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Agile practices on embedded software development

I have had great success e.g. with fast development cycles and continuous integration. However, I think pair programming or continuous customer communication are less useful due to issues specific of embedded software programming. What do you think?…
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Can someone help explain Fit Testing to me?

So this is something that has been at the back of my mind for a while. I've seen mentions of it, I've read the fitness web page and I still don't quite grok it. It seems like Fitnesse is yet another testing framework like NUnit or MbUnit or any…
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What is the proper 'workflow' of modern React.js development?

Let's assume that I am a decent JS programmer. I can easily do React.js development. I also can write HTML and CSS to some extent. I cannot, however, build a webpage from the ground up, i.e. define the HTML structure (say in terms of React…
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Scrum Standup Format Improvements

We have been using Scrum for a few months and I have never felt that I get a huge value out of the standup meeting. When I leave the standup, I want to feel like I know exactly where we're at it in the sprint and that we are on top of the top…
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What does self organizing Scrum team mean?

What does the "self organizing" in "self organizing Scrum team" mean?
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Is it OK to have more than one role in a SCRUM process

Do you think it may be OK for a person to have more than one role in a software development company that wants to use SCRUM? E.g. is it ok/possible if a person is SCRUM master and team member Product owner and team member SCRUM master and product…
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Scrum Taskboard - can the tasks change?

The company I work for is currently looking to move from traditional waterfall into Scrum for development. We are in the process of slowly adopting what practices we can without fully making the move (we still have much to learn before we can fully…
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Can agile help a lone developer who codes as a hobby?

Agile development is a very useful methodology. Is it realistic to apply this to a lone developer who codes as a hobby (I also code for a living in a team where I have learnt agile from)? Things like stories, scheduled retrospectives, etc, can be…
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How can Scrum work when the development team is the support team as well?

What happens in Scrum when the development team is the support team as well? How can this be improved using Jira? We can't have a fire fighter because not all developers can solve both front-end and back-end issues. But the support issues make team…
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Architectural principles as "non-functional" user stories

I am about to start a pilot project in our company to introduce agile practices, including the use of user stories. After reading two books by Mike Cohn, Agile Estimating and Planning in particular and User Stories Applied, I now have a clearer idea…
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Showing Full Hierarchy on Agile Board

I'm using the Epic -> Story -> Task -> Subtask scheme, and attempting to view all of my issues, but... I don't think I can. Here's an example: Epic: Paladin - Level 60 Story (linked to Epic): Get to Level 10 Task (linked to Story): Do Level 1…
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Stategies for coping with schema evolution?

Currently we're using hand-rolled SQL in Data-Access objects and a lot of stored-procedures and triggers which amount to around 20k lines of code. We're finding that simple changes are causing a couple of days' work to fix, and its causing deadlines…
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VSO and multiple projects for a single product team

We have a team of around 10 developers working on a new product. We have split this product into two team projects on Visual Studio Online. Developers can work on both projects during any one sprint. Although we have two team projects, the entire…
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Taking learning into account in a development process

How to deal with the fact that you don't know the language/framework in a development process? For instance, suppose a group of Java developers are about to start a .NET project, they don't know the platform well and might end up finding solutions…
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Agile 40-hour week

Have you ever worked on a (full-time) project where using Agile methodologies actually allowed you to accomplish a 40-hour work-week? If so, what were the most valuable agile practices?
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