The **Scrum** tag is used for questions about using or implementing the Scrum project management methodology.
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Changing backlog story point estimates mid way through a release
Background: We are mid-way through a development which was estimated for a customer on a fixed price contract. To come up with the estimate we built a backlog by trying to list all user stories and ...
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SCRUM Sprint and tasks/user stories that cannot fit into a sprint!
Say I have an Epic that is estimated to take 3 sprints to do.
And the Epic is broken down into
A to Z tasks/user stories.
Problem is, to do B, we need A, to do C we need B, etc....
And in sprint ...
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How should we implement items from Sprint Retrospectives?
Every two weeks we have our Scrum retrospective meeting and everything seems to be great, because we are getting lots of ideas. However, the problem is that these ideas are almost never actually ...
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Hiring new team with limited resources using Scrum
My team consists of 4 people
Myself (Division Director, Senior Developer and Project Manager (adhoc PM))
Emp1 (Data Administrator/Data Entry for entire agency)
Emp2 (Junior Developer - Have not ...
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How to keep all the developers on the same page in Scrum?
We are a small team of 6 developers. We usually complete 4 to 5 user stories in a given sprint. Typically every person takes a complete user story and some take a couple of them.
The problem arises ...
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How frequently can a release happen within a Scrum Sprint?
I am aware that the length of a Scrum Sprint can vary on a case to case basis. This raises the following questions:
How can product releases be handled within the Sprint time-box?
How frequently can ...
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How to better balance resources in a cross-functional agile team?
I am the project manager for a team composed of employees who were hired specifically as QA or development prior to agile/scrum being adopted by the organization. Just for background, I came into the ...
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Is “what browser do we have to support” in SCRUM an impediment or a user story?
The PO defined a user story, roughly saying: "As an employee want to use functionality X in our web interface". The functionality is well defined and for internal use in a large company, but during ...
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What is a Hybrid Agile Approach? How Are Senior Business Roles Affected?
Hi guys I was wondering if I got it right that a hybrid approach is a mix two different agile approaches if so what happens to senior project business level roles in hybrid approach eg: scrum and dsdm
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Scrum and DSDM Atern integration [closed]
Are there any resources on the internet from which I can get information regarding steps or the process required to integrate Scrum and DSDM?
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Is Agile feasible for a large financial application?
I am considering using Scrum on a very large (40+ developers) multi year project for a major bank.
I am trying to figure out if Agile is feasible for a project this size. There are thousands of ...
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Agile/scrum - tracking time spent in current iteration towards stories from the next iteration if all current stories are done
Our team has been slowly trying to go towards agile, and like many other teams, up to this point, the question of "what do we do when we actually finish all commitments?" is fairly new and foreign to ...
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Scrum Training Sheet for new teams
Question: What quick reference, training, items about Scrum need to be on a training sheet for quick reference to keep everyone in the know about what Scrum is, its processes and common terminology?
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Is Scrum a status report meeting or a developer meeting?
I'm a developer and we started using Agile last year (October 2011). And, it has been rough to say the least. I was always taught Scrum was to discuss the following:
What you did yesterday
What ...
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Agile methodology - How to have an effective sprint retrospective? [closed]
I am the scrum master in my scrum team. At the end of a sprint, we have a sprint retrospective, and we comment on what good things we noticed in the sprint. We also comment on the bad things and what ...
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Handling new suggestions to resolved user stories in closed sprint
In a project managed using scrum framework, I've a situation where all tasks associated to a user story (feature) had been done successfully. No more code changes are allowed since testing is in ...
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What is a “battery”?
I was very surprised to read, in this question, the mention of “batteries” as a PM tool, seemingly linked to Scrum. The OP talks about an article about their use, but none of my desperate Googling ...
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How does one build a burnup chart?
Can someone explain how to build a burn-up chart? Please give me a walkthrough of how to build one?
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How to plan work under live issue without the battery
We are working under quite old project with quite much legacy code. This means that we have around 3-5 live issues every sprint.
We were handling that by batteries inside sprint. But I recently read ...
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Allocation of resources during morning scrum?
I find that process to be a bit confusing, but from the time I've been here, I get the impression that resource allocation happens during the morning scrum meetings. So for example, if Dev A has 8 ...
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What are the key roles in a Scrum team?
Based on my understanding, Product owner, Scrum Master and Development team are the major roles in a Scrum team. I have to setup a .Net Scrum team with 5-8 members. I don't have enough knowledge about ...
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What tools and techniques should be introduced first when starting with Agile/Scrum?
I am working as project manager on a large project with a five person development team. They have been without project management support for several months and there is no project management ...
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Is the daily scrum 15mins meeting mandatory for successful scrum project?
Is the daily scrum 15-minute meeting mandatory for a successful scrum project? Is it possible to replace it with a one hour meeting once or twice a week?
I am asking this because I am finding it ...
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What are the benefits of having fixed length sprints for agile?
Lately, I have been the solo developer on a software development project and I break down my project into functionality that I believe I should be able to implement in 1 or 2 weeks depending on the ...
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Dealing with large specifications with Scrum
From time to time, our product need to cope with new network protocols that comes in large specification files (~100+ pages). Usually, gathering the requirements from the specification can't be done ...
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How to facilitate communication and peer reviews on a distributed scrum team?
We have a Scrum team of 3 developers, a scrum master, and a product owner. Everyone works out of their home (except the product owner who works at his organization's headquarters).
In the past, we ...
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Should I provide my boss and team with documentation about the Scrum process?
I have been chosen to be responsible for rolling out Scrum in my small 5 man software development team. I am also a developer at the same time.
I have experience being in a non-agile team and having ...
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Agile/Scrum- Tracking external dependency stories
Say you have three projects. Two of these projects are end-user facing products (Project A and B). The third is an infrastructure project (Project I) where all the work will never be directly ...
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What artifacts does Scrum require for application design and systems documentation?
I have been a developer for awhile. Recently, I got promoted within my team. Now I am responsible for application design and documentation, and am thinking of following the Scrum methodology.
We are ...
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How to make Scrum of Scrums meetings more productive?
At my job, we're having a Scrum of Scrums meeting where all the Scrum Masters get together. This meeting is turning into a boring meeting where everyone gives their status update. I'm trying to make ...
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What SMART goals can I set for myself as a new Scrum Master?
I'm transitioning from a Project Manager to a Scrum Master, and I need to come up with some examples of SMART goals for the new role. The goals are for my Annual Performance Reviews where I will be ...
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How to cope with the Hawthorne effect and sprint improvements?
Hawthorne effect: the phenomenon in which subjects in behavioral studies change their performance in response to being observed.
Background: I'm using Kanban as a tool to analyse and improve the ...
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Agile Games for working in vertical slices
Is there a game for highlighting the wonders of working in vertical slices rather than horizontally?
We are exploring techniques to represent the sum of the work that has to be done in a particular ...
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Gathering feedback on performance as a Scrum Master
As a ScrumMaster, what techniques would you recommend to gather feedback from the Team Members?
What criteria should the Team Members, the Product Owner and, other stakeholders take into account in ...
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Scrum with highly specialized developers
Where I'm currently working, I'm the only BizTalk/Integration developer. Other developers are specialized in hand-held devices, others in Silverlight, and other in electronic devices. I don't know ...
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What is an impediment, and how to handle them and internal improvments in Scrum?
What exactly is an impediment? I know that Scrum say that and impediment is something that stop the team from performing the best it can. So basically it can be everything? But where goes the magical ...
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How to implement scrum on an Waterfall enterprise?
Research prior to asking this questions -> When to Use Waterfall, When to Use Scrum ?
I am not focus on pure waterfall vs pure scrum conversion. I am more incline of solving the following problems ...
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What tools do you use for distributed scrum backlog/board [closed]
Which tools do you guys use for your distributed scrum teams?
I have had a look at Jira, Teamspace, Scrumworks and wanted to know if there any others used in the community. If possible please state ...
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Scrum interactions for distributed teams
Scrum by the book says "Interactions over processes and tools" which kind of implies that tools should be avoided. This is plain easy when the team is co-located but how does it go when a team is ...
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What features every Agile software tool should have? [closed]
I have been task to recommend an Agile tool for my team. I am still a month away from my recommendation due date, but I wanted to get started on my due diligence. Our organization have some ...
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Could you please help me in providing the phases that i should follow to apply Agile / Scrum this web development project?
I'm doing my final year project, and I'm going to develop a website. I'm interested in using an Agile methodology such as Scrum. Could you please help me in providing the possible steps which I can ...
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Scrum approach to Graphic Design office
I've been recently asked to teach Scrum to a graphic design office. Why? Because they want to turn their services into quick deliverable products, and not lose focus on the current project they're ...
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Should Product Owner be present on all retrospectives?
As a scrum master I will join new development team.
Some additional information about environment:
The team works iteratively, but they don't do any retrospectives,
Previous scrum master (I'd ...
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As a Scrum Master, what sort of administrative tasks should I do and what should the team do?
I have a 'do it myself or leave it for the team' dillema for some sort of tasks.
Let me introduce an example, to be clear what I mean: there is a team, which uses jira* as a task container. Every ...
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How to encourage people to use a physical board?
Recently, we introduced a physical board to visualise work progress in one of our projects. In the first few iteration the team was very excited about it and used the board very often. We saw true ...
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what to do when one team member doesn't value collaboration?
I've just finished running a retrospective of a team I doesn't manage usually (they don't have a dedicated ScrumMaster), and it appears that there is a conflict of opinions in the team (which is ...
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What should we do with a task that has been blocked
We're using Agile and Scrum methodology.
For this iteration a coworker had to finish her Development task, which was carried over from last iteration. We thought it will be done in two days and we ...
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Tracking points spent on bugs during sprint
The product owner wants to keep track on how much points are spent on bugs during a sprint. This can raise some issues, such as:
Scoring a task that is already done. Surprisingly even with it done, ...
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How to make daily Scrum more accessible to participants?
We are in our 10th Sprint right now, and I can see a pattern during dailies.
When a person is doing his or her speech which involve no one else and when his work is a little bit difficult to grasp ...
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Is Iteration Strength a valuable parameter for you?
We all know how to use Iteration Velocity parameter. However, there are situations during an iteration that one takes an unexpected day off, or there is a bank holiday, or there is another reason for ...
