Questions tagged [features]
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Should the Product Owner (PO) or Software Engineer Own the Feature Item?
We are using Visual Studio Team Services (VSTS) to manage work items. VSTS uses a hierarchy of Epic -- Feature -- User Story -- Task. It is clear that the individual software engineer owns a 'user ...
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Where should I keep track of open items from previous sprints?
I have been throwing "things that team will do later" (TTWDL) into the product backlog along with product functionality to be implemented. Needless to say it is now long and full of bugs/ tasks from ...
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What are the different approaches and how frequent to prioritize the backlog? [closed]
What are different aspects of a PBIs (Product Backlog Items), or generally speaking features, would you take into consideration for prioritizing the backlog? risk, ROI, time to market, cost of delay, ...
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Organizing testing in a Scrum(ish) development project
First: I'm trying this forum, even though this is more a test management than project management question. The test/QA exchange seems to be focused on technical, hands-on test questions and issues.
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Should I have user stories dealing with the case where user is not authenticated?
In my software, a lot of services expect user to be authenticated before performing.
In positive scenarios, I have this kind of context:
Given I am authenticated
When I create meeting X
Then ...
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Could my sprint unit be a scenario instead of a feature? (Gherkin terms)
My team's Business Analyst and I have written some Gherkin files describing user stories of our new project.
As usual, a Gherkin file is composed of one feature, itself detailed through one or ...
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Should we encourage a team member adding a feature on his own?
Recently I had a colleague that implemented a feature without being in the plan or discussed in detail but on his own time during the weekend.
The feature was discussed briefly, it is a technical ...
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Does it make sense to test business functionality before doing a code review?
Currently, we have a feature branch development environment. Features are specified as stories that each developer takes on. Once a feature is done on a feature branch, a pull request for said feature ...
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Reopen an epic after a feature request?
You are developing a software based on various modules. Each module is considered an Epic in JIRA. When the module is accepted by the client, the PM closes the Epic. After some time the client demands ...
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Correct Work Item Hierarchy in Azure Dev Ops
We are currently switching from our so-and-so somewhat agile management approach to Scrum and I as a developer have a hard time understanding, what comes first in Azure DevOps as the top level item.
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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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Bug Vs Feature Development
Not sure if this has already been discussed, if yes please point me out appropriately.
I am a Product manager in at a software firm. We are developing a mobile application. We are developing 2 ...
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How should I control a programming project's progress?
We have a startup and it is our first experience. We want to create a mobile application and its website implementation.
We have 3 main parts:
Mobile application
Website application
A server that ...
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User's of VersionOne - How do you handle requests that impact a current Epic/Product?
Currently, my effort has a few Epics in flight. One of the Epic's is servicing or enhancing a product in production. We are starting to use the request feature in VersionOne to intake these ...
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How can we decide if a story is a feature or just an internal change?
We have a story where we want to have uniformity across our product suite by using a same jar file across three products. Consider it as an add-on to the original product, and as of today we have ...
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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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Blocked due to a dependency [closed]
If a feature to be developed in a sprint is blocked due to a dependency, how do you handle it as a PO?
