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Are there best practices for testing security in an Agile development shop?

Regarding Agile development, what are the best practices for testing security per release? If it is a monthly release, are there shops doing pen-tests every month?
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PHP Based Project Management Application (Scrum/Agile)

I've been fiddling with Redmine in the past few days and not 100% happy with the way it organises tasks etc. I need a open source PHP based solution that is like Redmine or even VersionOne to assist our small team of 3 developers with project…
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Agile/Scrum development: How do you handle "off" day?

Agile/Scrum development is a very collaborative development process. e.g. it requires developers to continuously communicate & work closely together day-in day-out. How do you handle your "off" days? Those days that you just don't have energy, can't…
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Time Tracking in Scrum

Note : Before asking this question I did an exhaustive search, and found little bits of the answer in various other questions, for example: What is the best resource for learning Scrum? Scrum Process Management - tips, pitfalls, ideas Two…
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Behaviour-Driven or Test-Driven Development?

I recently heard of BDD and found it very similar to TDD. Which of these two do you use (if any)? and which are the pros and cons of each?
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Is anyone using Kanban?

Is anyone using Kanban (or scrumban) for the agile management practices? What is your experience with Kanban? How does it work in large complex environments with dependencies on waterfall projects?
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When your scrum team has finished the sprint's work early, what are the official rules/guidelines for accepting more work?

Specifically, should you only accept new work you know the team can finish in the given iteration? Is it ok to start the next highest priority backlog item even if you know the team doesn't have time to finish it? Thanks!
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Six sigma quality management and software development

Is it possible to use Six Sigma Quality Management with Software Development Processes? What's your experience on that? If you're using an Agile method like Scrum or XP, isn't Six Sigma too bureaucratic? I'm talking about quality management on…
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In agile/scrum teams who is responsible for the choice of agile planning tools

What is your experience from real-life, who should be responsible for a choice of agile planning tools to be used by the agile/scrum team?
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Which agile practices are compatible with game development?

Lately I've been a lot into agile methodologies. Some papers I've read at Martin Fowler's website looked thoroughly unflawed to me to say the least, and I was wondering what agile practices are most suited to game development, particularly for…
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How do you make 'scrum' work when participants are 12 time zones apart?

Is it even sensible to try forming a scrum when one of the participants is in India (+05:30), and others are in the US (-06:00 and -08:00)? There isn't a comfortable meeting time for everyone with that.
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Scrum Terminology: What is the Difference Between a New Feature and an Enhancement?

The main thing I'm trying to answer is this: What are the distinguishing features between a "new feature" and a "product enhancement" when it comes to software development? Specifically, when applied to Scrum. Here are some possible criteria that…
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Do large enterprises utilize mocking/stubbing?

Has anyone worked at a large company, or on a very large project, that successfully used unit testing? Our current database has ~300 tables, with ~100 aggregate roots. Overall there are ~4000 columns, and we'll have ~2 Million lines of code when…
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Managing deployment and configuration tasks in Scrum

Just wondering how others out there are managing tasks not directly related to fulfilling user stories such as server configuration and application deployment (in a web application environment). Previously I’ve included these activities within the…
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Gathering Requirements with Scrum

My development team is working to the Scrum methodolody, pretty much. We have a prioritised product backlog, which we break down into sprints tracked by a burndown chart. Trouble is, the product managers (who gather requirements from the…
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