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How to change to use Story Points for estimations in Scrum

Having used "days" as the unit for estimation of tasks in Scrum I find it hard to change to using Story Points. I believe story points should be used as they are more comparable to each other - being less dependent on the qualifications of whoever…
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Is being Pragmatic agile?

I just re-read The Pragmatic Programmer (my third time reading it...I get something new every time, too). It seems like the tips that they mention are related to many of the various Agile methodologies. Is Pragmatic Programming just another form of…
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How to write User Stories for technical implementation details?

I'm trying to work in a more organised way and started adopting user stories. I think I have misunderstanding of how should I use user stories for technical stuff. Let's say I'm coding an app that gives me the ranking of my site for a certain…
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How do you control architecture in an agile project?

How do you ensure that the project will be build with "good" design decisions enabling a flexible software architecture? How do you balance between completely leaving the architecture to the teams on one side, and let all architecture control to a…
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Agile development and architecture

How does a formal architecture specification fit in with agile development - if at all? I'm thinking specifically of Scrum, which makes no mention of an architecture amongst the official artifacts. Do you just let the architecture evolve…
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Looking for Free Agile Project Management Software

I'm going to be starting a .com. I'm in the pre-stages right now of creating a business plan. Once I start to code I want a free Agile based Project software to track my code and bugs. I'm using MS Project for just the Work Breakdown Structure…
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How do you avoid waiting for requirements when using iterative agile development methods like SCRUM?

We attempt to do agile development at my current job and we succeed for the most part. The main problem seems to be that the developers on the project are always waiting for requirements at the beginning of the sprint and rushing to get get things…
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Are there any alternatives to Rational Team Concert at the moment?

we are a team of about 100 developers working in an iterative development style. We are looking for a solution that will allow us to aggregate all development artifacts in one collaborative environment. Rationals Team Concert is bringing a lot of…
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How do you handle a pool of unrelated small bugs in Scrum?

We've recently adopted Scrum on the job and are running into trouble with a bunch of tiny bugs that appear after code has been accepted. These include things such as spelling errors, and other single line fixes. To create stories of size 0.5 for…
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How to find business related bugs early in software development practices?

I'm working with good group of very sharp developers on one of my client's premises. We are coding correctly around NullPointerException and other exceptions, so we don't have those. But when it comes to business rules we have some mistakes and…
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How do you structure a development sprint?

So I have a backlog of features and we are about to get started on a sizable project. I am working on defining the structure of our sprints and I'm interested in the communities feedback. What I'm thinking is: One day sprint planning Fill the…
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How to manage process for single man project

We have a single developer working on 3 different projects. He used to work on bug fixes, maintenance and few feature implementation. In one specific project, he works with one more junior developer. Our company wants to implement scrum for all the…
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Scrum - where do you do all the 'other' stuff?

With Scrum, there is the principal of user stories and these stemming tasks etc etc iterating around to a finished product - which is fine. But, let's say I have 100 features that need implementing, in the real world I can't put any developer on…
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Is there a way of measuring the cost of agile development without recording the amount of time it took you to do a task?

Picture the scene, a business is thinking about using the Scrum methodology for agile development. They have implemented the Scrum for Team Systems and everyone is very happy with it. However the business wants to capitalise their development cost…
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Can Scrum work in the real world

The team I am working in has embraced scrum in a big way. I really like the idea of it, but find that we are constantly having to make compromises to fit with our development reality. This is making scrum less effective and causing other…
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