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Are acceptance criteria needed in stories that result from a breakdown of a main story?

When a Product Owner creates a story, as well as acceptance criteria, what needs to happen if the team decides to break down the story? Should the team decide on the acceptance criteria, as long as the acceptance criteria of the main story are…
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Single Dev team working on multiple product backlogs (Products)

We have one Dev Team (Approx 20 Team members) currently working on 5 products with 5 product owners (one for each product). We are struggling with story prioritization between different products and lots of meetings for the same. Below are the two…
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Agile Test Plan/Test Cases, lightweight alternative to IEEE 829?

I'm building a web application and am starting to create a test plan/test cases and results. I've had a look at the IEEE 829 standard http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IEEE_829 for creating the above and it seems a bit overkill really for my needs. Just…
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Scrumboard for Team Foundation Server 2010?

We're currently using Visual Studio 2015 Community and Team Foundation Server 2010. Are there any open-source C# projects that connect to TFS and display the workitems as a scrumboard?
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Does anybody know what companies are currently using agile iconix process?

Does anybody know what large companies are currently using agile iconix process??
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What is the best method to associate customers to TFS work items and bugs?

I'm wondering what the best method is so associate TFS work items and bugs to customers so we can track what customers are waiting on particular bug or work item. We have lots of customers using our product. If customers find a bug or request a…
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user story developers view

We have a set of user stories, and all the stories got confirmed with stockholders, then we assigned this user story to our development team, Question: How the user story document helps to developers? Because it’s not in detail level like…
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Entity Framework with Waterfall or Agile?

I've seen plenty of posts on the pros and cons of the EF but finding quite hard to find anything on the relationship between EF and project management methodologies such as Waterfall SDLC and Agile? Would anyone have any links or information on the…
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Should all agile epics be titled in sentences?

I'm reorganizing my agile board on youtrack and am trying to conform to the industry best practices however I would much rather call an epic "User Profile" as opposed to "A users can view their own and other users information and content on their…
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What are the issues for a developer being a part of multiple scrums?

I am working in 2 scrums as a developer, and it is difficult get anything done - I wanted to ask if other people have had the same issue and what did they do to manage their work? It does not seem an agile way to work at all.
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Scrum Time Estimation - Team Size

We have a team of about four developers working in Scrum with two week sprints. We use YouTrack and when performing time estimation in Sprint Planning, we hit the two weeks of work quickly. The issue is, for example, developer John will pick the…
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Should the scrum master and product owner exclusively manage stories and velocity

Hi I am currently in a Scrum Team where the Scrum Master and Product Owner exclusively decide which stories a team will work on for a sprint. They are also exclusively responsible for analysing the accuracy of estimations and measuring velocity. I…
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Is this approach 'agile'? Separating use-cases into sprints/iterations

This may be a weird question and please bear with me, I am completely new into this. I have a list of 20 requirements (use cases) which I received from my client. With him, I prioritized this list of requirements (1 highest 3 lowest). I wrote for…
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Synchronize Path Iterations in different TFS Projects

We have 6 Team Projects in the Company and we would like to get the iterations in all Projects with the same Start and End date. These iterations don't necessary have the same Name. By now I have done it manually in the web Interface and tried…
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AGILE user stories for requirements gathering?

Would like to ask on how would you write user stories where your initial set of tasks is to analyze or gather requirements. A little background, let's say a client has a legacy application where they would like to have it converted to an online app.…
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