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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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Scrum vs. Agile vs. CMMI

I am pushing my project over to Visual Studio Online in order to have some source control. I am developing this project by myself. I have never used Scrum, Agile, nor CMMI before, and the detailed description I read seems to assume a lot of…
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How to document undefined behaviour in the Scrum/agile/TDD process

We're using a semi-agile process at the moment where we still write a design/specification document and update it during the development process. When we're refining our requirements we often hit edge cases where we decide it's not important to…
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How to handle a change in acceptance criteria for a user story?

I'm interested to find out how people deal with changes to acceptance criteria of user stories on a process level. Example: You write a user story with acceptance criteria for feature XYZ. That user story gets implemented in a sprint of release…
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Is there anywhere to archive off unfinished Bugs and PBIs?

In TFS 2010 ss there anyway to move items to a state or something which won't appear in the Product Backlog? We have 300+ Bugs and PBIs which are never going to be done at this stage. I've like to remove them from the Product Backlog but not delete…
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Scrum Product owner in TFS 2013

I use TFS 2013 with one team collection and I have a Project. This project uses area paths to differentiate between teams. So I have an area Path/Team lets call it "Inventing". This Inventing team has a Product Owner who should only do what a…
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How do I see multiple sprint board for different clients of a single project and get complete status of all features in TFS 2012?

Hi all TFS administration experts, I am a newbie in TFS administration so need some guidance. We have a small team working in a single project and we are using TFS 2012 and template is Microsoft Visual Studio Scrum 2.1. Initially the structure was…
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How is sprint capacity determined in JIRA Agile(Greenhopper)?

I am new to JIRA Agile (formerly Greenhopper) and am scratching my head on how it determines sprint capacity for planning and burn-down estimation. From what I gather, it is assuming the sprint capacity (lets say in hours) is equal to the total…
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How to manage to write first stories when applying scrum to a game?

I'm starting to add first user stories to my game backlog. My team has a rough idea of the game we want to create and we are ready to gather top level requirements. How do you do this? I mean, for example you can start with a mega epic (top level)…
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Can a user story be a request for information?

I'm starting with Scrum. I have read about it but as a newbie I feel uncomfortable about a lot of things. These days my team is starting the creation of a new game. We know the key elements of the game but we don't really know how they will really…
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Can a task done for next sprint be classified as a spike?

If all the user stories for the current sprint are completed and we work on a task that will be for the next sprint, then how can we classify it? Can it be called as "Spike"?
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TFS Scrum Burndown showing ideal line finishing above zero

I am using TFS 2013 and the Scrum 3.0 project template. I have recently upgraded our TFS 2013 server to TFS 2013 update 2, in order to remove the weekends from our Sprint burndown graph. The problem I have now is that the 'ideal' line no longer…
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Which open source scrum tool to choose?

We are searching an open source scrum agile tool which can help us to do the reporting and manage our agile developments. We need your help to find and choose the best tools
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Is it posible to create a custom burndown chart in visualstudio.com

I am very new to using SCRUM in VisualStudio.com and I need to create a Burndown Chart of only certain Tasks. (for example a burndown of only the Developmente tasks or only the tasks that assigned to Developer A and B) To try to achieve this I…
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TFS 2012 Scrum - Sprint cycle showing incorrectly in the backlog page

We started using TFS 2012 recently for SCRUM methodology and below is our current structure. We have issue with showing the sprint cycles in the Product Backlog page: > Team Project 1 > |_Iteration 1 > |_ Sprint 1 of Iteration 1…
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How to UnCommit to a PBI

I have a PBI that is Committed. Linked to it, I have 6 Tasks. Two are finished and Four are not even started. It turns out that we won't be finishing this, but might pick it up in a later sprint. We will not be moving it to the next Sprint. If I…
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