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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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What is the best tool for scrum in TFS

I'm currently giving a try to the new Visual Studio Scrum template and I'm looking for a the best approach and tools to enhanced product backlog management and tracking work progression. Any suggestions?
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What is the best way to handle multiple projects when you have a single development team?

Is Agile/Scrum the answer? How does Scrum handle this? One Product Owner, One PRoduct Backlog vs Multiple Product Owners and Product Backlogs? How is it working for you? Please share your success failure stories? I am trying to put a process…
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How does a Scrum Master "manage" an out of control Product Owner?

I new to Scrum and while I understand the team concept behind the Sprints, I imagine there still needs to be a guardian for the team who minimizes the interference from Product Owners who are not conversant in software development. What are your…
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How do I manage specs in Scrum?

Referring to this buddy question, I want to know how one can manage specs in Scrum process ? I'm facing this problem while assigning tasks to my team for the sprint. Needless to say - I'm new to Agile/Scrum. Currently, we are using our own specs…
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What are work areas used for with the scrum methodology

On visual studio online there is an option to configure work areas. I created a project and it uses the "Microsoft Visual Studio Scrum 2013.4" process template. I started entering work items into the project and found an option to configure work…
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Changes to the user story after the sprint has started

What types changes/additions/further clarifications do you think are ok to make to a user story? what changes/additions/further clarifications do you think are not ok to have happen to the user story?
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Scrum and requirements

You can't just have user stories somehow the functionality of the program has to be documented. Do you end up with a specifications document with scrum? If you do do you end up assigning time to do this onto the task? An example would be a complex…
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Best way of using Scrum and Sprint for Infrastructure improvement

Does anybody use Scrum & Sprint for Infrastructure. I'm struggling with the concept of a Sprint that never finishes i.e. a Network enhancement project. Also any suggestions on how Item time can be built up to a Product Backlog, so that I can sanity…
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Conchango vs MS agile template on TFS 2010

What is the diff between Conchango and the builtin agile template in TFS 2010. Any recommendations ? Thanks
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Balance between project managers and developers?

Right now, my project is slightly requirements starved; the project managers can't get good requirements as fast as we can build them, so we're being less efficient than we probably could be. How many developers per project manager makes for a good…
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Story map or flat backlog?

I struggle on creating good visualization/tracking for my scrum project and are therefore considering several alternatives. One interesting concept is Story Mapping. Do you have any input on using a story map instead of a flat backlog?
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What is the best way to manage a user story that spans accross sprints?

We are following Agile SCRUM methodology in the project and we came accross a huge user story that spans accross 2 sprints. How do we report this item in the burn down chart? Which sprint backlog should this user story belong to?
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What agile practices are appropriate in a small team?

So I find myself working for a few weeks in a small team of four, including me. Quite a change from my last job at a 300+ developer shop where I'd been part of the adoption of an agile methodology. I've been sneakily introducing useful tools like a…
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I'm starting an opensource project. Any advice?

First of all, I reviewed this question, but I think I need a little more information since I've never worked on an opensource project before. I'm starting an opensource project, currently hosted on Google code. It is a framework for creating flash…
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Microsoft Scrum Process Template 2.1 vs 2.2

Visual Studio TFS Update 2 updated the Scrum Process Template from 2.1 to 2.2. Unfortunately, I was unable to find any information on the exact changes. What changed between the versions? And, more importantly, how can I determine what changes are…
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