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Scrum is an agile software development methodology developed by Ken Schwaber and Jeff Sutherland in the mid-1990s. Scrum is based on a "Sprint," which is typically a 30-day period for delivering a working part of the system. Each Sprint starts with a two to three-hour planning session that includes the customer (product owner), the facilitator (Scrum master) and the cross-functional team. The customer describes the highest priority in the backlog, and after the team agrees on how much of it to do, it is left alone to do it. To keep the team synchronized, there is a 15-minute meeting every day (daily scrum).

Scrum Roles

Non formal roles:

  • Stakeholders
  • Managers

See Scrum Roles

Scrum meetings

  • Daily Scrum
  • Sprint Planning
  • Sprint Review
  • Sprint Retrospective

Scrum process

Wikipedia Article

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Can Scrum work in the real world

The team I am working in has embraced scrum in a big way. I really like the idea of it, but find that we are constantly having to make compromises to fit with our development reality. This is making scrum less effective and causing other…
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Scrum Standup Format Improvements

We have been using Scrum for a few months and I have never felt that I get a huge value out of the standup meeting. When I leave the standup, I want to feel like I know exactly where we're at it in the sprint and that we are on top of the top…
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What does self organizing Scrum team mean?

What does the "self organizing" in "self organizing Scrum team" mean?
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Is it OK to have more than one role in a SCRUM process

Do you think it may be OK for a person to have more than one role in a software development company that wants to use SCRUM? E.g. is it ok/possible if a person is SCRUM master and team member Product owner and team member SCRUM master and product…
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Scrum Taskboard - can the tasks change?

The company I work for is currently looking to move from traditional waterfall into Scrum for development. We are in the process of slowly adopting what practices we can without fully making the move (we still have much to learn before we can fully…
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How can Scrum work when the development team is the support team as well?

What happens in Scrum when the development team is the support team as well? How can this be improved using Jira? We can't have a fire fighter because not all developers can solve both front-end and back-end issues. But the support issues make team…
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Showing Full Hierarchy on Agile Board

I'm using the Epic -> Story -> Task -> Subtask scheme, and attempting to view all of my issues, but... I don't think I can. Here's an example: Epic: Paladin - Level 60 Story (linked to Epic): Get to Level 10 Task (linked to Story): Do Level 1…
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Is It possible to write a TFS Query to get Actual Time Taken for a Tasks?

I have been using TFS to track my backlog items and I am now trying to write a query to see how long I took on particular tasks in the last 7 days. So Far I have this query: Work Item Type = Task AND State = Done AND Closed Date = @Today - 7 AND…
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VSO and multiple projects for a single product team

We have a team of around 10 developers working on a new product. We have split this product into two team projects on Visual Studio Online. Developers can work on both projects during any one sprint. Although we have two team projects, the entire…
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Improving user story quality

We use Scrum. We are experiencing problems during sprints when we find the user stories are not sufficiently granular to capture the effort required to complete the sprint. In particular, we find that we are supplied with UI wireframes that contain…
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Scrum Burndown Patterns

I'm in a 10 person team working on a large legacy code base with a less than ideal product owner. Our backlog is in pretty bad shape and large epics have frequently been breaking our sprints. The team also struggles with its definition of done -…
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What comes between the vision and a product backlog in scrum?

Not looking really for a book. I have seen lots of references and links to them. I can't buy one right now. I have been reading online, watching videos, etc. One thing so far I don't get. What comes between the vision (solution to the problem)…
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How to handle "tickets" during sprint planning

I work within an agile team. We have a released product and we are still working towards a future release. Every sprint we receive anywhere from 0 to 5 tickets to fix bugs in the released product. Our team is composed of software engineers (to…
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Scrum and Story Points - why ideal man-days not ideal man-hours?

I am used to thinking about time estimates in the way suggested by Joel Spolsky - that if a scheduled item takes more than 16 hours, it should be divided into smaller tasks. Now, I am implementing Scrum in my team together with Story Points based…
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Freeware/Opensource Scrum Tool for Project Management

In your opinion what is the best and most effective scrum opensource or freeware tool? I am interested in your opinion and I look so forward to manage properly my backlog :-)
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