Questions tagged [scrum]

For questions about using or implementing the Scrum framework.

Definition of Scrum from the Scrum guide:

Scrum (n): A framework within which people can address complex adaptive problems, while productively and creatively delivering products of the highest possible value.

Scrum is:

  • Lightweight
  • Simple to understand
  • Difficult to master

Scrum is a process framework that has been used to manage complex product development since the early 1990s. Scrum is not a process or a technique for building products; rather, it is a framework within which you can employ various processes and techniques. Scrum makes clear the relative efficacy of your product management and development practices so that you can improve.

The Scrum framework consists of Scrum Teams and their associated roles, events, artifacts, and rules. Each component within the framework serves a specific purpose and is essential to Scrum’s success and usage.

The rules of Scrum bind together the events, roles, and artifacts, governing the relationships and interaction between them. The rules of Scrum are described throughout the body of this document.

Specific tactics for using the Scrum framework vary and are described elsewhere.

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In Scrum, do we really let people self-organize around their work?

This is what Scrum Guide says about the members of Scrum Team: They are also self-managing, meaning they internally decide who does what, when, and how. But we all know that very often if we would let the team members decide who does what, when,…
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What to do when management prohibits test swarming by development team?

I'm a product owner on a 10 people Scrum team (too big of a team already) and last week Management came to us stating that developers can no longer participate in testing from the next sprint on, and that they need to focus on development activities…
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Problem with scrum master and developer role?

Can the scrum master be a programmer on the team and take the role of scrum master just for now? As is done in the time you must make a plan?
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Should I provide my boss and team with documentation about the Scrum process?

I have been chosen to be responsible for rolling out Scrum in my small 5 man software development team. I am also a developer at the same time. I have experience being in a non-agile team and having it rolled out and I know Scrum favours…
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Additional Scrum Master duties outside of team

I'm finding that outside of the Scrum Master duties and responsibilities, I'm not filling my day at work. We run a two week sprint cycle, daily I do the standup with developers and write up the notes from it. Then I do a standup with business…
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As a Scrum Master, what sort of administrative tasks should I do and what should the team do?

I have a 'do it myself or leave it for the team' dillema for some sort of tasks. Let me introduce an example, to be clear what I mean: there is a team, which uses jira* as a task container. Every sprint tasks are created in this tool. After…
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In Scrum, are stories supposed to be a replacement for product requirements?

In Scrum, are stories and acceptance criteria supposed to be a replacement for project scope and product requirements? Is it convenient that all requirements are scattered over many issues in Jira (instead of being kept in a single document)?
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If we can’t finish all tasks, does this mean we are doing Scrum wrong?

I'm working in an online mobile game development team, and we've been doing Scrum for several sprints. There are various reasons, but we seem never able to finish all items selected for an sprint. Does this mean we are doing something wrong in…
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Scrum with highly specialized developers

Where I'm currently working, I'm the only BizTalk/Integration developer. Other developers are specialized in hand-held devices, others in Silverlight, and other in electronic devices. I don't know what they know, and they don't know what I know. …
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How to make daily Scrum more accessible to participants?

We are in our 10th Sprint right now, and I can see a pattern during dailies. When a person is doing his or her speech which involve no one else and when his work is a little bit difficult to grasp technologically, then no one really cares about what…
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Scrum daily - Ask the 3 questions per developer or go by tickets?

We are a small team of around 5 developers. We're using a ticketmanagement-system that has a virtual Scrumboard. On the Scrumboard are several columns. The items on the columns are sorted by priority: New | Consultation | Working | Waiting | Test &…
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How do Scrum teams manage their dependencies on other teams?

In a Scrum team, what do you do with stories that require work to be done by another team? The work required of the other team could be well defined and in parallel: "We'll do this, and we want you to do that." Or it could be that we're asking the…
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What is the "Physical Information Radiators" in the context of Scrum?

I'm pretty new to the Scrum thing. I'm reading more and more of it. I'm very enchanted by the idea. I visited this page about the 12 points of the Scrum framework by Scott of Rapid Scrum. What is the "Physical Information Radiators" that he's…
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What would be the pressure for developers in scrum?

In a typical non-Scrum environment, a Project (or, Product, maybe) Manager will be the one responsible for project/product success, and so assigns tasks to the members, make sure it gets completed. Gives pressure to the assigned members. When…
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Perfectionists in scrum

I am a scrum master for a team that includes an engineer who is a perfectionist. He has trouble letting issues become done, even after we've focused as a team on ensuring that acceptance criteria capture what we'd like the story to encompass. In the…
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