Questions tagged [scrum]
An agile framework within which a Product Owner (PO), Development Team (DT) of 3-9 Developers and a Scrum Master (SM) work as the Scrum Team (ST) to build and sustain complex products of the highest possible value. They do this work within a timebox called a Sprint; Sprints may be shorter, but may not last more than 30 days. Events, roles and artifacts are described definitively in the official Scrum guide: http://scrumguides.org/scrum-guide.html
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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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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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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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How to use trunk based development when using Scrum [closed]
In Scrum we do a 2 week sprint and ship the features after the sprint. I have heard a lot of good things about TBD, but does it conflict with Scrum? Can anyone share your workflow if it is possible ...
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In Scrum, why don't you use aging and guaranteed time slice to prevent outdated tasks in the backlog?
If there are many tasks in the backlog and the product owner keeps adding them, some of the tasks become outdated and in practice they are never implemented by the team.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 make Scrum less stressful
I have worked with Scrum in various IT companies on software development projects. This framework has become the standard in several companies, but I have not yet managed to make friends with it ...
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Should Acceptance Criteria be mapped to unit tests?
My organisation is adapting a new SDLC process, and a part of this is to force engineers to map acceptance criteria (AC) to unit tests written for each user story in the pull request (PR).
To satisfy ...
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The role of the Product Owner in a Scrum Team following Domain-Driven Design
In the Scrum framework, the Product Owner is the person responsible for preparing the backlog, refining it, and prioritizing it. He/she is expected to be a domain expert and somebody with enough ...
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How to manage inter team communication while working on same feature in microservice architecture?
We are a team of around 60 software engineers divided into almost 6 teams. We are working on an ecommerce project and following microservice architecture. Each team is responsible for their own ...
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Scrum Team - Being asked to estimate project end date with an incomplete backlog
Looking for ideas in how to go about providing an estimate for project completion, when a fairly large percentage of backlog is not defined enough to confidently assign story points. This is a ...
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Does Scrum prescribe work item statuses and their meanings?
At work, we're using Scrum with Azure DevOps (specifically using the Scrum process to manage our items) to run our sprints.
My question is, does the Scrum process within Azure Boards or Scrum in ...
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How to represent technical debt in agile development using azure devops?
As we are implementing some stories we find some things which need to be put on a backlog as technical debt, often because there are larger questions linked to other stories or features which cannot ...
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Shared Branch while working on User Story
Two developers (front-end and back-end) are working on one User Story, while the front-end is dependent on the work of the back-end. What is the best way to handle this dependency regarding the ...
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I have several user stories which will be provided by a new application, where do I detail setting up the new application itself? [duplicate]
We have a feature like "new command-line query tool" and stories like:
As a user, I can do X
As a user, I can do Y
As a user, I can do Z
Where/how do I detail "create the test harness ...
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