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Scrum is an agile software development methodology developed by Ken Schwaber and Jeff Sutherland in the mid-1990s. Scrum is based on a "Sprint," which is typically a 30-day period for delivering a working part of the system. Each Sprint starts with a two to three-hour planning session that includes the customer (product owner), the facilitator (Scrum master) and the cross-functional team. The customer describes the highest priority in the backlog, and after the team agrees on how much of it to do, it is left alone to do it. To keep the team synchronized, there is a 15-minute meeting every day (daily scrum).

Scrum Roles

Non formal roles:

  • Stakeholders
  • Managers

See Scrum Roles

Scrum meetings

  • Daily Scrum
  • Sprint Planning
  • Sprint Review
  • Sprint Retrospective

Scrum process

Wikipedia Article

External Links:

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Can burnout happen when doing Scrum sprints continuously?

I'm with a pretty small startup and we started using a form of a Scrum/Agile development cycle. In many ways I enjoy Scrum. We have relatively short sprints (2 weeks) and I like the Burn Down Chart to track the team's progress. I also like the…
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Best ways to fit bug fixing into a Scrum process?

I have been studying and reading about Scrum in the last few days and reading about Sprint Planning and tasks. One problem that popped into my mind is how to deal with bugs in Scrum. Henrik Kniberg lists some ways of dealing with this issue in his…
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How does Scrum work when you have multiple projects?

I'm fairly well read in the benefits and processes of Scrum. I get the ideas on the backlog, burndown charts, iterations, using user stories, and other various concepts of the Scrum "framework". With that said... I work for a web development firm…
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How to automate development environment setup?

Every time a new developer joins the team or the computer a developer is using changes, the developer needs to do lots of work to setup the local development environment to make the current project work. As a SCRUM team we are trying to automate…
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A completely free agile software process tool

I know slightly close questions have been asked before but this question is a bit different. We are a start-up company with a very limited budget and we are looking for a completely free Agile software development process tool without any limitation…
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Remove weekends from Burndown in Board View (TFS 2012 - Scrum 2.0)

I would like to modify the Burndown chart in TFS 2012's Scrum 2.0 Template so that weekends no longer show. I've already looked at this article, but unfortunately the solution listed there doesn't apply to the Burndown Chart when running from Board…
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Help me understand how QA works in Scrum

Apparently we use the Scrum development methodology. Here's generally how it goes: Developers thrash around trying to accomplish their tasks. Generally the tasks take most of the sprint to complete. QA pesters Dev to release something they can…
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What is the difference between Sprint and Iteration in Scrum and length of each Sprint?

Is there a difference between Sprint and an Iteration or one can have Iterations within a Sprint or Sprint is just the terminology used instead of Iteration in Scrum? It will be helpful if someone can throw some light on this. Suppose there are 4…
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What does a scrum master do all day?

To quote wikipedia: Scrum is facilitated by a ScrumMaster, whose primary job is to remove impediments to the ability of the team to deliver the sprint goal. The ScrumMaster is not the leader of the team (as they are self-organizing) but acts as a…
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What are Epics in regard of features and backlog items in Team Foundation?

From this link I assert that a feature is a set of backlog items, but what is an epic supposed to be?
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Breaking a project's first User Story in to tasks

I'm starting a new project from scratch and have written User Stores to describe how a given user will interact with the system. But, I'm having trouble understanding how to break the first user story in to tasks without the first one becoming an…
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Redmine and Scrum

What is the best support for Scrum in Redmine? Best practices? Plugin support? All plugins I've tried are either not that active anymore and/or not up to the task of managing a major project using Scrum. I've googled to no avail...
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How did you sign a contract to an Agile project? (not how you think you would, how you did)

To execute an Agile project you first need a contract. No contract – no project! No project – no Agile, SCRUM or whatsoever! The contract, if we are talking about mid to big projects, must have well defined safety triggers. I.e. customers want to be…
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The Agile Way: Integration Testing vs Functional Testing or both?

I work in an office which has been doing Agile for a while now. We use Scrum for project management and mix in the engineering practices of XP. It works well and we are constantly learning lessons and refining our process. I would like to tell you…
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Scrum backlog excel templates

I'd like to try scrum with my team. Studied a lot of posts about scrum tools here, but i think it's all superfluous and excel file is ok for product and sprint backlog. But it's problem to fing a good template. Maybe somebody could share excel…
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