Questions tagged [agile]

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One Scrum team, with a shared product Backlog between three PO using TFS 2013

We have a Scrum team, which concurrently working on 3 products, each of products has its own PO and Backlog. We decided to combine all Product Backlog, which main all three PO add he's Backlog Items, added to the same Product Backlog, and team…
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Unfinished work / defects found in sprints of Agile Methodology

I have a number of doubts associated with Agile methodology. I'm assuming the sprint span is of 2 weeks. If tester gets a number of defects in the first half of second week which are of high priority, what should the developer do if there is a …
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JIRA/Agile: Wrong Sprint naming ? Or wrong methodology? Or ..?

I am some way through a project, on the 3rd sprint, which is about back-end processing. Let;s say the sprint name is "3. Data merging and form generation". I have 4 or 5 features in that sprint relate directly to that task, and I'm halfway though-…
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Bug or feature for a cosmetic change in Pivotal Tracker?

If I need to fix something cosmetic in my application (e.g. fixing the color of an element), should this be marked as a bug or as a feature in Pivotal Tracker? Note: even though it's cosmetic, that doesn't mean that this fix will be trivial.
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Accepting the sprint in the Review meeting? And some other Review questions

My company has implemented a new process of having the team be responsible for the Definition of Done inside of the sprint. In the Sprint Review meeting the PO is shown the work for the first time and they go through each issue in front of the team…
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Best way to modify my sprint

let me paint for you the scenario in question: I'm working through my weekly sprint using Trello. My board: is up-to-date. Alas! Here comes a new business-critical feature requirement (e.g. Dancing hamster animation). I'm only 2 days into my…
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Requirements gathering and specification writing

The last time I wrote a specification was years ago, using a waterfall method. I am now about to gather the requirements for my first Laravel project, I am working as a lone developer. How is everyone else doing this? I was thinking of getting an…
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The Perfect Checklist - AGILE

I'm starting a new interesting project and, with my team, we are looking for a way to define the our checklist in order to have clear ideas (as much as possible) on what we have to do in order to release a feature starting from a user story. I've…
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Can Sprint Planning and Review be combined?

Nowadays I am learning about agile process. I am learning all the agile stuff. I was talking to one of my friends and He asked me, can we have both sprint review and planning together. I was speechless when he asked me. Can any one tell me whether…
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Updating User Story Points after completing User Stories

As User Stories are completed throughout a Sprint, the amount of actual work required can be tracked as a metric. In some cases, the amount of actual work will be either greater or smaller than the original user story point estimate. In those cases,…
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Managing New Application Requests

At the moment we are a small development team of 2. All our software is used inhouse. Currently staff just walk to our desk when they want new software developed or when they want new features added to existing software, or when bugs arise. I am…
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In Scrum, where are detailed requirements captured?

I always hear that a user story should be very short and clear, so it can be written on a note etc. Like "As a user, I want to be able to enter, modify and delete people in the directory". But for testing, we need to know: What are the fields, what…
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Agile Web Development

I'm looking for some resources and information around agile web development. I have done a search and found a wiki page and lots of other sites around the subject. Most of these sites are orientated around Ruby on Rails. Does anyone know of any…
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Should I unit test the base method is called?

I have two classes public abstract class BaseClass { public string PropertyA {get; set;} public virtual object CopyProperties(BaseClass other) { other.PropertyA = this.PropertyA; } } and a class which inherits from it public class…
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How to do smart resource planning for short Agile/Sprint cycles?

We use scrum technique to plan for short development lifecycle. It is very common that sometimes tasks gets moved or reallocated or deferred from the current sprint for multiple reasons. In that case there is a chance of resources getting freed up…
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