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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 Terminology: What is the Difference Between a New Feature and an Enhancement?

The main thing I'm trying to answer is this: What are the distinguishing features between a "new feature" and a "product enhancement" when it comes to software development? Specifically, when applied to Scrum. Here are some possible criteria that…
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How to handle multiple projects in a small team

We just started to use scrum for our project management. We are a very small team (2 developers, 1 UI/Web-deisgner ) and we have a lot of running projects at once. How do you handle having multiple projects running at once in the scrum model? Most…
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Managing deployment and configuration tasks in Scrum

Just wondering how others out there are managing tasks not directly related to fulfilling user stories such as server configuration and application deployment (in a web application environment). Previously I’ve included these activities within the…
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Gathering Requirements with Scrum

My development team is working to the Scrum methodolody, pretty much. We have a prioritised product backlog, which we break down into sprints tracked by a burndown chart. Trouble is, the product managers (who gather requirements from the…
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Does Scrum alone = agile?

I'm hearing about a lot of companies that act like they're agile but the only agile thing they do is the Scrum process. Is this enough to be considered agile? Using Scrum alone seems like the perfect excuse for a bad manager to get more meetings…
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Agile, Waterfall, Scrum... how difficult is it to transition a team into iterative development?

What are the challenges of transition a team in a corporate atmosphere from a traditional non-iterative, spec list, gantt chart, phase dependent team to a more iterative approach? Moreover, what was a successful way to gain acceptance with other…
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Scrum, Kanban or Other for 4 person dev team

We have a four person development team that is in need of a formalized project management system. I have a general understanding of Scrum and Kanban but it's hard to truly understand until it's been tried. We don't have the luxury of trying one…
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Scrum, and Cross-Functional Teams vs. Specialists

Post edited for clarification (original post at the bottom). I wish to reorganize the R&D staff from horizontal (i.e. specialty or component based) teams to vertical (i.e. feature, self sufficient) teams. I'm likely to end up with 3-4 teams, with…
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How to manage multiple teams using Visual Studio Scrum 1.0 and TFS

We are using Scrum 1.0 with TFS to manage our project. There are 2 (soon to be 3) teams who work on different Sprints at the same time. This seems to cause problems for TFS though as the Sprint Burndown charts become skewed and completely…
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Where can I find Nokia Scrum Test?

Is the Nokia Scrum test available online? I could find link to the modified Scrum test by Jeff Sutherland but unable to locate the link to original Scrum test by Nokia.
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Is scrum fit for small organisation?

is it possible to convert their method to scrum in a small concern
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Sprint Lengths - 2 week vs 30 days

I want to implement Scrum, but I can't decide on a Sprint length. Ken Schwaber seems to relate that 30 days it the defacto... but I can't imagine waiting 30 days without the possibility of changing direction or reprioritizing. Our projects usually…
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TFS Sprint Item Print Plug-in

Does anyone know if there is a plug-in for TFS that will print out our sprint backlog items in a format suitable for using on a Scrum Board, rather than us having to write them out by hand?
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How big is too big for XP/SCRUM?

In the earliest stages of planning the development of a new system, which development model to follow seems paramount. I've always held onto the belief that a classic waterfall (or hybrid waterfall/iterative prototyping) is the best approach for…
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Predictive vs Reactive software design

I know that for me I first got started following the waterfall method of project management and along with that I went with the predictive approach to software design. In this I mean we had huge packets of documentation, UML, database schemas, data…
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