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43 questions linked to/from How do you schedule delivery dates in Scrum?
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Is it a good idea to show a 'story points by developer' graph at retrospectives?
I am part of an agile team in a large organisation. At our fortnightly retrospective a graph is shown of how many story points each developer has completed over the course of the fortnight.
We are not ...
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How to motivate offshore teams and trust them to deliver?
I joined a company where the development is outsourced in an offshore location. I have heard that the people offshore won’t deliver unless they are chased to do so.
In other words, when they are left ...
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Estimating when my project will be done
Suppose my project has 150 story points of work remaining to be done. Over the last 10 iterations the team has achieved the following velocities of 16, 12, 13, 5, 14, 7, 6, 12, 16, and 14. Assume two-...
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Is tracking billable time for Scrum ceremonies in JIRA an anti-pattern?
We use Story Points for estimating complexity of User Stories, but we bill hours to the client. This is the very first Scrum project within our company, and we don't have enough data to calculate a ...
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Forecasting Story Points in Agile
Are there any methods to fairly estimate story points for a project before deep diving into the planning poker part. I am asking this because sometimes at project initiation it helps to know the ...
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Estimation given in days and need to plan in Agile
The client internally feels that this is about 500 developer days worth of work and there could potentially be 4 developers (or pairs of developers) that work in parallel. We need to go back to them ...
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How do you handle change requests in Scrum?
I am working on a project. My client has asked for a requirement that slightly deviates from the initial terms and conditions agreement. I think it's a change request. In Scrum, how do I handle a ...
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How can we prevent business value from being dependent on multiple user stories in Scrum?
Our dev team keeps finding ourselves in a scenario where we have multiple stories, none of which actually provide usable value by themselves. In order to deliver any real world value, we need to ...
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Create a "plan on a page" for an Agile project?
I've been asked to create a "plan on a page" to give to Senior Management for an agile project, and I am struggling with how to reconcile two very different ways of working.
They are looking for when ...
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Using burndown chart to estimate the completion date of a Scrum project
I sometimes read about using the burndown chart to estimate the date when the Scrum project ends. It's often described like this:
estimate all features of the product and sum them up (...
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Refactoring in Agile development
In an app development project, the full scope of the project was not considered in the app design. So, the frequent refactoring of codes to accommodate changes is negatively impacting the project ...
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How do you organize/plan your discovery session so that it does not conflict with the work of the current sprint?
Let's suppose you have a team of 10 developers working on automation (RPA). They are working in 4 different, independent bots.
The PO comes with more opportunities for automation. These opportunities ...
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Agile: Can Epics be time-based rather than feature-based?
For example, if you're building a chat app, having epics be the stages in a project:
Phase 1 - Beta
Phase 2 - Launch
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Sign-Up
The goal of an epic is to capture a large body ...
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Why did our process cause us to miss our release date? [closed]
I'm a developer on a team that has just finished some web development work. It was due for a release tomorrow but, as a result of a review by management, needs reworking. This will undoubtedly add a ...
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Is it possible to give timelines in SCRUM?
Our team is currently using a very SCRUM near approach in planning and development. But I constantly face one issue with our management. The management is part of the backlog priority process and each ...
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