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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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Alternatives to Jira in an Enterprise Agile Development Environment

We are using Jira to create transparency to management in our Agile Development cycle. We find it overly cumbersome and burdensome on developers, scrum master, product owners... although the charts produced are liked by management. What…
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Scrum Burn Down Charts: Tasks or Stories?

There are several ways to do burn down charts in Scrum. Some people suggest using the story points of unfinished stories left as your burn down charts in Scrum. Pro: Only finished stories lower the chart Contra: Chart doesn't move down in the…
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How to configure VSTS burn down chart to reflect story points

Is there a way in Visual Studio Team Services (online) to set the burn down chart to reflect story points rather than task hours?
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How to release with Kanban?

In Scrum, it is obvious that we could produce a demo after each sprint. I don't know how to produce demos in Kanban since it doesn't has the sprint concept (I may be wrong). Would you please enlighten me regarding how to make releases in…
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When should the BDD test scenarios be written?

I am looking into BDD testing within a scrum scenario and realise that the BDD scenarios are more akin to specifications than tests. Therefore should they be written before the developers go into pre-planning so that all of the functionality has…
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How to manage story points when there are a number of tasks?

I am trying to get my head around how story points are assigned to sub tasks and how the story points are managed in Jira. I have a user story which we have estimated at 25 points. A developer will take this user story and split it up in to a…
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Should I split user stories on Frontend vs Backend tasks?

While applying Scrum, the product backlog items are users stories. I have created a sample story on TFS as follows: As a user, I can signup to system. I then created the following tasks: A login form should be prepared. User should fill all…
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How to work unestimatable tasks into a scrum sprint?

I am the scrum master for a small team of 4 developers. The project we are working on has a lot of tasks that we have never done before and cannot easily estimate in a sprint planning meeting. What is the best way for me to run a sprint with this…
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Scrum in a fixed cost project

I have read the agile manifesto and spend a nice day surfing the web in search for this elusive answer. But sadly I did not get an answer that would cover all the bases. When watching all the blog posts and newscasts of Agile preachers, you just…
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Scrum tools with github integration, suggestions?

Im looking for a great agile scrum tool that allows me to do histories, epics, and tasks, file uploads to histories or tasks, and integrate those with github commits, also it should allow to create graphics like time analytics per user and…
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Reassign user story during sprint?

If a story is in progress and then swim lanes are code review and QA-ready, how should the assignment of stories work? Should a story remain assigned to the developer? And should the code review and QA tasks be created as sub-tasks in it? Or should…
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Scrum: Unfinished products and sprint velocity

Let’s say product X is worth 10 story points. Development starts in sprint Y, but is not completed in time. What do you with the story points when calculating sprint Y’s velocity? Would you: a. Allocate 0 story points for sprint Y and 10 points…
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Scrum: Resistance is (not) futile

I'm the second dev and a recent hire here at a PHP/MySQL shop. I was hired mostly due to my experience in wrangling some sort of process out of a chaotic mess. At least, that's what I did at my last company. ;) Since I've been here (a few months…
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How to implement CMMI level 2 with Scrum?

We are currently interested in implementing CMMI level 2 for our development processes. I've read some documents about CMMI and also Scrum. Personally I'm interested in Scrum as our native development processes because it can be easy for all team…
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Difference between Scrum and other Agile methods?

I am looking to introduce an agile method to my boss so that we could hopefully implement it at our work place. I've been doing a lot of research yet I can't find what makes it standout from other agile methods. I am thinking maybe it is the…
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