Questions tagged [agile]
Agile software development is a group of software development methodologies based on iterative and incremental development, where requirements and solutions evolve through collaboration between self-organizing, cross-functional teams.
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Can Partial or Hybrid Roles Be Defined in Scrumban? [closed]
I recently read an interesting article on Atlassian that explored the concept of Scrumban, a hybrid approach that integrates elements of both Scrum and Kanban methodologies. The article led me to ...
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Story points and many small tasks
My director and I are having a recurring conversation about story points and planning and I wanted to get additional feedback from this community.
We use fibonacci story points. When we plan a feature ...
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How to Mitigate Risks Before Delivering a Project with Limited Testing?
I’m currently leading a project where I completed 80% of the work myself because I felt a strong expectation from the team to ensure timely delivery. The rest of the team contributed about 20%. Due to ...
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Is an user story totally a requirement from the user?
As a user... I want to .., so that...
Here, we are collecting the requirement as a BA, and the user says the so that part
while the BA understands and writes the As a user.. I want to.. part, some ...
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Azure DevOps roll over unfinished stories
Disclaimer: I have read this post, however, I am still unsure about it.
What we did in the past:
When a story was unfinished at the end of the sprint, we duplicated it (along with the child task), ...
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Is it worth to have only Component teams in Software development? [closed]
I am in a Component team setup now where there are only Front-end teams, Business logic teams, SAP teams etc. where they work separately in different Scrum teams, different Sprints, backlogs etc. ...
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Are story points really a good measure for velocity?
Story points are used quite a lot nowadays, especially in Scrum to measure how much work the team can complete during a sprint. There are tons of articles out there explaining why estimating in story ...
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Is it okay to have architects to work under the product owner as a part of scrum team? [closed]
So, as an architect, I work across the ecosystem, defining solutions, defining the future roadmap, and making architectural changes, upgrades, etc., along with collaborating with third-party vendors ...
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Finding a good development and review strategy
I will describe two development and code review processes, both describing the upsides and downsides to each version. Ideally we want to have a process that has no downsides and as much upsides as ...
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Are group time estimates standard?
Our team assigns time estimates to tasks (not stories) in a group setting, so one of us will give an estimate that then anyone who picks up the stories has to meet or else gets questioned about it. ...
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Team Development Workflow
I think my team may be doing agile a bit wrong but I can't put my finger on exactly how.
After a collaborative design of a feature that'll take a week or so to accomplish, we break into tasks which is ...
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How do you do major changes within an iterative setup?
I am part of a project that develops a software with quite a clearly defined in- and output.
But the path (a chain of intermediate steps and artefacts) is not yet clear.
We start with a toy-ish ...
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In Scrum, why don't you use aging and guaranteed time slice to prevent outdated tasks in the backlog?
If there are many tasks in the backlog and the product owner keeps adding them, some of the tasks become outdated and in practice they are never implemented by the team. Why don't we borrow some ...
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How to distribute development and bug fixes tasks
I am an engineering manager and I manage an engineer who is responsible for a backlog with long lasting development tasks and many bugs arriving a few times a week. We work in scrum sprints but when a ...
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Can BDD acceptance criteria format (Given - When - Then) be used for technical debt or tasks?
Behavior-driven development is meant to be used at the business/user level.
However, I find the keywords "Given - When - Then" a good format for technical stories as well, but I am very ...
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