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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 implement Scrum?

We're trying to switch to Scrum as our development process but we're not sure how to implement it in the best way possible. We also don't want to pay for expensive software tools until we get scrum working and get positive results. How can we…
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Do you count the hours spent on bug fixes towards the scrum?

HI, I am new to the scrum methodology and looking for some help to get comfortable with the environment and wondering if there needs to be a bucket to track Developers and QA hours spent on deployments and bug fixes and retests. Seems like it could…
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Best practice for Scrum "done" concept in JIRA

I work at a small service based company where we are starting to implement Scrum practices, and we are also starting to use JIRA with greenhopper for issue tracking. Our team has defined "done" as: coded unit tested integration tested peer…
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scrum and refactoring

If everything in scrum is all about functional things that a user can see is there really any place for refactoring code unrelated to any new functional requirements?
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Bad habits of your Scrum Master

Scrum is quite popular dev.process these days and often Project Manager suddenly gets new title (Scrum Master). However it should be not just a new title, but new habits and new paradigm. What are the bad habits of your Scrum master?
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Should you include non-development tasks in your Scrum backlog?

We're having trouble incorporating certain types of tasks into our product and sprint backlogs: Meetings with clients Training and knowledge-sharing Administrative tasks Some of these aren't directly related to the project, so it's easy to put…
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Burndown chart shows no data in TFS

I have on my project many PBIs and each PBI has tasks with remaining work filled in. I have finished some of my tasks, others are not started and others are in progress. However, the burndown chart is not showing anything. Not sure exactly what I am…
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How to blend CMMI and Scrum?

I work in a shop that is certified at CMMI level 5. This certification is important because it gives us access to certain customers and contracts. I'm looking at how to blend Scrum with CMMI. I've found some info on mixing Scrum with CMMI-3, but…
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Scrum. Dealing with low prioritized stories that will introduce architecture change

today in the university we had a Scrum practicing exercise (simulating the whole process of creating a software solution) and I came up with an issue that couldn't quite understand. Let's say we've had defined our stories and give them a proper…
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What are the major benefits of scrum as a methodology?

I work in the technical department of a design agency. We use XP to manage our department's software development. I have been asked to give a short presentation describing Scrum and whether it would be suitable, in a broader context, for managing…
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kanban scrumish tool(s) to get started

After investigating a little bit scrum and kanban, I finally read this answer and decided to start using kanban, picking something from scrum (note that I'm working mostly by myself, and I do have read this question and its answers). Now, my…
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Scrum : a good method only for teams with "full time on sprints" developers?

We are a software development company. We have introduced Scrum. The problem is that developers can’t spend full time on Scrum sprints like a lot of other companies. They have to do a lot of no-development, out of the SCRUM project tasks ! I've read…
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How do you apply Scrum to the design part of web development?

I'm starting to learn about Scrum, and I'm interested in trying it out with our development team. I have a lot of questions about it...but my biggest mental roadblock is in the actual graphical design. With our current development cycle…
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Can I use the Use Case Diagram in SCRUM?

I'm starting a project with a team and we're using SCRUM as methodology. It's my first time with SCRUM. We have listed our functionalities and we made our stories, (user stories and technical stories as well as their tasks). I've a tight UML…
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Scrum: too much or not enough?

My company has recently started using Scrum; we've done 2 sprints. We're still learning, but we've definitely exposed and fixed some problems in our development process already. So in general I think it has been good for us. In reading many of the…
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