Questions tagged [scrum]
For questions about using or implementing the Scrum framework.
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Why are developers expected to estimate tasks at all?
This management tendency is the worst part of being a developer. Software development is not carpentry. Almost everything a developer writes is unique, they have never built that particular thing ...
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In a Kanban or Scrum workflow should tasks/stories move back?
What is the best practice in terms of moving stories/tasks through the workflow. Should stories be allowed to move back in the workflow e.g. In Deployment to In Development; In Development to To Do.
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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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Iterative tasks in Machine Learning
We are a small team working on a Machine Learning software. Users can upload images which are analysed, and then download a report about items the AI software found in the image. There are currently ...
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Is the length of a sprint fixed or can it be changeable whenever the team want to?
I recently started learning scrum, I've learned that a sprint has a limited period that can be between 1 to 6 weeks and during which the team build an increment, My question is: If for example, a team ...
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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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How to handle split team Sprint needs?
I'm Project Manager at my company, and we are trying to use the Agile Scrum methodology to release a software product.
We have a specific milestone (let's call it the creation of a "prototype&...
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Who is responsible for ensuring that the Product Owners are professional and understand how to do their job well?
I've seen many bad patterns appearing over the years, one is converting Project Managers into Product Owners.
In my current org Scrum Masters are not involved in the recruiting of Product Owners, ...
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Azure Board (DevOps) Reports
I am looking for out of the box "Scrum" reports (velocity, burn-down, sprint report) that use story points, in the tool Azure Boards/DevOps (formerly known as VSTS).
I played with "Analytics Views" ...
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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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PI Planning and user stories without features
In our project we have features containing stories and some standalone stories which have no binding to features at all. For example it can be story for adding one new column in report.
For feature we ...
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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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Planning a release around the Apple's AppStore in mind
I am currently working for a company that has adopted scrum and we are trying to figure a rule for how to account for tech support, bug fixing and the unknowns of the Apple appstore within our sprints....
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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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Story Points given by task owner leads to disagreement
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There's one big project that requires involvement from different members - infrastructure, backend, frontend, security, etc.
The members are working a flavour of Scrum using ...
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how to do spike/research story which can run more than 1 sprint
I past I have done a research/spike story which was a new area for me. Building big excel, debug ntml2 jar for authentication issue. our sprint was 2 weeks and it runs for more than 1 sprint, what ...
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Team consistently not making sprints
So I know that this question has been asked before, but since I haven't really seen anything that benefited my problem, I thought I would give it a chance.
So first things first, in a perfect world ...
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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
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Sprint: 20 SP
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Sprint: 25 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 write DOD (definition of done) or definition of ready for ML tasks?
As a non technical product owner I realized so far that the nature of ML tasks is a bit different than front or backend tasks. I've been struggling to write a definition of done for ML tasks. so far ...
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In scrum should incomplete stories be re-estimated or does the original estimate get burned down when it's finally completed?
If I have a story that's been estimated at 10 story points and we don't manage to complete it in a sprint how do you handle estimates for the sprint in which it's next included (assuming it gets ...
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How to empower the team to extract technical requirements before starting development?
As a nontechnical product owner how can I help my ML team to see steps ahead for their technical tasks? the problem I'm facing is that the needed requirements of these technical tasks gets clear in ...
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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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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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Challenges of a small company working with an external dev team from another country
I am a PO at a small company in the UK who are in the early days of SaaS development (using Agile Scrum). It was recommended that we use the external dev team which we have now instructed. This team ...
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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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Challenges of switching an established external dev team [closed]
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This is related to a question I asked regarding the challenges of a small company working with an external dev team which had some great feedback. For context, I am a PO of a small company in ...
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How to manage an army of not-really-devs trying to write code for the sake of project management?
We recently adopted a new management methodology that says there are no roles on the team (a "cross-functional" team where "all team members are developers") and everyone should be ...
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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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How are department wide technical decisions made and enforced within and across SAFe Scrum Teams?
My Scrum Team works within the SAFe framework. I raised an issue with technical leadership for decision making when I realized I [in my role as a Scrum Developer] had no answers or ideas.
Our unit [...
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Any ideas about how to evaluate a developer's performance?
I introduced Scrum in our development teams some years ago. Since then our performance has increased a lot with a shorter time-to-market and increased quality. The CEO wants me to create a system to ...
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What is a Scrum master to do when management do not support Agile and Scrum?
Scrum has come out of R&D. The organisation has scaled significantly. The organisation recruited more developers, Scrum masters and product owners (POs) and more managers.
All of the managers talk ...
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Should we take into account scope changes to the Sprint to measure the team efficiency?
My question is about scope changes to the sprint after stating it. The Scrum guide says this about adaptation:
A Scrum Team is expected to adapt the moment it learns anything new through inspection
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How can I effectively manage a ticket which needs developers from multiple teams?
I'm a new project coordinator.
My company is developing a telemedicine - AI mobile software. We have the AI team, the Back-end team (as BE) and the front-end team (we call them Mobile). So each time ...
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How many Nexus Integration Teams?
With 19 scrum teams. The PO selects 6 goals for the sprint. Cross Team Refinement shows multiple dependencies across all 6 goals. The scrum teams plan and it's achievable. Multiple Dependency Charts ...
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Who is responsible for getting 2 senior developers from different teams to agree on design?
Recently a heated discussion happened between 2 senior developers. The 2 could not agree on a design. This resulted in work not beginning.
I as a Scrum Master was not involved and it was not one of my ...
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Who should ensure that the project with one product uses 1 PO and 1 Product Backlog?
Management are involved. They want to split the product into multiple streams but it's still one product.
Management have introduced multiple Product Owners and given then a stream each.
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What should the Scrum Master do when the Product Owner tries to add more items to the Sprint?
Sprint planning has completed, sprint goals set, all is well. 2 days in the PO asks the lead developer if they could add a new item into the sprint, "it's an easy fix" "another team ...
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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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Ticket must be worked immediately, and definitely won't make it to Done by end of sprint
It's the second to last day of sprint. Something comes in from the field that is critical. It will take approximately 2 days to complete. It will not be complete by end of sprint. Other items that are ...
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How to move tickets to next sprint in Jira to have correct time counting?
Suppose we have a ticket with estimation of 4 units and this ticket was half done in one sprint and half done in next one.
Should we do re-estimation and when?
Don't re-estimate.
Change estimation ...
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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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Who decides if something should NOT be injected into a sprint?
On some teams, I've seen it be a combination of OPS and Product Management stating that either new/missed requirements came in, or bugs are severe enough to warrant injection. The Scrum team then does ...
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Kanban flow of front-end / back-end user story
My team is currently splitting up our work in front-end and back-end related tickets, which I found out to be against agile. So, I am currently thinking about the flow of our Kanban board when working ...
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How to make my team follow the Scrum methodology?
I recently joined a new company as a scrum master. I have six years of experience as a web developer and the last two years as a lead developer.
I did have some experience and I am quite good as a ...
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According to scrum, how do you handle troubleshooting problems in an application as a developer?
Maybe if I give a couple of examples it will explain my question better. I am a Lead Developer and I've noticed that frequently it's difficult to estimate the amount of time troubleshooting and ...
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