Eduardo, ... Hi, I just noticed your message today, and it looked like you didn't get any responses. ... Yes, pay attention to the things they know that are...
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Dominick Deinde
dominick@...
Feb 1, 2012 4:41 pm
Do we generate design documents in scrum and when ?...
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Michael James
michaeljames...
Feb 1, 2012 5:22 pm
One way to handle it: If this is a cross-cutting need, the team may write this down as part of their definition of done affecting all other PBIs. --mj...
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Michael James
michaeljames...
Feb 1, 2012 5:33 pm
This book has stuff I wish I'd known years ago: ...
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Chet Hendrickson
suechet
Feb 1, 2012 5:48 pm
Hello Dominick, Scrum is silent on this point. The development team my use process they like, as long as they meet the agreed upon definition of done....
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Steve
steveatootac
Feb 1, 2012 6:31 pm
I agree with Michael but some organisations (Agile immature) still like to have this sort of stuff in 'the requirements'. They are effectively 'non-functional...
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Ram Srinivasan
ram_eagle2k
Feb 1, 2012 6:44 pm
You can join the agile community of practice, and look under webinar, we have a few ones there Ram...
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Bret Wortman
WortmanB
Feb 1, 2012 6:44 pm
Good. They're not as I understand it either. I'm just really struggling with how the team ought to capture the fact that there's work to be done to make these...
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Tim Lesher
tim_lesher
Feb 1, 2012 6:44 pm
On Wed, Feb 1, 2012 at 06:52, Michael Jones ... That's the way we do it here (using the Mike Cohn cards, actually). But... ... What we *have* found is that...
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Richard Hundhausen
rhundhausen
Feb 1, 2012 6:44 pm
It would make more sense to add a technical practice like that to the team's definition of done. I'd rewrite it to be more normalized (auditable) with the...
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Eduardo Cristiano Neg...
eduardocnegrao
Feb 1, 2012 6:44 pm
Ok George! Your answers will be very useful! I'm gonna read one of theses books, for sure. Thank you so much! Sincerely,* * On Wed, Feb 1, 2012 at 12:23 PM,...
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frede_swe
Feb 1, 2012 7:29 pm
Hi all, Our current development process can best be described as iterative waterfall. We don't have a clear definition of done, stories are spilled over from...
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Steve Ropa
steveropa
Feb 1, 2012 7:55 pm
That was a really good choice. The odds are good that, if you need the story again, you will find a better way to write it the next time. That's how I...
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Steve Ropa
steveropa
Feb 1, 2012 9:09 pm
My inclination would be to leave it as a team agreement. Just part of how we do business. Not everything needs to be documented. One question would be,...
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mj4scrum@...
michaeljames...
Feb 1, 2012 9:28 pm
I've seen value in having the team write their agreements with each other, even if that document will not be retained. I'm thinking of a markerboard or...
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Wouter Lagerweij
wouterla
Feb 1, 2012 10:14 pm
Hi Bejan, I've come across different understandings of that term. Some talk about ACs for a project, which then can be quality levels or agreed minimum scope. ...
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Wouter Lagerweij
wouterla
Feb 1, 2012 10:34 pm
Hi Ram, I've used the 'Batman' (we ironically called it 'Developer of the week') approach. It worked well in a situation where there was a limited influx of ...
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Wouter Lagerweij
wouterla
Feb 1, 2012 10:42 pm
Hi Victoria, Self-organisation doesn't happen magically, and progress towards it can be very easily undone. You obviously have some feeling on what is in the...
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Wouter Lagerweij
wouterla
Feb 1, 2012 10:53 pm
Hi Michael, Tim has given a great reply. I work in the same way: 13 is too big to fit into a sprint (even if the velocity is normally 30), and is an indication...
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Wouter Lagerweij
wouterla
Feb 1, 2012 11:13 pm
Hi Fredrik, I think I would start with retrospectives. You certainly have identified a whole list of things that can be improved, but to improve them you'll...
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Wouter Lagerweij
wouterla
Feb 1, 2012 11:23 pm
This indeed doesn't belong on a product backlog. You might include the (catching-up) work in a sprint backlog, though. These are the kind of issues that I'd...
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Joshua Partogi
thejavafreak
Feb 1, 2012 11:59 pm
Yes. Within every Sprint. On Wednesday, February 1, 2012, Dominick Deinde <dominick@...> ... -- @jpartogi...
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George Dinwiddie
gdinwiddie
Feb 2, 2012 12:11 am
Dominick, ... Do you need design documents? Who will read them, and when? - George -- ... * George Dinwiddie * http://blog.gdinwiddie.com...
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Joshua Partogi
thejavafreak
Feb 2, 2012 12:12 am
I usually use retrospective to ask this question: "what can we do as a team so we can self-organize?" On Thursday, February 2, 2012, Wouter Lagerweij...
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Gary Brown
gb70840
Feb 2, 2012 1:13 am
Hello, Victoria! ... To me, self-organized (we use the term self-directed in my organization), means the team determines the best way to accomplish the work. ...
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Dominick Deinde
dominick@...
Feb 2, 2012 1:29 am
We have design documents as deliverables for the software development process now. My client will like to keep them as part of scrum when we convert. According...
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Gary Brown
gb70840
Feb 2, 2012 2:05 am
Hello, Dominick! ... Here is what I do. If a project is guess-timated to take three months, I take about a week to establish team working agreements (you can...
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JackM
jmilunsky
Feb 2, 2012 2:20 am
Yes most definitely if you need it. If you don't then don't do it. Always think about who is consuming this document. Will you be able to keep it up-to-date....
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JackM
jmilunsky
Feb 2, 2012 2:28 am
So here's my advice. If you leave a new scrum team to fend for themselves, it's not going to go well. I have found that the best way is to coach the team...
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JackM
jmilunsky
Feb 2, 2012 2:31 am
Try to make this just part of the done criteria for a story. Jack www.agilebuddy.com...
