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Agile in small bites: most bang for the buck

What single aspect of agile development should we implement first to improve our development process, and why? I'm in a situation that's requiring me to "tweak" my process, rather than re-engineer it, and "agile" seems to be the mantra of the day.…
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Successful projects using agile methods?

I have been interested in agile methods of late and have found a lot of prescriptions and minute descriptions of a lot of practices. Still, I remember my best projects as run-to-completion spikes followed by some debugging and minimal testing before…
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Scrum Burndown Patterns

I'm in a 10 person team working on a large legacy code base with a less than ideal product owner. Our backlog is in pretty bad shape and large epics have frequently been breaking our sprints. The team also struggles with its definition of done -…
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What comes between the vision and a product backlog in scrum?

Not looking really for a book. I have seen lots of references and links to them. I can't buy one right now. I have been reading online, watching videos, etc. One thing so far I don't get. What comes between the vision (solution to the problem)…
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Examples of using Doctests in Django in an Agile / BDD way

I'm interested in learning how to Doctests and Unit tests in a more Agile / BDD way. I've found a few tutorials that seem reasonable, but they are just thumbnails. What I would really like to see is the source code of some Django projects that were…
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How to handle "tickets" during sprint planning

I work within an agile team. We have a released product and we are still working towards a future release. Every sprint we receive anywhere from 0 to 5 tickets to fix bugs in the released product. Our team is composed of software engineers (to…
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Scrum and Story Points - why ideal man-days not ideal man-hours?

I am used to thinking about time estimates in the way suggested by Joel Spolsky - that if a scheduled item takes more than 16 hours, it should be divided into smaller tasks. Now, I am implementing Scrum in my team together with Story Points based…
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What is the Difference between CMMI and Agile?

Is there anyone who can tell me what is the difference between CMMI and Agile. I know some obvious difference, but I want to know it further. I will appreciate it a lot if someone can help me! Thanks!
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How to manage agile development when the team is not stable?

I have been using agile approaches (XP and Scrum) for my projects for several years with great results. But in all cases, all members of the dev team were committed 100% to the project. Now I am faced with doing this when the team is not stable. For…
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Working Solo On Small Projects: Cowboy Coding The Way To Go?

I am a big advocate of agile methods when working on teams and/or large projects. However, I find that for smaller projects, when working solo, I usually start the project writing unit tests, documenting extensively, refactoring. As time wears on, I…
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Continuous builds and Agile vs commit often

I'm just doing some formal training in Agile at the moment and one question I have is about the value of continuous builds vs value of committing to the version control system often. My understanding with version control is that its better to commit…
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Scrum - Are you a chicken or a pig?

As I am just learning about Scrum, it seems to me that for part of an iteration you may be a chicken but then become a pig when it comes time to do your part. Then go back to being a chicken. Is this correct thinking? That your stake in the…
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Pair Programming with an uneven number of team members?

Recently, we've come across an issue at work where if one person is working on some code by themselves, it seems to come out with the other team members looking at it and going "Huh? That's ugly, unmanageable, I need to rewrite that" In fact,…
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Which Continuous Integration library to use?

I've worked with Cruise Control as the CI framework in my last project. Any recommendations on some other tools? (Not that i found CruiseControl lacking, just wanted to know if someone did some comparisons)
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In agile dev, how do you organize user stories?

How do you go about organizing user stories? What I did was this for a web application: Made a title for a web page like 'index', then listed all the stores the user can do on this page. I continued on for all the pages. Is this the most effective…
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