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Agile - User Story Definitions

I'm writing a small app for my friend's business, and thought I'd take the opportunity to brush up on some Agile Project Management training I did at the start of the year. I (and I think, my current organisation!) have always struggled with…
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Functional Spec & Agile Processes

In traditional Waterfall, requirements were gathered - typically in a MS-Word document - following an esoteric template. In a "strict" waterfall model, this document is frozen after the requirement phase and a Change Control / Change Management…
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Is it truck factor or bus factor?

It seems that both these terms get thrown around a lot. Both, I think, describe the same idea. Which was established first? Also, it seems like some people describe it as a good thing to have a low x factor, while others describe it as a good…
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Card Wall + online card wall = duplication?

I'm not a great fan of duplicating effort. I do find, however, that there are benefits to tracking agile iteration progress on both a physical card wall and an online "calculator" (Excel, some scrum tools) or an online card wall (e.g. Mingle). I…
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How to integrate telecommuters in an agile process?

I'm sure that all of us have had to deal with telecommuters at some point in time, and I'm facing a situation now where my new project will have a "core" group of office workers and some off-site telecommuters. Not wanting to repeat past mistakes,…
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In agile/scrum user stories, how much detail is enough?

Enough detail is enough is the usual response. On the project we are currently busy with (which was incomplete and handed over to us without any brs/documentation/user stories of any sort, we get stories like: As a Product Owner I need the …
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What can a single developer learn from Scrum?

Let's say that a developer is interested in learning Scrum, but nobody else on the team is interested. I realize that Scrum is made for teams, and the process would have to be modified to fit a single person. Is there any benefit to be gained by the…
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Scrum: Technical items in a backlog that is managed by a non technical PO?

Should technical items such as "Upgrade sever from v1 to v2" or "Increase startup performance" or "Refactor login module to reduce code complexity" go in to the product backlog and if so how should a non technical product owner be able to prioritize…
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Unit tests in production release code?

Couple of questions: 1.) Do you unit test release code? 2.) If so, do you then leave those unit tests intact so that the tests themselves exist in the production environment? I see the value in #1, but is it a "good practice" to create dependencies…
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How should I implement User Stories in Bugzilla?

A few individuals at my work have come together to form a group whose goal is to analyze the benefits of implementing some Agile software development / project management principles. As a developer, I see great benefit in User Stories. We're…
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Specific examples of Agile documentation?

In an answer to the question Documents for a project?, Chris Ballance replied that "User Stories" and a "burndown chart" are the two most useful types of project documentation for a developer. My question is, do you know of any good example[s],…
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Sprint Work Items - Agile Scrum

What types of tasks can be included and tracked as work items in the Sprint Backlog? Can Analysis, Review and Unit Testing (of a user story) be included or can only core Coding tasks be included and tracked in the Sprint backlog? Basically I am…
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Agile (Scrum) adoption - how did it go?

For those of you who have implemented Scrum in your organizations, what were your biggest obstacles and if you did overcome them, how?
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Implementing User Stories the Agile Way

I'm a newbie to the Agile/TDD world and trying to get my head around some of the basics. This is related to the way I should go about implementing user stories. For e.g. lets assume I have below 2 user stories to start with for a hypothetical…
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Agile development and database changes

For those agile practitioners out there... How do you manage changes to a database schema during a project? My assumption is that in an agile project the schema of any database involved will change and be refactored just as happens with the…
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