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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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Should all agile epics be titled in sentences?

I'm reorganizing my agile board on youtrack and am trying to conform to the industry best practices however I would much rather call an epic "User Profile" as opposed to "A users can view their own and other users information and content on their…
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How and when in SCRUM do you establish the team and its size?

We develop products and want to use SCRUM for development. We start with business case, high-level business analysis and technical outline that all contribute to and form the backlog items. So after a month or so, we have the high-level features…
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What are the issues for a developer being a part of multiple scrums?

I am working in 2 scrums as a developer, and it is difficult get anything done - I wanted to ask if other people have had the same issue and what did they do to manage their work? It does not seem an agile way to work at all.
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Scrum Time Estimation - Team Size

We have a team of about four developers working in Scrum with two week sprints. We use YouTrack and when performing time estimation in Sprint Planning, we hit the two weeks of work quickly. The issue is, for example, developer John will pick the…
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unable to see PROGRESS STATUS in type STORY

Project Type: scrum type request is of type STORY, I'm unable to see PROGRESS STATUS in the request. Default Story Screen is also set, but screen also I'm unable to see PROGRESS STATUS as field. Here's a twist, if i create another story in the same…
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Should the scrum master and product owner exclusively manage stories and velocity

Hi I am currently in a Scrum Team where the Scrum Master and Product Owner exclusively decide which stories a team will work on for a sprint. They are also exclusively responsible for analysing the accuracy of estimations and measuring velocity. I…
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Is this approach 'agile'? Separating use-cases into sprints/iterations

This may be a weird question and please bear with me, I am completely new into this. I have a list of 20 requirements (use cases) which I received from my client. With him, I prioritized this list of requirements (1 highest 3 lowest). I wrote for…
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Scrum user stories for rebuilding an existing web site

I am having second thoughts about using Scrum for rebuilding an existing site from scratch while maintaining some of the features from the previous site. While we're still in the "re-discovery" phase of the project, I am wondering if could I include…
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AGILE user stories for requirements gathering?

Would like to ask on how would you write user stories where your initial set of tasks is to analyze or gather requirements. A little background, let's say a client has a legacy application where they would like to have it converted to an online app.…
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Scrum - How to get better input from the functional/commercial team

We are a small team of 3 developers (2 experienced but new to this particular business sector) developing a functionally complex product. We're using Scrum and have a demo at the end of each sprint. Its clear that the functional team have plenty…
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How to do a good sprint planning for "black-box" items - Scrum

The company I work for uses scrum methodology, Before each sprint, we do a sprint planning, sprints are 3 weeks long. I find myself many times getting items, I should break down to tasks and PRICE it with development / QA days, as that's what we do…
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Agile development and the "wish list"

We're trying to implement some agile/lean practices in our software development, and one thing I've read is not to maintain a long "wish list", but to keep the product backlog as short as possible with detailed notes only about the things near the…
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Using scrum for developing new updates for a released software

Hy Guys The last few days I've been reading some articles and blogs about scrum. But I'm not quite sure if scrum would fit for our process. In our company we have our own developers for our sofware wich is used by engineers (about 100 engineers).…
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Can a Release have multiple iterations under it in Scrum?

Question: In Scrum methodology, is it possible to have multiple iterations before a product is considered shippable for a release? I think Release and Iteration should have a one-to-one mapping so that at end of every iteration a product is ready…
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Scrum as a software development methology

Which organisations are best suited for use of Scrum methodology and why?
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