Questions tagged [agile]
Use this tag for any questions that involve agile approaches from the perspective of a project manager, Scrum Master, agile coach, or similar role. Please note that "Agile" is not a framework or methodology, and this tag should NOT be used for questions about agile frameworks when a more suitable tag exists.
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Daily questions about time
In the daily scrum ceremony developers are daily required to answer questions about the time they need to finish each task. F.e. Developer A said that they will do 4 tasks, and the estimation for each ...
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What is above Epic?
We are using Jira for our projects.
Standard hierarchy is Epic -> Story/Task -> SubTask.
We would like to have deeper hierarchy.
Atlassian is suggesting (link) Theme -> Initiative -> Epic ...
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Who ensures that the backend API is compatible with the user interface?
In SDLC, who is responsible for ensuring that the backend API is compatible with the UI/UX?
Tester, front-end developer, software analyst, or some other role? I think that it's the responsibility of ...
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Handling Dynamic Sub-task Estimation in Jira without Double-Counting Story Points
My team and I have recently adopted Scrum, and we've chosen Jira as our primary tool for managing sprints and backlogs. As we navigate our sprint planning, we're grappling with an issue related to the ...
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Does running an agile squad mean that all squad members can do any work, or work should be divided based on skill set?
Consider a new PO running a brand new Agile squad where squad members have different skill sets:
one developer (who works with the code)
one tester / QA person
one application architecture
one ...
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How to prioritize backlog in YouTrack?
In Youtrack, how would I keep track of issues that are suitable for inclusion in the next sprint? The backlog is of course larger than just the next sprint.
Generally when going over the issue list we ...
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Scope creep and creepy stories?
In Agile, Scrum, in which situations is used the word "creep" ? Can I tag or define my stories added in an active sprint as creep?
In my current company, we work using Agile and Scrum ...
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Can an operations manager join a team's daily meetings to observe as a "fly on the wall"?
A new operations admin joined the organization and presented himself in the leads channel. He expressed his interest in learning about the teams and their processes, and requested to be included in ...
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DEV & QA Story Point Total
If dev thinks a story is 3 and QA says, it's a 5. You don't add them together to get 8, correct? I've always had the impression that whatever the consensus is, that's what the point value will be. ...
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In Scrum, should we prepare the Product Backlog at the beginning of each Sprint or only at the beginning of the project?
I know that the Sprint Backlog is a subset of the Product Backlog which contains the tasks to be completed in the current Sprint. Does this mean that the Product Backlog should be fully ready and ...
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Agile Retrospective: Comments Anonymous?
In Agile Scrum Retrospective boards, what is the best practice?
Should Teammembers put their Name by each comment? I heard it was supposed to be more Anonymous based when documenting, at least for my ...
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Kanban process flow with loop step
I'm trying to apply kanban to a team that has a specific process workflow designed by the client to deliver items.
I'm facing some struggle on a specific step that requires an item to be modified by a ...
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Change from waterfall to agile [closed]
I have been working on different kind of software projects implementation using the water fall methodology. now some of my clients want to shift to agile methodology. what do I need to take into ...
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Agile Principles: What does "sustainable development" mean?
I am new to Project Management. I was reading the Agile Manifesto Principles and would like to understand what "sustainable development" means in the following principle:
Agile processes ...
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Should iteration (sprint) dates in Azure DevOps include non-development phases of Agile sprints?
When creating iterations in Azure DevOps (Azure Boards), should non-development phases be included in the dates for each sprint iteration?
My understanding is this: schedule sprint dates in Azure ...
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How to improve Scrum Master performance
Update: I think we can assume that my manager does not see me as a pure scrum master but more like a leader of the team.
I am a Scrum Master and my manager has told me basically that I am not ...
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How to include research tasks (e.g. user interviews, a contextual inquiry, etc.) or experiments (e.g. A/B test) to a sprint backlog? [duplicate]
Context:
Research needs to be done before development so we can make sure we are later developing the “right” thing.
Research takes a lot of time and it is almost impossible to have our findings in ...
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Agile Kanban sprints
I wanted to know if Kanban follows sprints?
Are there live open Kanban dashboards that I can use to learn from?
Thanks!
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One story estimated as 8 SP and multiple developers work on it at the same time [closed]
Let´s suppose there is a story of 8 story points, and several developers are working on it simultaneously. Any take on these types of cases? Should be fine? Could this be considered for completion in ...
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Small team with diverse tasks and little overlap - which methodology?
I have a small development team working on a variety of areas.
Currently we are working in an interesting half-baked variation of Agile SCRUM, but that doesn't seem to make much sense in some respects....
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How do you estimate for a 're-build' where you are rebuilding an existing piece of software, and can agile be used?
Having experienced multiple 're-build' projects in my career, I know that it is hard to capture all of the requirements from the working software. Often because of the size of the code base and lack ...
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The contradictions between agile approach and the growth of individual team member
Agile approach in project management has become more popular than ever, where it emphasizes T-shaped talents in the team and value cross-functionality a lot in team members. I wonder does it ...
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What is a healthy [bug cards]/[total cards] ratio for game development?
The product manager of my development team wants to use this ratio as a KPI, which allegedly will indicate things like:
the quality of our code
the amount of focus we put on development before ...
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What framework is suited for new product development which are more research and development sort of?
I am working on multiple projects. One of the projects is all about research and development. Like the developer cannot give me the timelines for when it will be finished. Also, the developer doesn't ...
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Blockers, impediments & dependencies
I am finding that blocker is an emotionally loaded word. Impediments and dependencies are not much better.
Invariably there is always a person at the end of a blocker and no-one wants to be "...
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How to deal with people who are not motivated?
I am a Scrum Master of a team in a department that has gone through a lot of changes.
My team isn't motivated to work or even engage in problem solving discussion. I have tried to do retros, feedback ...
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Blockers and Impediments
At our standup, I always ask about blockers and impediments and sometimes this results in other members of the team offering help. Sometimes it turns into a rant which isn’t terrible but does ...
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How to breakdown MVP designs into testable user stories?
I am unfamiliar with the ideas behind creating user stories for Agile projects, as well as acceptance criteria.
I was wondering how I could turn any MVP design, like the Basket MVP, into tested user ...
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Is given-when-then a standard for how acceptance criteria should be worded?
I am having trouble understanding whether it is considered a best practice to write acceptance criteria in the Cucumber-style given/when/then format, or if there are some scenarios in which this is ...
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Kanban estimates in JIRA to calculate throughput
I am using kanban methodology to manage the flow of a project. However, when new specifications come up, there is some variability in them, meaning that some of them can take 3-4 days while others can ...
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Why does it take time to implement Scrum properly?
Proper Scrum implementation requires three things:
an experienced Scrum Master,
a mature team, and
management who give the Scrum Team some breathing space.
In most organizations there is one or two ...
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How should we capture "non-implementation" work?
Currently we don't capture non-implementation stories and treat any research, analysis, release, and support work as team overhead. This makes it very difficult to predict team velocity.
What is the ...
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Create story map goal for each persona?
Two different personas can create an application in the product I'm working on:
Administrator from within the system.
Guardian/parent from a portal.
When creating the story map, I started thinking ...
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How can I close an Epic with open defects?
I have an Epic. Some defects are closed, but one defect is still opened and deferred until the next release. How can I close the current Epic since one ticket is still not closed?
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How pushy should a scrum master be?
My Scrum team has given me feedback that I should not be as dogmatic about Scrum and Agile as I currently am. I should “relax” and integrate more with how the company does things.
I am happy to do ...
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Bugs in Sprint, which backlog
I am trying to decide how to deal with bugs found in sprint in the context of a team and a program backlog.
I have come up with the below process for deciding what to do with a bug and would really ...
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How to sync across teams e.g. releases
I am a Scrum Master for a team which I think are quite mature in terms of Agility.
They have raised an impediment of having too many synchronisation meetings with individuals from other teams and the ...
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Is splitting user stories into versions a valid approach?
My questions is about splitting a story into versions. For example, we might have a story to allow a user to upload a file to a server. The first iteration of the story is usable by the customer but ...
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Can a Project Startup Checklist be part of a Sprint Backlog?
Can "Project Startup Checklist" be a Sprint Backlog for product planning,which is event planning for my project? I have made "Identifying Project Startup Checklist" as a Sprint ...
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When should a user story be marked as "blocked" and not "To-do"
In 1 sprint, we are having 2 user stories.
One is for design and one is for coding/development based on the design. We are having different statuses in Jira like
To-Do,
Blocked,
In Progress, etc.
Now, ...
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How should tasks be named in the Kanban approach?
I'm currently working on an "End of Studies" project with a friend. We are making this inside an IT company. We chose Kanban because, for us, it would be a great moment to try something new ...
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How do you plan for Production Support in velocity-based sprint planning
In capacity-based sprint planning, a calculation can be performed in order to build in production support hours by having one developer's capacity minimized.
How would a team plan for production ...
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Protecting the team against injection
How does the Scrum Master protect the team against the business rapidly changing priorities/contexts.
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Collaboration of product owner and team
How often do the product owner and the team leader/manager typically meet for discussing the product and the vision as well as the roadmap?
Additionally are the skills that each member of the team ...
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Can epics, features, user stories, span multiple releases or iterations? [closed]
Can epics, features, and user stories, span multiple releases or iterations?
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Is there any place where one could observe real project ceremonies such as stand ups, retros, planning?
My mentee asked if there’s a website, where you can see real project events, like daily’s , retro, planning, etc. so that juniors could seen how exactly it works.
I assume no, because of NDA. But ...
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What are valid reasons for increasing the story points for a user story during or after a Sprint?
While estimating user stories, we are assigning story points based on complexity. If we get unexpected situations like server unreachable, network down, dependent items, or delays, can we increase the ...
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I'm searching a motivational video about building an MVP in an agile approach on site at a shop [closed]
I need to raise motivation of my team and would like to show them that it's possible to build an app from scratch even if requirements are not known in the beginning. The idea is to make them open to ...
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Should PO define execution order of stories in a Sprint?
In one scrum team, the PO expects stories to be executed in a defined order in the sprint. This PO usually arranges stories in top-down order and expects stories to be executed in the same order.
I ...
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how to split a story with cascading side effects
I have a question about story writing, side effects, and splitting stories regarding this example below.
The customer requests a feature that requires a relationship change between some entities in ...
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