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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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How to manage agile development when the team is not stable?

I have been using agile approaches (XP and Scrum) for my projects for several years with great results. But in all cases, all members of the dev team were committed 100% to the project. Now I am faced with doing this when the team is not stable. For…
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How are tests handled by Scrum using TFS 2012?

We are, for the first time, trying to implement scrum on our company using TFS 2012. So far the process is not doing very well since we have questions that no one could find the answers so far. Our main concern is how to handle the tests phase.…
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Scrum - Are you a chicken or a pig?

As I am just learning about Scrum, it seems to me that for part of an iteration you may be a chicken but then become a pig when it comes time to do your part. Then go back to being a chicken. Is this correct thinking? That your stake in the…
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How well does Bugzilla work for managing Scrum projects?

We have MS Sharepoint -- which isn't all bad for managing a task list. The data's publicly available, people are notified of changes and assignments. I think that Bugzilla might be a little easier for management and reporting purposes. While…
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Pair Programming with an uneven number of team members?

Recently, we've come across an issue at work where if one person is working on some code by themselves, it seems to come out with the other team members looking at it and going "Huh? That's ugly, unmanageable, I need to rewrite that" In fact,…
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Scrum: who, when and how to breaks up the stories into tasks?

Who breaks up the stories into tasks? By scrum master? or by team members? When to break up the stories? before/during/after the sprint planning? How to break up the stories? By technologies, e.g. data-modeling, sql, or by use cases (each story may…
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What is and is not a user story?

I have an issue at work where we have just started using scrum as a development team. I am having some trouble with the user stories we are provided with in that they don't seem to fit what my interpretation of what a user story is. Here is an…
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What exactly are the requirements and tasks in Scrum?

I am using Scrum with a small team for the first time and I have gone through many presentations and documents explaining this agile method, but I still don't know exactly what a requirement should be and what a task should be! Say I want to develop…
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work-item tracking tools with drag-n-drop stack-ranking?

I'm looking for a work-item-tracking/bug-tracking system (or JIRA plugin, or TFS plugin, or...) which makes it easy to stack-rank work items without having to manually assign priority values to each work item. Instead, our team wants to be able to…
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Completed user stories - discard? archive?

We are starting to use a Scrum process for development. We have a nice stack of user stories now . I'm wondering though, once a user story is complete, tested and deployed do you do anything else with it? We're using little index cards right now,…
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Modify the columns of the Sprint Board in team foundation server

I am using MS Team Foundation Server to implemet Scrum and I would like to see the whole progress and add some columns in the board to be more clear and bright When I go to the public board of all PBIs, I can customize the delivery operation. I can…
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Should developers be allowed to participate in backlog planning processes?

I recently interviewed with a company which has started introducing Scrum for their development cycles. I asked one of the developers how their experience has been, and it sounds like they are completely divested from the planning process. He…
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How do you create a Sprint Work Item in the Scrum Template in TFS/Visual Studio?

This page talks about a Sprint Work Item in the Scrum Template in TFS/VS2010. However, I cannot figure out how to create a Sprint Work Item. What is the menu option I'm supposed to click? Where do I find this Sprint Work Item?
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Would you recommend TFS or another Continuous Integration system?

We have appointed a new team lead who will be starting in the next few weeks. He has previously worked with TFS and is likely to want to use that for CI. The team is new to continuous integration so will take any advice he gives. Is there any reason…
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Best Agile template for TFS 2010?

I've just installed TFS 2010, and would like to use TFS in the most Agile way. I've seen http://scrumforteamsystem.com, are they're any other good templates you can suggest? Cheers, Ash.
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