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What could be my risk mitigation strategies if my client wants to contract UAT?
My client wants to squeeze UAT into 6 working days from originally planned 10 working days. This is because they want to go live because of an impending business reason. As a risk mitigation strategy I have proposed for 4 weeks of hypercare instead…
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What does a QA team do during the development phase of a sprint in Agile Scrum?
I understand that, in theory, QA should be working with dev "collaborating" right from the day 1 of a sprint. But how does it actually work in real life? Let me present two scenarios -
Scenario 1 where a story requires 3 days of development - Let's…
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Difference between sprint backlog and sprint goal?
One of the questions while PSM I™ Preparation Quiz which I was unable to digest was,
What provides guidance to the Development Team on why it is building
the Increment?
The Sprint Backlog
The Product Owner
The Sprint Goal
The Scrum…
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Can someone please explain when Capability Maturity Model is used when analyzing data structures?
From reading the entry on Wikipedia, Capability Maturity Model is an abstraction of an existing system. I'm not sure when this abstraction is employed when analyzing an organization's data structure. Could someone please explain this to me?
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What metrics can we generate from t-shirt sizes (rather than story points) when estimating user stories?
If I am using T-shirt sizing for my user story estimates, what metrics I can measure and report? We currently use a Sprint burn-down chart when using story points.
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Should all team members be assigned user stories?
This is a very basic question but I don't see any answers on it yet.
Scenario: We did sprint planning and I noticed some one saying
Not all developers have a task to do. We need to add more tasks so that everybody has work.
I have a problem with…
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Is a mid sprint check-in/catch-up a good idea
Scenario: With scrum teams doing a daily stand-up to inform team of progress (yesterday and today) and any impediments. I wonder sometimes do they actually bring up impediments, concerns or issues. Can we have a mid sprint (Once a sprint) catch-up…
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Should we arrange multiple agile sub-teams along customer groups or along software components?
The question's context is a company that creates a software product that consists of several functional components (you could also call them sub-products) and sells the product to a rather small number of customers (~10 core customers, <100 in…
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Is QA stage mandatory to be included into user story cycle?
The problem I came across:
A 2-week Sprint is close to the end (let's say 80% of the time has passed by)
A particular user story has just been completed (and has unit tests)
What next? Testing takes time, especially if a special environment should…
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How to make Agile and Waterfall work together
Before I start, I just want to point out that this is a hypothetical question that I was recently asked in an interview. I'd like to be able to answer it with conviction if it ever comes up again. Any views or links to valuable resources would be…
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Prioritizing Features
Question for fellow product owners/product managers. How do you prioritize your features? We are currently trying to develop some common criteria (as objective as possible) that we can use to prioritize our features. At the very least, we want…
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Product Owner in different time zone from scrum team
I am a product owner for a remote scrum team. I am on the east coast of the US. The scrum team is in India. This is a 10.5 hour time difference. I have been participating in their daily scrum at 6:30am EST for a few months now. This is…
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Should impact on schedule because of scope change be reported as delay?
In my company, if there is any delay in the schedule I need to report the delay-reason and countermeasure. Sometimes this delay happens because of scope change.
My question is: Should I report it as "delay" in that case what would be the…
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questions around "standups" for remote team
I have been working as a software developer for more than a decade. Recently I took a new job where I have to manage a remote team of 5 developers.
We have a "stand up" conference call every day at 5pm my time, 10 am their time. (I am the team…
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What should a scrum team do if they complete work earlier than expected?
Our development team estimates that they can complete 30 story points in the current iteration. Partway through the sprint they realize that they will complete 50 story points at their current rate. What we should do?
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