Below you will find pages that utilize the taxonomy term “agile”
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10 agile contracts
This post is a slightly updated version of the one published earlier. It was created by Peter Stevens who have later written a whole e-book on Agile Contracts
As a customer or supplier of software services at the beginning of a Software Development Project, you know that there is too much at stake to work with just a verbal agreement. A contract is really just a set of written playing rules. The right rules increase the chance of success for both parties. The wrong rules make cooperation difficult and hinder progress. What are the available playing rules and what is the best approach for a agile project?
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Measures of size
This post is a slightly updated version of the one published earlier
Measurement is fundamental to any engineering discipline and the planning of a software creation work is no different. Whenever you plan to make or renew a piece of software the most important metric as the workload size. Measure of size is important because knowing the amount of work to do and the team skills (i.e. velocity) you can easily derive the work costs and duration.
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Product Backlog
This post is a slightly updated version of the one published earlier
Product backlog always lists items adding value for the customer. It includes functional requirements and non-functional requirements. It can also include items required by the team, but only the ones that will eventually bring value to the customer, e.g. taking into use a continuous integration server in order to guarantee the continuous end product quality. Product backlog cannot include concrete low level tasks and requests for building the intermediate artifacts.
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Simple Product Backlog
Want to try handling your Scrum product backlog in just Excel? Here is a template with lots of comments and a video on how to use it.