Category Archives: Scrum

Street Fighter Game – Built using Agile and Scrum

This post is from agilescout.com This may be a very revealing post for me… because my favorite video game of all time is Street Fighter IV. I absolutely love zombies (agile zombies?) and Street Fighter. In an interview with 1UP, … Continue reading

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World record for the longest daily stand-up

This is a very quick post to report that today I learned of a daily stand-up which lasted 4 hours!  I am not sure how this is possible, but I would really like to know if the team really were … Continue reading

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Scrum: is the daily stand-up flawed?

It occurred to me today after witnessing a particularly poorly-focused stand-up that there could be a flaw in the way that the structure and format is set up. Sure, we say that each member should update the rest of the … Continue reading

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An introduction to scary points

One of the fundamental aspects of Scrum is to organise work into user stories to which the team collectively assigns complexity points.  From this, the team’s sprint velocity can be determined and this in turn aids the ability to estimate … Continue reading

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Patterns for Splitting User Stories

This post is from richardlawrence.info by Richard Lawrence Good user stories follow Bill Wake’s INVEST model. They’re Independent, Negotiable, Valuable, Estimable, Small, and Testable. The small requirement drives us to split large stories. But the stories after splitting still have to follow … Continue reading

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Mini-waterfall

Moving from an unwieldy, bloated software development life cycle to short, bite-sized ones seems to be the first essential step in making the transition to Agile.  But this is just the beginning. One way of looking at our transition was … Continue reading

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Agile: because there just has to be a better way

It’s the day before the release.  All us developers are working like crazy to get everything done in time for the release tomorrow.  We have hit several problems.  We are having cross-browser compatibility problems.  We are having trouble with a … Continue reading

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