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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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In Scrum, why don't you use aging and guaranteed time slice to prevent outdated tasks in the backlog?
If there are many tasks in the backlog and the product owner keeps adding them, some of the tasks become outdated and in practice they are never implemented by the team.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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Can TDD be suitable for a small team with overlapping but not identical domain knowledge
I am trying to get a better understanding of TDD. From a quick google I've found this:
In layman’s terms, Test Driven Development (TDD) is a software development practice that focuses on creating ...
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Is our outsourced software vendor "Agile" or do they just not want to plan things?
UPDATE: Myself and the business unit leader were able to make enough noise with the bosses such that the vendor has agreed to prepare User Stories for the work they have done and also for all new work ...
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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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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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Estimates without estimates
I have recently started working with a new large company, which has lots of different teams, working on different products, which are largely self-managed and are run quite differently.
My team is ...
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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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Should story points be re-estimated when rolling un-finished stories into next sprint?
We plan our sprint capacity in story points - so for example we have 20 points available when planning a sprint.
When we have stories which were not completed in the previous sprint, we generally roll ...
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