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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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Agile Myths and Misconceptions

What are the myths or misconceptions related to Agile? There are lot of misconceptions related to Agile that an average new comer may fall into. What are the misconceptions in the Agile world and how do you justify that it is truly a…
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Role of Testers in Agile?

I work in a team which has been doing the traditional waterfall method of development for many years. Recently, we've been told that future projects are going to be moving towards an agile (particularly Scrum) methodology. It so happens that my…
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Scrum - When do you Estimate the Effort for Product Backlog Items?

At which part of the Scrum process does your team make educated estimates as to the effort required to complete a given product backlog item? For example, say you have a product backlog item that says "The user will be able to supply their email…
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How best to do Agile Development with Trac?

We use Trac as our bug tracking / development / wiki system and I was wondering if anyone has experience and uses some of the Trac Agile/Scrum plugins or functionalities? Anything you'd recommend? Or would it be better to duplicate Trac tickets as…
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Kanban/Scrum Boards

I'm curious as to what other people use for physical Kanban/Scrum boards in their companies. I appreciate that because of sensitive business information you may not be able to provide a photo of the board. I"m looking at to find out what does your…
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Most suitable agile project management tool

I have been working with managing agile teams for quite some time. Now I'm at a company that no matter how hard I push for the fact that face-to-face is the way to go and that excel sheets works to get us going. But the company sees the…
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How do you apply Scrum to maintenance and legacy code improvements?

As the title suggest... How can I apply a scrum process to anything that doesn't work on new code and can be estimated to some degree? How can I apply a scrum process to maintenance and emergency fixes (which can take from 5 minutes to 2 weeks to…
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What is the difference between Scrum and Extreme Programming?

A few years ago I have worked on a green field project where we did Extreme Programming. I also see a lot of people mention the Scrum methodology. Could someone tell me the main differences between Scrum and XP?
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What is the difference between the Agile, Scrum and CMMI TFS process templates

I want to ask you a very simple Question "What is the difference between the Agile, Scrum and CMMI TFS process templates from a developers point of view".. I am creating a project in Team Foundation Server and it is asking me to chose a Project…
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TFS and Scrum - Best Practice configuration for Areas, Iterations, backlog iteration, sprint iteration

This set of questions tries to elicit a best practice answer on how to setup TFS 2012 Areas and Iterations with Scrum 2. Context: We've been using Team System since TFS 2005 and had initially created a Team Project for each product we have and then…
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Our code sucks and I'm powerless to fix it. Help!

Our code sucks. Actually, let me clarify that. Our old code sucks. It's difficult to debug and is full of abstractions that few people understand or even remember. Just yesterday I spent an hour debugging in an area that I've worked for over a…
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Your Scrum definition of Done

While Scrum is easy in theory and hard in practice, I wanted to hear your definition of Done; i.e. what are the gates (unit test, code coverage > 80%, code reviews, load tests, perf.test, functional tests, etc.) your product has to go through before…
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Does the Scrum process ultimately divest team members from their respective skills?

My organization has been experimenting with the introduction of more "Agile" methods. We've been trying the Scrum approach for a short while, and most of the team has, more or less, adapted to it. I like it as a whole, but I'm concerned about one…
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In Jira Agile when should I use a "Story" and when should I use an "Improvement"

We just started using Jira (with the Jira Agile plugin - Scrum template) for our issue tracker and agile planning. I am confused about the difference (or intended difference) between story and improvement. All our "stuff" is written as stories.…
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How to update current sprint team queries in TFS 2010?

We are using VS 2010 and TFS 2010 with the Microsoft Scrum Template. We use the Team Queries for the Current Sprint like the Sprint Backlog query. The problem is when we move to sprint 2 the "Current Sprint" still points to sprint 1. Is there a way…
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