Has research been done on the effectiveness of Planning Poker as an estimation technique?
Although it is a commonly held opinion that planning poker improves the accuracy of project estimations (a small sample of which demonstrated on this question), has any defined research been done on the subject?
Unforeseen Spike in a Sprint… what to do?
I did a look around and couldn’t find a question that addresses my case, so I figured I would post.
How to write “SMART” Objectives as an agile developer?
Like many corporations the company I work for is transitioning to a performance review system based on SMART objectives. My team is a high functioning agile development team employing practices from Extreme Programming. To our great benefit our employment of agile practices has the full support of immediate and upper management.
When should user stories be combined and separated? [closed]
Closed 11 years ago.
Velocity does not plateau over time, why?
I have plotted my team burn up chart and its velocity per iteration. To me it looks really bad (velocity fluctuates a lot). What should I be looking for to diagnose the root cause of this behaviour?
In agile development, should I try persistence in flat file before database?
Somebody explained to me that since in agile development, policy and the application logic should be more important than details such as persistence method, persistence decision should be taken at the end. So it might be a good idea to start with simpler persistence such as flat files, until we reach the point the weakness of this method become apparent, and only then we change the persistence, e.g. by using relational database.
How to write tasks in Jira when using Scrum?
I am going to start a new project using Scrum and Jira and I have some questions regarding how to write proper tasks in Jira.
In good Scrum, when and how should the ideation and story writing occur? [closed]
It’s difficult to tell what is being asked here. This question is ambiguous, vague, incomplete, overly broad, or rhetorical and cannot be reasonably answered in its current form. For help clarifying this question so that it can be reopened, visit the help center. Closed 11 years ago. It seems like most of the Scrum articles […]
In Agile development, who owns the software “features” and how to you manage the development?
Some development teams in my company are switching to Agile development practices and their developers’ work seem to be diminishing to discuss and program minutia about trivial software features because of two week iteration cycles. And also because of “any developer can fix any bug” mentality. I have recently joined one of those team, transferring from another team in the same company…
Should programmers talk with customers / users according to MSF / agile methods?
I’ve just read two statements that seem to be very different: