Questions tagged [scrum]
For questions about using or implementing the Scrum framework.
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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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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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Understanding Azure devops burndown
I do not understand why the burndown is looking like it is. Remaining work is higher than capacity - but in the details remaining work is lower than remaining capacity.
Can anyone help?
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Sprint burndown chart question
I have a question about the burn-down chart. We have a project consisting of 4 sprints, with each sprint lasting 2 weeks (excluding weekends), a total of 10 days. Before starting Sprint 1, the overall ...
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How should we manage/point ad-hoc support queries that come in after the sprint has started?
I've come across a slight dilemma which, as far as I could see, has not been answered in Scrum blog posts on the interwebs, nor in this StackExchange.
We started our sprint and a day later one of our ...
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Pay raise linked to velocity?
Is it a good idea to link a team's sprint velocity to bonuses or salary increases?
For example, if one increases the average sprint velocity by 10 percent at the end of a year?
Or are there other ...
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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.
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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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Sprint Review Event
When Sprint Review event should begin? Is it required to have it at the end of Sprint or it can be done at first day of sprint?
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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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What to do with work not on the board?
TL;DR: At some point, someone on the team will have work which can justifiably not go on the board. How is this handled in a sprint team when it is a long running thing?
Our team's technical leader ...
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Both of my developers are stuck on one task, now what?
The whole development are stuck on one task in a sprint, they would rather work on other tasks then try and solve it. This is the only task remaining in the sprint, all other tasks have finished. The ...
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How to use velocity when PBIs are so large
So, I'm very junior and am wanting to learn PM stuff, and I'm encountering a strange issue in my team.
We want to use velocity as a way to see whether we're improving or not. However, my understanding ...
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Is the Product Owner part of the Scrum Team in SAFe?
I've understood the Scrum Team to be one cohesive team consisting of three responsibility domains:
Development team
Product Owner
Scrum Master
Collectively, we all seek to refine/define and ...
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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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What is the best methodology for a multiproject and multiteam environment? [closed]
I'm working in an enterprise that realizes several dozens of projects based on its own system. The problem is that there are:
several projects
several teams
several modules that are associated with ...
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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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Who decides if something should NOT be injected into a Sprint?
On some teams, I've seen it be a combination of operations and Product Management stating that either new/missed requirements came in, or bugs are severe enough to warrant injection. The Scrum 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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How can we handle urgent work items defined by leadership at the end of a Sprint?
The Change Management Situation
My Scrum Team received 2 urgent and critical tickets from top management at the end of the Sprint with 3 days left. The tickets were related to a feature that was to be ...
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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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How to deal with conflicting developers in Scrum team?
I'm a Scrum Master in a project. The development team merged into two separate teams and now counts eight people. John and Peter are previous team leads - very experienced C++ developers who know the ...
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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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Does a business analyst fit into the Scrum framework?
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Let's consider a software development project made for an external customer. The development company (the vendor) has the usual positions and specialists: developers, testers, business ...
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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 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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