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Difference between agile and iterative and incremental development

What are the difference between Agile and iterative and incremental development? Is Agile considered as iterative and incremental? Some info shown the Agile is the latest of iterative and incremental. I need a clear clarification on this.
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Best Kanban Tools

What tools for managing Kanban would you recommend?
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Breaking a project's first User Story in to tasks

I'm starting a new project from scratch and have written User Stores to describe how a given user will interact with the system. But, I'm having trouble understanding how to break the first user story in to tasks without the first one becoming an…
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Pair programming means double cost per developer. Is it worth that money?

Pair programming in Agile requires us to double the salary paid to single programmer. Of course with such approach the quality of the code is far cry better, bugs are found much earlier and so forth, but is that still worth that money? Maybe we…
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How did you sign a contract to an Agile project? (not how you think you would, how you did)

To execute an Agile project you first need a contract. No contract – no project! No project – no Agile, SCRUM or whatsoever! The contract, if we are talking about mid to big projects, must have well defined safety triggers. I.e. customers want to be…
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Set current Sprint or close existing sprint in Visual Studio Team Services (was TFS Online)

Used JIRA for a long time and have moved to Visual Studio Team Services. How do you close the existing sprint and start the next ..the dates ending does not automatically roll it forward to the next We are using SCRUM
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Where to find the best user story template?

I want to implement user stories in a new project where can i find a good template or other ones used in agile development?
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How do the Agile, Lean and Kanban methodologies relate?

I'm basically familiar with Agile methodology and Scrum. But what is "Lean Software Development" and "Kanban"? Is it safe to say that Scrum, Lean and Kanban are implementations of Agile methodology? Or are Lean and Kanban different methodologies?…
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Agile Myths and Misconceptions

What are the myths or misconceptions related to Agile? There are lot of misconceptions related to Agile that an average new comer may fall into. What are the misconceptions in the Agile world and how do you justify that it is truly a…
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Role of Testers in Agile?

I work in a team which has been doing the traditional waterfall method of development for many years. Recently, we've been told that future projects are going to be moving towards an agile (particularly Scrum) methodology. It so happens that my…
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How best to do Agile Development with Trac?

We use Trac as our bug tracking / development / wiki system and I was wondering if anyone has experience and uses some of the Trac Agile/Scrum plugins or functionalities? Anything you'd recommend? Or would it be better to duplicate Trac tickets as…
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Testing a Gui-heavy WPF application

We (my colleagues) have a messy 12 y.o. mature app that is GUI-based, and the current plan is to add new dialogs & other GUI in WPF, as well as replace some of the older dialogs in WPF as well. At the same time we wish to be able to test that…
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Can one person adopt Agile techniques?

Looking for work at the moment, I'm seeing a lot of places asking for Agile experience, but until I get a job with a team that is using Agile, I suspect I'll never get the experience. Is it possible to adopt Agile methodologies with just one…
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List of agile best practices

I am trying to define which agile practices we are going to use, and I am having difficulty defining the list of agile best practices. I would like my list to be more from a technical point of view (the engineer's angle of view), and should define…
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Agile development; on-line free tools!

We have been looking to implement Agile methodology within our geographically distributed development team, so i need suggestions on any free on-line application that you have used and find useful. Right now we are using paper cards and wall to…
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