

We are starting to adopt agile in a project we are about to begin. Although I am not actually involved in the development of this project, I am involved in the stand up meetings. Is it acceptable to say how you are learning a new technology (eg C#…
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Scrum in a fixed cost project

I have read the agile manifesto and spend a nice day surfing the web in search for this elusive answer. But sadly I did not get an answer that would cover all the bases. When watching all the blog posts and newscasts of Agile preachers, you just…
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How do you reference a line in another file using Code Collaborator?

In the chat box of file foo.cc I would like to reference a specific line in file bar.cc. For example, I have bar.cc:line 12 written in my code collab chat box In this case, code-collab only recognizes and allows the jump to bar.cc, but not to the…
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Scrum tools with github integration, suggestions?

Im looking for a great agile scrum tool that allows me to do histories, epics, and tasks, file uploads to histories or tasks, and integrate those with github commits, also it should allow to create graphics like time analytics per user and…
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