What does a scrum master do all day? [closed]
Unfortunately we don’t have the luxury of having dedicated scrum masters. I am also a team leader and senior developer which more than fills the day.
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What is the difference between Sprint and Iteration in Scrum and length of each Sprint? [closed]
All sprints are iterations but not all iterations are sprints. Iteration is a common term in iterative and incremental development (IID). Scrum is one specialized flavor of IID so it makes sense to specialize the terminology as well. It also helps brand the methodology different from other IID methodologies 🙂 As to the sprint length: … Read more
Help me understand how QA works in Scrum [closed]
My opinion is that you have an estimation problem. It seems that the time to test each feature is missing, and only the building part is being considered when planning the sprint. I’m not saying it is an easy problem to solve, because it is more common than anything. But things that could help are: … Read more
Remove weekends from Burndown in Board View (TFS 2012 – Scrum 2.0)
UPDATE: The burndown excludes the weekends on Visual Studio Online. Later this year, this feature ships with TFS 2013 Update 2 for on-prem customers. See the announcement at http://www.visualstudio.com/news/2014-jan-22-vso. If you want to configure the working days of your team, you can click on the gear button in the top right corner which will open … Read more
A completely free agile software process tool [closed]
Trello.com Trello is free for unlimited users. Period. You almost definitely don’t need “Sub-cards”. Use the checklists instead, or if you REALLY need sub-cards, don’t have a parent sub-card. Just name the tickets something like “Epic – Story A” or “Story – task Z” or whatever. Another idea is to create two boards (did I … Read more
How to automate development environment setup? [closed]
There are several options, and sometimes a combination of these is useful: automated installation disk imaging virtualization source code control Details on the various options: Automated Installation Tools for automating installation and configuration of a workstation’s various services, tools and config files: Puppet has a learning curve but is powerful. You define classes of machines … Read more
How does Scrum work when you have multiple projects? [closed]
Scrum really doesn’t dictate that you have to be working on the one self-contained product. It simply states that there is a bunch of stuff that needs to be done (the product backlog), there is a certain amount of development time available in the next iteration (worked out from the project velocity) and there are … Read more
Best ways to fit bug fixing into a Scrum process? [closed]
This is a very good question and I have some observations when it comes to different approaches to this problem. Treating all bugs equally with backlog items might sound like a good idea in theory (work tracked in a single place) but doesn’t work well in practice. Bugs are usually low-level and more numerous, so … Read more
Can burnout happen when doing Scrum sprints continuously? [closed]
This is relatively normal and can sometimes be a complaint of our team members if projects continue for a long period of time. The key to what we’re talking about here is sustainable pace. If you and your team are able to sustain your pace over the long term, that’s excellent — you’ve achieve the … Read more