Archiv der Kategorie: Scrum

User Story vs. Use Case

Erstellt am November 8, 2015 von oliverfunke

The terms “user story” and “use case” are often used during the daily business. But what do these terms actually mean? Do both mean the same? If not, what are the differences? Which term should we use? During the daily … Weiterlesen →

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ScrumBan

Erstellt am August 30, 2015 von oliverfunke

There exist a lot of different concepts for agile software development. Scum is one of the most known concepts, which is also very popular and established in a lot of companies. Another concept, often used in software support teams, is … Weiterlesen →

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Scrum vs. Kanban

Erstellt am Juli 12, 2015 von oliverfunke

Scrum and Kanban are both very popular ways to execute software development projects in an agile manner. Within this article I want to compare these two frameworks and show their similarities and differences.   Goals and main ideas Scrum Kanban … Weiterlesen →

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Scrum is not about agile development, it is about agile projects

Erstellt am Juli 5, 2015 von oliverfunke

Possibly you have already experienced something like this: The project leader comes over to the project team and asks for help. There is some issue, like a bug or a new feature, which must be implemented within the actual sprint … Weiterlesen →

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Retro with Circles and Soup

Erstellt am Mai 24, 2015 von oliverfunke

The scrum retrospective should be used to speak about things which the scrum team wants to change or improve. Sometimes it isn’t easy to speak about such points. The team may feel as poor victim and wants that other people … Weiterlesen →

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Use scrum to push and control people

Erstellt am Mai 17, 2015 von oliverfunke

A main idea of scrum is to have a self-organized team which works independently to reach the goals defined for the sprint. So the team should be able to work without control or pressure of a team leader or product … Weiterlesen →

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Find the appropriate number and duration of sprints

Erstellt am Mai 3, 2015 von oliverfunke

If you have an iterative development process like scrum you will split up the project in sprints. According to the scrum theory you should define a fixed duration for sprints. This is a good practice but I prefer sprints of … Weiterlesen →

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Share knowledge in your team by defining module responsibilities independent of implementation responsibilities

Erstellt am März 22, 2015 von oliverfunke

Maybe you all know the following issue from your own software project: Someone of your project team gets sick, leaving the team or cannot work for the team l for other reasons. And suddenly you get big problems because no … Weiterlesen →

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Scrum Teams: autonomy vs. external control

Erstellt am März 8, 2015 von oliverfunke

In theory scrum teams should act autonomously and self-determined. An external control by the product owner is not necessary. Of course, he defines what to do, but he does not control how the development team implements the requested features. In … Weiterlesen →

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Show extraneous tasks on the Kanban board

Erstellt am Februar 15, 2015 von oliverfunke

I think you all know this situation: During a team synchronization meeting, for example during a daily standup in front of the Kanban board, each team member talks about his actual work. And now you will hear something like: “Yesterday … Weiterlesen →

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