Planning Poker
Planning Poker is a popular method used in estimating the efforts required to build the user stories. Estimation is usually done in the Sprint Planning meeting which takes place at …
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What is the difference between a Requirement and a User Story?
In the traditional waterfall model, requirements are documented in the requirements specifications document. In scrum, there is no concept of a requirements document as we have user stories. So what …
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Story Points and Sprint Velocity
If you don’t know about User Stories, now is the right time to understand the concept before reading up the concept of story points. Every user story has story points …
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What is a User Story?
In traditional project management, a detailed requirements specification document is created, usually by a Business Analyst, which is basically a one stop shop for documenting all the project requirements. The …
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Can more than one person play the Product Owner role?
Product Owner takes difficult decisions all day long and is thus accountable for them. To avoid this accountability, is it okay to have a committee of scrum team members that …
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What exactly happens at a Sprint Retrospective?
You might be aware of Sprint Retrospective as being the last timebox event of a Sprint but what exactly happens at a Sprint? Who all are the participants and what …
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Do Self Organizing Teams have no Boss?
If you work in a self organizing team, do you not have a boss to report to? And if you do have a boss, what does she do? We answer …
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Types of Agile Documentation | Vision Statement, Project Overview, Requirements Doc, Testing Doc
Working Software over Comprehensive Documentation. Does this mean there is no need to generate any document while delivering a project using Agile? Not really, here’s the list of document that …
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Generally Accepted Scrum Practice (GASP)
Mike Cohn, who is one of the contributors to the Scrum software development method, came up with the term ‘GASP’. GASP stands for Generally Accepted Scrum Practice. In his blog, …
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3 Tips to finish your Daily Scrum meeting in 15 minutes
The Daily Scrum meeting is timeboxed at 15 minutes. But is it even practical? Are there any scrum teams out there that actually complete their scrum meetings in 15 minutes? …
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