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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How to identify if some functions have dependencies from tech/developing side in agile development as a business analyst?
Business context: as a business analyst, I need to cooperate with the developers in our team to create a feature in an e-commerce product. This feature is “customers can pay online for the items they ...
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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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Where does Scrum or Agile Manifesto say that we should avoid stages (development, then testing)?
It looks like neither Scrum nor the Agile Manifesto say that the practice when developers write code and then hand it over to testers should be avoided. Or do they?
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No retrospectives in software company - Is this a bad sign?
I know of one software company that does not have sprint retrospectives or retros of any kind. They had it in the past but cancelled them. Is there ever a good reason for not having retrospectives or ...
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How to even out workload between developers and QA?
I've noticed on my team the developers are very busy toward the beginning of the sprint with the QA people having little to do, while the opposite is true toward the end of the sprint.
This seems ...
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ScrumBut: "Developers don't do QA well."
Since arriving at my company, I've come to find that they specifically hire QA Analysts for QA work within sprints across multiple products. I'm aware that this goes against the Scrum Guide which ...
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Should feature teams be specialized by business stream?
For context, The company provides a subscription for goods to both B2C and B2B markets. The B2B's distinctive aspects is that client require billing to be a lot more detailed, they oversee a lot more ...
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Release Manager vs Delivery Manager. What's different about the roles?
So I have this confusion about the roles of Release Manager and Delivery Manager. I thought they were the same thing but apparently I'm incorrect in believing that.
From what I could piece together, ...
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How to ensure adherence to coding standards
We have a coding standards document that contains standards for SQL.
In the last sprint, there were some standards that were missed by the Developer, and also missed by the Reviewer.
We just had a ...
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How to split responsibility of a product page?
In our organisation, the responsibility is divided based on modules. Let's take an example of an auto portal product page where the product page consists of many different modules owned by different ...
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Is this a trick assignment with Release Planning ? Any comments is much appreciated [closed]
I am fairly new to PM world. I have been given an assignment/quiz but I am struggling with this because, it doesn't seem like an agile project rather Waterfall project with Agile terms thrown in and ...
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Best practice: best place to track ad-hoc, ongoing work
I've recently taken over a project from another scrum master.
In the backlog there is a 'Feature' called 'Support HW Team' (HW -> Hardware) that has a bunch of vague stories under it and basically ...
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I was asked to accelerate my team's production: Agile, A/B Testing, Workflow & Process
I have a sticky situation at work I would like to get your advice on.
I'm currently a web development manager overseeing a newly completed team which consists of a developer, a digital designer, and a ...
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Senior developers 'reject' agile. What now?
I'm about to have my first day as Product Owner at a new job as one of three product owners, and during the interview one of the current challenges that was brought up was the renewal of the processes....
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Using Retrospectives to Influence Process
I've been encouraging my current team to adopt process and workflow changes to be more agile. We have our first retrospective coming up and I'm looking for some advice on how to conduct the ...
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Lately discovered requirements in Scrum
If a requirement is discovered in the middle of a project or even later, then the cost of implementation of this requirement can be very high.
The Scrum suggets that we should only refine the top PBIs ...
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Should we re-estime (reduce) story points of a task that we started but didn't finish last sprint? [duplicate]
I need an advice and it's about the best option to choose in an agile project, here is the situation :
A sprint backlog contains between 15 and 20 user stories
A the last day of the sprint, we ...
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Agile: Work on PBI Stories By Backlog Priority
We are working on an Agile Scrum team.
They mention it is good practice to work on PBI tasks first by Sprint Backlog Priority in code development.
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When some of the first Priority stories ...
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Which is better: large feature branches or merging frequently? Which is better small work items vs large work items?
My team has problems pushing work items through all the stages in the Kanban board to done.
The work items hit code review and pile up and stay there for a long time. The following stage (the QA stage)...
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Is Task always decomposed from User Story?
I've heard many times that tasks are basically subsets of user stories and they are derived from User Stories, so on the scale of amount of work that is needed to finish them, a Task is always smaller ...
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Is TDD/unit testing compatible with Lean Startup methodologies?
We're a small team mostly building MVPs following the Lean Startup Methodologygies and lean development.
Up until now, we've been shipping code without unit tests, in order to get our products or ...
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How to implement unit testing with a small Scrum team without spending half the Sprint unit-testing stories?
We are a very small team (1 front-end developer, 1 back-end developer/solution architect, 1 PM/UX) working in Scrum with 2 weeks Sprints.
Up until now, we were mostly working on prototype projects not ...
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Agile project structure
If a project tree has branches such as Development, Business Analyses and Architecture pages, where should Functional specifications and Technical Specifications go? (i.e. Technical under Development, ...
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Agile in a reactive organisation?
I am working in an organization as a Scrum Master that is extremely reactive by nature, where the ‘agile’ teams are being given extremely aggressive ‘non-negotiable’ deadlines by senior executives, ...
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Group not finding value in using a visualization board
I am assisting a group of people (not exactly a team, since they're not working together towards a common goal, they're rather trying to manage projects around them), to use a visualization board to ...
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How to incorporate UX/UI in sprint correctly when mockups are required to estimate a story?
Apologies if the question has already been asked, I couldn't really find the answer when looking around.
I'm struggling to figure out a way to handle UX/UI in an agile way. I'd like to be "fully&...
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How do you write user stories for devops/dev tasks like setting up AB testing in the middle of a project
We're in the middle of a project and have decided to implement a proper agile methodology, especially around writing "correct" user stories and trying to avoid the "as a developer" ...
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How to measure Kanbans effectiveness over Scrum?
I am running an experiment with my team to see if they are more efficient overall using Kanban or Scrum.
We don’t have a specific reason other than we are striving for better.
If we don’t see any ...
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Poor man's manner of conducting Agile Scrum/kanban/lean/XP software development philosophies/practices while remotely working online over the internet [closed]
Due to the covid-19 pandemic, I and my colleagues work remotely from home. I'm trying to document user stories. Unfortunately, since we work remotely from home, I cannot sit next to my colleagues with ...
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On Tuckman model, do teams using agile frameworks mature faster in comparison to teams using waterfalls?
I was looking at Tuckman model (Forming, Storming, Norming, Performing=Maturity) which shows the evolution of maturity of a new team with time (the life of project) and I concluded that in both ...
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Designing for the future in an agile environment
I started my working life as a database designer, before moving at a later date into project management. Most of my working life has been spent in "waterfall" environments for a variety of ...
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How do you plan big features/releases in Scrum?
Let's suppose the business comes and asks you when will your team be able to deliver a big feature or release. In Scrum, how do you make long-term (half a year or a year) planning?
If the feature (or ...
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Who is the responsible for removing the Developer from the Scrum Team?
I am trying to learn Scrum and I have this question:
A new Developer is having continuing conflicts with existing members of the Scrum Team, which is impacting the delivery of Increment. If necessary, ...
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Is there such a thing as too much instant message communication for a remote team
The team wants each developer to let the other developers know what progress they are making on their stories . Ex "Ready for peer Review", "Peer Reviewed","QA passed", &...
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In Scrum what are the benefits of self-managing?
I am trying to learn Scrum, and these are some question I have:
What are the benefits of self-managing?
Increased accountability, Increased creativity... and what else?
Thank you for your answers.
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Workflow from development to testing and merge
I am trying to formalize the development workflow and here's the first draft. Welcome suggestions on the process and any tweaks for optimization. I am pretty new when it comes to setting up the ...
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Does Agile equal Adaptive Project Management?
Deepening a bit on Project Management approaches, I came across with two main perspectives: Predictive and Adaptive. Predictive is describe more like traditional Project Management, whereas Adaptive ...
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Must business people and developers always work together daily?
Business people and developers must work
together daily throughout the project.
from Principles behind the Agile Manifesto
Does this not violate Joel 8? Compulsory daily meetings with non-technical ...
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Do long meetings imply lack of 'true agile'?
Dysfunctional agile teams have often been blamed that their lack of productivity is because "they are not doing true agile".
Most places me and my peers have worked, feature 'agile' but also ...
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Certifications to go from tech-heavy to business-oriented projects?
I am currently doing some planning/research regarding certifications for this year. I have a combination of technical background (Ph.D. in Physics) and an executive MBA (specialization in managing and ...
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Sprint Planning for Agencies
I'm looking for some help finding resources on sprint planning specifically for agencies, namely a web design and development firm focusing primarily on web apps. So a typical project would be a ...
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User stories when starting from scratch
A user story is defined in quite a few ways, but roughly always like this:
User Story is a small (actually, the smallest) piece of work that
represents some value to an end user and can be delivered ...
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Is onboarding a non-functional requirement?
I work on a team that manages DevOps tools for a software company. When an engineer from one of our product teams wants to use one of our tools, they clone a series of Jira tickets and work through ...
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If a team works on different things, how can they run sprint planning effectively?
I'm a Scrum Master for a team who are working on different features for different products, but all for the same company. As we're a small team, we've kept it to 1 team and have been sprint planning ...
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Using project management tools like MS Project or Primavera in an agile team
Do project management tools like MS Project and Primavera make sense in a software team and for a software product, assuming that the team is following agile practices and uses, e.g., Scrum. Are ...
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ex-Development manager as a Product Owner
In a new team, an ex-development manager, who's been in that position for many years, opted in as the team's Product Owner. The team has decided to do Scrum.
The PO's Agile mentality is certainly ...
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Too much to test on the last day of the sprint [duplicate]
How can I avoid the issue where a lot of stories are moved to Under Testing on the last day of the sprint?
The Under Testing column is manageable on most days but on the last day and there day before ...
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Can a story be re-open within sprint in Agile?
Here is the scenario. Story was completed as written and scheduled for the next release. We found out a day later that there were other systems that needed to do changes as well and would not be ...
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How to build a feature backlog bottom up
Does anyone have any experience with bottom up product management? Essentially getting their teams to decide on the features and the direction of product?
In most of my previous teams - product ...
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Can each Product have its own P&L?
It's often said that a Product Owner is a mini-CEO.
Let's say we are talking about a company that is developing a large, complex product. In this case there're usually more that one Product Owner, ...
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