Questions tagged [sprint]
A sprints in Scrum, or otherwise known as an iteration, is the heartbeat of the Scrum cycle.
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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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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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What kind of work (if any) should not be included in the sprint
I work at a company where we have your typical sprints filled with engineering stories that need to get done. But then we have "work" that is not allocated within the sprint. This "...
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Agile Sprint Planning for Cross-Functional Teams (UX, UI, Dev) [closed]
We have recently started using Agile methodology implemented with Jira. We are struggling to decide how best to arrange Sprints, Epics, Stories, etc when working across different departments. For ...
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C (Arduino): treat a #defined hex value as ASCII chars [closed]
This is Arduino code, but since it uses C syntax, and it's not Arduino-specific, I thought I'd ask here. I have a few values defined so: #define PID_RPM 0x0C Typically it's used as a hex number. But ...
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How many sprints between 2 dates when the number of weeks cannot be exactly divided by sprint lenght?
I want to calculate how many sprints I have between two dates, for example : April 1,2020 and June 4,2020. The number of weeks between the two dates is : 9 weeks and 1 day. My Sprints are 2 weeks ...
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Should developers stop doing features several days before sprint end?
Imagine we have a Sprint Backlog defined, consisting of business features to code. When a feature is developed and delivered (deployed to a test server), QA can start manual testing (we don't have ...
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What's a good solution for prioritising tasks for a company code library?
I work at a game company that has a Core Library with a bunch of ultities, extensions and systems that we typically import large chunks of into projects. Recently we have been trying to improve our ...
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How much technical detail should we talk in Sprint Planning 2
I'm working in a Scrum team, We have Sprint Planning 2 to breakdown backlog into technical tasks. The team is pretty big around 12 developers, We can't split cause it's not under our control. We ...
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Visualising a sprint as a delta to a software component diagram? [closed]
Given a software component diagram, a sprint could be represented as a delta of that diagram. That delta would reflect how the sprint affect the components. Each component could for example have a ...
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Team focusing on tasks, but not on User Stories
We have an architecturally layered application, with web frontend, java backend, java and python microservices, DB etc. so when we do a User Story representing business value, it's mostly broken down ...
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As a developer, how should I work differently in kanban vs scrum?
I am a junior back-end developer at a large company in the US. At the moment, my 10-member team is changing its approach from Kanban to scrum (2 week sprints). My current way of working is this: I ...
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How to avoid code review bottlenecks when some of the team pair program
There is a school of thought that describes code reviews as the number one priority activity for all developers in a sprint since they are either: a) A source of unrealised value b) A source of bugs ...
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How much front-end design must be done before every Sprint in Scrum?
I'm a front-end developer working as a member of an agile team. I have no clue how much of UI/UX must be done before every sprint and how much of it I can postpone for later.
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Managing sprints for multiple releases of the same product for the same team
How do you plan a sprint for the same product with two releases when the same team will be working on both releases during the sprint cycle? To give some background, our product gets released out to ...
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