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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Is Kanban considered an agile methodology?
I need to choose an agile method of development for my team; we tried Scrum for the first two weeks, but since we have to make a simple universitarian project, we thought that Scrum was more ...
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Where does development process improvement fall into the product development lifecycle?
For most of my career as a software developer, I have been a part of Agile teams using Scrum, Lean Startup, or Kanban.
The Product team usually has goals for keeping the product running, improving the ...
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Is the Crystal methodology still practised anywhere?
The Crystal methodology is fairly often included in lists of Agile methodologies and it is easy to find articles from recent years giving an overview of it and comparing it to other Agile ...
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How do you name Sprints in Scrum?
I was wondering if it's a good idea to name Sprints with user-friendly names instead of using numerals like Sprint 1, Sprint 2, etc. Are there best practices or standards for naming the Sprint after ...
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How to implement Epics on Gitlab without Enterprise Edition?
We have used Gitlab for 4 years now in our organization, and are growing to the point where we are implementing Agile and trying to follow Epics, Features, User Stories, and Tasks.
We are struggling ...
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In an Azure DevOps work item Excel file, how do I assign parent without having to see closed siblings?
I'm using the "Teams" tab provided by MS in Excel to add repeating Azure DevOps User Stories (US), i.e. work that needs to be done every sprint (don't ask). This seems to be the recommended approach ...
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Why does Pivotal Tracker discourage estimating points for bugs and chores?
Pivotal Tracker "strongly discourages" estimating velocity points for bugs and chores – you have to change a setting and accept a warning to be able to do it.
They explain why here, but I just don't ...
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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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Should bugs be treated as stories or as tasks?
If you're using scrum you should know that there is a clear difference between tasks and stories. A story is something that is valuable to user. A task is a step to produce that value to user.
So, ...
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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1 team practicing kanban with multiple projects
I was wondering when a small development team would use kanban when they have multiple simultaneous IT projects.
Is there a reason why someone would rather go with kanban instead of Scrum when ...
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Should user stories be delivered orally?
I have studied software engineering and learned a decent amount about requirements engineering. I also took a course in Scrum.
I've now worked at several different companies, and so far, I haven't ...
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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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How to deal with Ready To Deploy in Sprint Backlog
I have a difficult question about how to deal with the ready to deploy user stories in the product backlog, as well as in the sprint backlog.
My current Kanban board is below:
To Do
In Progress
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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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Can one person be both Scrum Master and Architect at the same time?
Is it OK if the Scrum Master and Architect is one person? I clearly understand why it's bad idea to combine Scrum Master and Product Owner roles: conflicts of interest, SM cares about development, PO ...
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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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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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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 calculate Schedule Variance in Scrum with story points?
I am trying to find a way to calculate the schedule variance for the scrum. I was trying to found a similar question here on StackExchange, but Yet I didn't found any. So I have posted it here.
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Scrum backlog and sprint planning
So from what I've understand by reading the tutorials on the Atlasian website, the backlog is populated by the project manager and can contain entries as abstract as he wants, with various degrees of ...
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Scrum , Velocity calculation and Sprint Calculation
Following figures showing the performance of a Scrum team during the first 6 sprints of a project.
Sprint: 15 SP
Sprint: 5 SP
Sprint: 20 SP
Sprint: 15 SP
Sprint: 25 SP
Sprint. 10 SP
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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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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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Where do you record time in JIRA that is not part of a sprint?
I will be planning my first project using Scrum.
I am still trying to get my head around JIRA and how I will use it.
I want to know that once we have identified a sprint (all tasks have been ...
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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?
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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]
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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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When were Scrum "ceremonies" renamed "events"?
I took a Certified Scrum Master (CSM) course and certification in 2007. Back then, the Sprint Planning, Sprint Review, Sprint Retrospective and Daily Scrum were called Scrum ceremonies.
Reading the ...
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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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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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Where should design be incorporated in an agile process?
We use a scrum-based agile development process. But where should design get incorporated? Separate user stories? Tasks on stories?
We currently think of design as a separate task and break it out as ...
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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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Agile team missing commitments regularly and complaining about no trust
I am on the product side and have an agile team that has missed every sprint commitment through the first 4 by between 40 and 60% measured by points. The team continues to say, that it is OK and that ...
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Is Software Architecture still Relevant in Agile ?
Agile focuses on developing workable codes from small user stories. Pair programming encourage developers to pair up, actively engage with one another to come up with the best solution for the problem....
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How should be the pricing using agile?
How should be the pricing using agile?
Is it fixed per sprint?
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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 should a Scrum master handle disagreements about story-point estimates in Scrum?
For example : Some see its userstory (e.g. 2 points) and others see technical complications and judge that the story should be 20 points. The 2-point voters say, "I understand your opinion, but don't ...
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In Scrum, who is responsible for the project's budget?
I have read many books about Scrum, blogs and academic articles. Though, all of them dodge from explicitly acknowledging this question:
Who is responsible for the project's money? Why is this person ...
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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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