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Do you count the hours spent on bug fixes towards the scrum?

HI, I am new to the scrum methodology and looking for some help to get comfortable with the environment and wondering if there needs to be a bucket to track Developers and QA hours spent on deployments and bug fixes and retests. Seems like it could…
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Does ITIL fit into an Agile world?

Our IT manager is pushing for ITIL, I'm only loosely familiar with it and wanted to know if ITIL fits into an Agile work-cycle well? From my initial impression I would assume no, mainly because what our manager is proposing is to put timelines…
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Bad habits of your Scrum Master

Scrum is quite popular dev.process these days and often Project Manager suddenly gets new title (Scrum Master). However it should be not just a new title, but new habits and new paradigm. What are the bad habits of your Scrum master?
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git flow releasing selected features

I am trying to introduce Git flow to my team. We are a fairly small team and quite agile. We want to release once a day and this means we have limited time towards testing all the changes in the day. Business team wants to be able to control the…
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How to adapt agile to different companies? An MBA thesis

My master's thesis is to look at how to apply agile. There is an awful lot of corporate selling of agile - lots of management consultants selling their brand as 'best'. I'm not interested whether XP, Scrum, Crystal Clear, Agile-CMMI, Six Sigma or…
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Should you include non-development tasks in your Scrum backlog?

We're having trouble incorporating certain types of tasks into our product and sprint backlogs: Meetings with clients Training and knowledge-sharing Administrative tasks Some of these aren't directly related to the project, so it's easy to put…
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Agile - When does it work well, and when doesn't it?

Our team is debating whether we want to become Agile or not. None of us are really fluent in Agile. I'd like some thoughts on when Agile works well, and when it doesn't. To give a little background, we are a small group of developers, six in total.…
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How to blend CMMI and Scrum?

I work in a shop that is certified at CMMI level 5. This certification is important because it gives us access to certain customers and contracts. I'm looking at how to blend Scrum with CMMI. I've found some info on mixing Scrum with CMMI-3, but…
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Scrum. Dealing with low prioritized stories that will introduce architecture change

today in the university we had a Scrum practicing exercise (simulating the whole process of creating a software solution) and I came up with an issue that couldn't quite understand. Let's say we've had defined our stories and give them a proper…
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What are the major benefits of scrum as a methodology?

I work in the technical department of a design agency. We use XP to manage our department's software development. I have been asked to give a short presentation describing Scrum and whether it would be suitable, in a broader context, for managing…
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How do you apply Scrum to the design part of web development?

I'm starting to learn about Scrum, and I'm interested in trying it out with our development team. I have a lot of questions about it...but my biggest mental roadblock is in the actual graphical design. With our current development cycle…
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Agile manifesto principle not understood

what is the intention of this: Simplicity--the art of maximizing the amount of work not done--is essential.
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Scrum: too much or not enough?

My company has recently started using Scrum; we've done 2 sprints. We're still learning, but we've definitely exposed and fixed some problems in our development process already. So in general I think it has been good for us. In reading many of the…
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Agile development from a front end developer perspective

I have recently joined an Agile software enginerring consultancy as their sole front end developer. It appears to me that one of the features of the Agile process is that you don't forward invest in features but the way I am being asked to work is…
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YAGNI - The Agile practice that must not be named?

As I've increasingly absorbed Agile thinking into the way I work, yagni ("you aren't going to need it") seems to become more and more important. It seems to me to be one of the most effective rules for filtering out misguided priorities and deciding…
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