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.
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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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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.
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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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Our scrum product team is ready to release, but releases are delayed by the creation of training materials and business documentation
I'm working with a product team in a scrum environment developing products for internal workers, and we are experiencing some tension between our team's ability to deliver, and the business' need to ...
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What to do with a team that will never evolve into an agile one?
Does agility assume that any group of people can evolve into an agile team with the help of a Scrum Master, or is it possible that some teams will never evolve and it is therefore not possible for the ...
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How to help developer gain agile mindset
One of the developers on my Scrum team comes from a less agile team than ours.
The PO told me that this developer doesn't like to collaborate with the other developers and the PO, and also that he ...
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Can Gherkin style acceptance criteria be used as implementation detail for developers?
I'm talking about using Cucumber's Gherkin style syntax such as GIVEN ... WHEN ... THEN. I read a post and really liked the idea. However, the author doesn't expand on how he uses the "Living ...
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Is Beta period required for Saas Agile?
My apology if this questions is more opinion based but as an answer, can you back it up by provide a link to resources that backup your argument.
My team is doing Agile for a Saas software where we ...
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Writing an Inception Deck
I am reading the book "The Agile Samurai" and it talks about Inception Decks and Elevator Pitches. I am wondering how to apply it.
For example, an Inception Deck is to clarify:
why are we ...
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How to deal with ineffective Product Backlog refinement?
We are following Scrum but our Product Backlog refinement meetings are not successful at all. The Product Owner (PO) presents a story and there are so many open questions and loose ends that we never ...
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How should user stories describing changes be written?
Should a user story that describes changes in an existing feature summarize what is new and what existing functionality should remain, or should user stories define the finished product? If the answer ...
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Cross-functionality is not scalable. Is there evidence that it is optimal for scrum teams, or did CF just become popular due to low "management cost"?
Is cross-functionality a concept that bleeds in any sufficiently big software-architecture?
Due to an organizational restructuring, we have been working in a cross-functional software-development ...
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Scrum: What do Developers do after all tickets have made it to QA?
Let's say the sprint goal is to deliver V.2 of a software.
Development does their thing, moving items from In Progress to Peer Review.
Developers review their peer's work and move items to QA.
Let's ...
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What is the purpose of the daily Scrum standup meeting?
I have a daily standup meeting with about 20 people. I only work with 2 of these 20 people. When it is my turn to stand up, I say what I've done and what I will do; it takes me about a minute. For the ...
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