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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's wrong with my Scrum TFS charts?

The Sprint Burndown Chart says I have about 150 hours outstanding. The Sprint Cumulative Flow Chart suggests that I have about: 100 hrs 'Not Done' 150 hrs 'In Progress' 50 hrs 'Ready For Test' If I sum up the actual SBIs in the sprint I get the…
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How to implement Scrum with three similar web-based products

I am somewhat familiar with the concepts and benefits of Scrum. With that in mind, I am trying to improve the failing Scrum product management structure of a company I'm now working for that has three separate B2C products, catering to the same…
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Managing shared product backlog items across multiple platforms

I am using TFS 2012 to develop a application that will be available as a website and a mobile application, i.e. Windows Phone, Android, etc. While I've been building up a list of features for this application I've noticed that a lot of them will be…
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Some effective way to document a Scrum project?

It sounds strange, but that's what I need. An effective way to document a Scrum project. I agree that it's a waste of time to produce User Stories and a Requirements Documents. But sometimes we need to have the vision of how the software currently…
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Estimating tasks using points

I recently started working in an environment where task estimation is done using points. I failed to find any resources that underline the benefits of this process so I must turn to SO community to figure out what they are. If any of you have worked…
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Do you have offshore Development/QA team members (which work for a different corp.) as a part of onshore Scrum Team?

Considering the offshore Developers/Testers work for a different company, would you recommend for/against having them in the onshore Scrum (first ever) effort? i.e., Just have the internal developer working with them on a daily bases to represent…
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When using Jira, how do I ensure each team member has enough work in a sprint?

While doing planning sessions using Rapid Board what are some reasonable ways to make sure each person on the team has a decent enough amount of work for the length of the sprint? e.g. if you have 10 people on the team, how can you quickly see if 1…
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Need lightweight issue tracker for project

I need a lightweight issue tracker for a new project, with about 5 people on the project. Any recommendation? I read the two other threads on that topic, but it didn't seem satisfactory. I don't need to integrate with git. I just need something…
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Deployment strategy for Scrum

According to Scrum at the end of a sprint, we have to create a working solution (build, concept, code). For example, the sprint duration is 1 week, and according to priority we need to pick up an issue that may take more than one week. We are using…
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How to handle unforeseen tasks that to have to be finished during the current SCRUM sprint

During our sprint we discovered that we needed to finish some unforseen, but absolutely neccessary tasks to complete. How do you handle these as best practice ? Should I create this task on the sprint backlog and put the completed hours in it ? Or…
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Is it possible to edit Reports in Visual Studio 2010?

I want to edit the Velocity Report generated with Visual Studio 2010s scrum template. How can I edit it?
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How should we name PBI's that have been split up across multiple sprints?

After stopping our current sprint we need to move a lot of items to the next sprint. This raised some questions where we, as new scrum users, did not find an answer to. We understand that we need to create new PBI's and move the tasks which are…
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Visual Studio Scrum 1.0 Sprint Burndown report not showing To Do tasks

Why is the Sprint Burndown report not showing To Do tasks? I'm not seeing anything in the Sprint Burndown report for the current sprint. Nearly all Tasks have State of To Do. and all have estimates. All the Task also have Iteration set to the…
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Issue applying agile methodologies

When using an agile methodology on a team programming project, what should be done when several people needs to work in something that is to be used by everyone. For example, There is a User entity, and two people have to do requirements that need…
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Scrum - How should part time developer's progress be visualized in the burndown chart

We have up to several team members that does not work 100% on our team. You might argue that this is a bad idea in the first place, but lets assume we can't do anything about it. I have had a discussion with one of the other team members, and my…
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