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Where do requirements end and design begin?
I imagine this question has been asked in various forms previously but I couldn't locate a specific answer after searching around.
I am currently working in an independent oversight role on an outsourced software development project. The team and…
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Documenting requirements on an Agile project
One of the values of the Agile Manifesto is "working software over comprehensive documentation". And yet there is a need for requirements to be documented. If a feature developed 6 months ago is being altered, I (as a developer) need a place to go…
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Caution or Waste?
Are there any strict definitions regarding the difference between caution/security/safety and waste? For example, consider the following scenarios:
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"We just finished this. We'd better test it to make sure it actually works."
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"We're going…
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How to get sprint progress from complexity-based estimation?
We are a small IT team in a startup and are composed as such:
2 frontend engineers (1 senior, 1 junior)
2 backend engineers (1 senior, 1 junior)
We recently (3 months ago) started to use a Scrum methodology to manage our projects. It brought us…
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How to differentiate old bugs from new bugs during a sprint?
In a sprint where we fix old bugs as well build new features, we will encounter 3 types of "bugs" in in a scrum board:
Bugs introduced by current stories
Bugs newly discovered during sprint but are not from current stories
Bugs previously…
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Example epics for an mobile game
I want to define epics for the following project: "a mobile application which makes you discover a city through a detective game".
The game basically needs to display your position on a map to get you from one key point to another; when you arrive…
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Development manager in the morning scrum
In a company, the development manager comes from a technical and PM background. He also acts as a tech lead, without doing any development work though. He focuses on the management side of the role.
In the morning scrum meeting, the developers…
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Daily Standup, Demo, Retrospective - Mandatory? How?
I've got a bit of an involved question, here. (Apologies if I provided too much unnecessary explanation; if so just skip to 'The Problem'.) First, let me explain...
The Situation:
We're a middling-size company with a relatively small development…
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What are the first steps to take when given a new project?
After you've resisted the urge to run towards the door screaming, what are the first two or three things that you do to get your thoughts in order when you have been given a new project? I tend to start to think of the desired objectives and start…
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Can 'QA approved' count towards your team's definition of done?
I'm a ScrumMaster running a development team using scrum. We are working in 3 week sprints and at the end of the sprint we often do not release our code to production right away. It could be a number of weeks before the PO passes the code in UAT and…
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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 cares about the business. However, I'm not sure…
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Better approach to sprint for QA and Dev team
We are having a challenge with fitting QA work into the Scrum process and specifically due to a need to do a full regression and load testing before releasing into production which takes up to 3 days. We are on 2-weeks sprint cycle.
Because the…
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Influence code quality as Scrum Product Owner
Introduction: In theory, Scrum says that the development team is fully responsible and self-organized when it comes to all things related to development. This also includes code quality which imho is a result of CI, automated testing and more.…
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Method for managing Scrum ceremonies with an introverted team?
I have just taken over a team of developers that appear to be quite technologically sound and on the ball. That said they are all very quiet, hours can pass without anyone really talking.
This is not necessarily a bad thing as they appear to be…
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Post Scrum facilitation
I am a scrum master for two years, and recently one of my peers raised a concern that our stand-ups are taking too long. While I am trying to keep the first part of the stand-up (i.e. updates) as short as possible, post-scrums take up to half an…
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