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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 and motivation

How can you stop the dev team from padding their numbers when it comes to creating task times? How is there any motivation for them to do their work if there are no real deadlines and they are just measured against their velocity. Get the job done…
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Using Scrum in fix-length/fix-priced projects?

I'm a Scrum newbie and looking to implement Scrum in my company. Obtaining buy-in is not a problem, it is my company and the developers are more than happy to work like this. The problem is that 75% of our revenue is derived from fixed length/fixed…
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Is it bad practise to work on multiple stories concurrently?

In a scrum team, how important is it to complete a single story before moving on? Our scrum master is fairly dogmatic about bringing a single story to completion before moving on. I can see that development would appear to be more "controlled" in…
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How to change to use Story Points for estimations in Scrum

Having used "days" as the unit for estimation of tasks in Scrum I find it hard to change to using Story Points. I believe story points should be used as they are more comparable to each other - being less dependent on the qualifications of whoever…
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Agile development and architecture

How does a formal architecture specification fit in with agile development - if at all? I'm thinking specifically of Scrum, which makes no mention of an architecture amongst the official artifacts. Do you just let the architecture evolve…
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Different meaning of stakeholders in Scrum. Is a dev team a stakeholder?

Generally, I have learned that stakeholders (in general) are parties interested in the project - development team, testing team, QA team, management, customer (of course) etc. But now in Scrum, it says that the stakeholders are the ones who validate…
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How do you avoid waiting for requirements when using iterative agile development methods like SCRUM?

We attempt to do agile development at my current job and we succeed for the most part. The main problem seems to be that the developers on the project are always waiting for requirements at the beginning of the sprint and rushing to get get things…
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How do you handle a pool of unrelated small bugs in Scrum?

We've recently adopted Scrum on the job and are running into trouble with a bunch of tiny bugs that appear after code has been accepted. These include things such as spelling errors, and other single line fixes. To create stories of size 0.5 for…
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Estimating Time on Tasks

We have just started doing scrum at my company. We are spending a bit of time estimating Effort using planning poker and then when the detailed tasks are worked out a time estimate is put on each task. The problem we have is that the time estimates…
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How to manage process for single man project

We have a single developer working on 3 different projects. He used to work on bug fixes, maintenance and few feature implementation. In one specific project, he works with one more junior developer. Our company wants to implement scrum for all the…
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Scrum - where do you do all the 'other' stuff?

With Scrum, there is the principal of user stories and these stemming tasks etc etc iterating around to a finished product - which is fine. But, let's say I have 100 features that need implementing, in the real world I can't put any developer on…
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Is there a way of measuring the cost of agile development without recording the amount of time it took you to do a task?

Picture the scene, a business is thinking about using the Scrum methodology for agile development. They have implemented the Scrum for Team Systems and everyone is very happy with it. However the business wants to capitalise their development cost…
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Best practices when using Sharepoint as a Scrum communication tool

Right now, our teams are using a combination of a bulletin board and an excel spreadsheet to keep track of tasks and to draw a burndown chart. Backlogs are keep on index cards in envelopes. This works well when the stakeholders are in the same…
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Is there a way to show commits on subtasks of stories in a Jira scrum board?

We are migrating from an in-house tool to Jira for managing our scrum board, and we have concerns that I have been unable to resolve by searching the Internet. But you folks are smart, right? ;-) Our current scrum board shows the usual swim lanes…
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How to move a team from waterfall development model to scrum model?

How to move a team from waterfall development model to scrum model? What all are the steps that one need to follow to achieve a smooth transition. What would be the acceptance curve and will it be successful altogether?
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