...SCRUM Development “SCRUM” is an agile developmentally framework that allows teams to adapt the changing nature requirements by delivering software in small pieces that can be used to garner feedback from stakeholders and users this improves the quality of the final product as well as reducing risks and allowing return on investments be realized sooner. The term “SCRUM” comes from the idea of using holistic or rugby approach where a team tries to go the distance as a unit passing the ball back and forth. The biggest benefits of SCRUM and agile software development is the transparency that scrum permits scrum gives one ways to expose what is going on in the situation, the second advantage is you can actually do something about it since you know what is going on in a situation. The third benefit is that things improve, scrum doesn’t solve problems but it addresses the problems or issues at hand so that an organization can fix the problem before it gets our of hand. Agile Scrum is able to work with any technology/programming language, which provokes flexibility with technology. SCRUM helps companies save time and money, which is very crucial for any company. The overhead coast in terms of process and management is minimal thus leading to a quicker cheaper result. With any product there are always disadvantages, the disadvantages of SCRUM is if any of the team members leave during a development it can have a huge inverse effect on the project development. Inexperienced resources...
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...[Title of Paper] [Student Name] [School] [Course/Number] October 10, 2010 [Instructor Name] TOPIC - SCRUM METHOD The system is interrelated with all the students and all their scientific requirements and to do so, the system needs to do some changes and some adjustments that may occur upon during real work. For higher efficiency of the work, it needs to do some tests in every single stage of the system. In terms of prompt completion, and the test that give positive results, during the design time of the project, there are some benefits that are derived from using agile methods and reasons forces us to use this method and compare it with the requirements of the project with the heavyweight methodologies for example- waterfalls and spiral models. To build the discussion forum for supporting MSc students learning semi-structured interviews, from where some samples are selected from students, librarians, lecturers. And this particular selection relies on the percentage of ever group. SCRUM is an agile framework for completing projects and the reason behind using this method is that it has many benefits to meet the needs for building its program for example it is flexible enough so that it can deal with the changes that may occur during the real work of the system. With the rapid achievement on the other methods, among the learning members of the project, the reports of the system...
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...achieve its goals” Wikipedia 2008 2 Key research directions 1. Social network analysis Coplien, 1995 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. Requirements acquisition Whitenack, 1995 Kerth, 1995 Harrison, 1996 Berczuk et. al., 2003 Evolution from analysis to design Formation and function of teams Episodes (or Agile) Scrum Configuration management patterns Cunningham, 1996 Sutherland, 2007, Sutherland, 2008 3 Organizational patterns, Agile, and Scrum 1. There are patterns in Agile development methodology Scrum is the first formal organizational pattern to describe a complete Agile process Sutherland, 2008 2. 4 Case study – Organizational Environment 1. a. Organization Environment Description The author is working with an utility holding company that provides electric and natural gas services to more than 1 million customers The IT department focuses on integrating multiple heterogeneous vendor products for internal users (front, middle, and back office) The IT department currently has 11 team members There are 3 BAs actively working with IT and more than 100 users behind BAs Agile has been applied for 2.5 years and Scrum has been officially used in two capital projects since the beginning of year 2008 (Project A and B) b. c. d. e. 5...
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...Rallying with Rally Project Management gets little better with the aid of tools. In traditional project, there were lots of tools aimed to draw a huge project plan running into thousands of lines. They were designed to track efforts, schedule, cost, overrun etc. bundled with numerous other features. When I explored to find out lifecycle management tool to use for my agile project, I found myself swamped with both open source and licensed tools. It took a while for me to remove the weeds. Yet, there were still a large number of choices that were in the race. Finally, I decided to implement Rally. Rally was one of the earliest pioneers in implementing an application lifecycle management tool to support the agile development. There has been a consistent addition of features since inception to support large scale projects and programs. Rally supports four different types of editions namely Community Edition, eXpress Edition, Enterprise Edition and Unlimited Edition Supported features and the appropriate pricing varies, with Community Edition being the minimum and the Unlimited Edition as maximum. Rally, indeed has made Community edition free for up to 10 users with the intention of allowing users to get a glimpse of what it has to offer for Agile community. I am listing out the top three impressive features which made me to choose Rally for my project. Usability: Rally uses a Web based thin client with appealing User Interface Design. Overall look and feel is good with solid performance...
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...Explain The Scrum method as it relates to the software development process. Scrum is a framework that can be viewed as a structure that supports the construction of a complex product development. Scrum is: Lightweight, Simple to understand and difficult to master. It is a framework within which you can employ various processes and techniques. The Scrum framework consists of Scrum Teams and their associated roles, events, artifacts, and rules. Each component within the framework serves a specific purpose and is essential to Scrum’s success and usage. Scrum Theory Scrum is founded on empirical process control theory, or empiricism. Empiricism in laymen’s terms means a method of study relying on things you have experienced; stuff you can see and touch. Scrum employs a repetitious, incremental approach (a little more is added each time) to optimize predictability and control risk. Three pillars uphold every implementation of empirical process control: transparency, inspection, and adaptation. The Scrum Team The Scrum Team consists of a Product Owner, the Development Team, and a Scrum Master. Scrum Teams are self-organizing and cross-functional. Self-organizing teams choose how best to accomplish their work, rather than being directed by others outside the team. The Product Owner-The Product Owner is responsible for maximizing the value of the product and the work of the Development Team. Development Teams- have the following characteristics: • They are self-organizing. No...
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... SDLC software/system devp life cycle Req analy, design, deve, testing, implementation, maint. UML Unified Modling lang.- rep the flow Use Case pictorial rep.-req doc BA interacts with clients n customers and gather req and analyze. BRD business req docu. Build a combo of programs. Defect Lifecycle. Test summary report is one of the deliverables like test results, bulk rep,test reports. Water fall WFM and agile AM- adv and dis adv; Comparison Requirement analysis tester role starts. Daily standup meeting Agile- Scrum Do not leave anything untested. Waterfall it doesn’t go back Test to break attitude, Diplomatic, think as a customer, strong desire for quality, should know about the software, attention to detail, good relations with technical and non tech ppl, Sprint Sprint Sprint Sprint BBT input and output WBT internal. Prct planning Req ana Dev Testing Implementation Sprint: Time frame Scrum master Proi based on prjct ownr. Last Part Audio recording started: 6:02 PM Saturday, December 26, 2015 BBT techniques Boundary value analysis BVA: To test within the limits. Verifying at the boundaries. Each boundary before and after.n-1,n,n+1. Negative n positive testing COMPARISION TESTING BBT Audio recording started: 5:45 PM Saturday, December 26, 2015 Equivalence partitioning: EP Audio recording started: 5:49 PM Saturday, December 26, 2015 Error guessing:...
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...Praise for Succeeding with Agile “Understanding the mechanics of an agile process is just not enough. Mike Cohn has compiled a superb and comprehensive collection of advice that will help individuals and teams with the intricate task of adopting and adapting agile processes to fit their specific challenges. This book will become the definitive handbook for agile teams.” —Colin Bird, Global Head of Agile, EMC Consulting “Mike Cohn’s experience working with so many different organizations in the adoption of agile methods shines through with practical approaches and valuable insights. If you really want agile methods to stick, this is the book to read.” —Jeff Honious,Vice President, Innovation, Reed Elsevier “Mike Cohn has done it again. Succeeding with Agile is based on his experience, and all of our experience, with agile to date. He covers from the earliest days of the project up to maturity and offers advice for the individual, the team, and the enterprise. No matter where you are in the agile cycle, this book has something for you!” —Ron Jeffries, www.XProgramming.com “If you want to start or take the next step in agile software development, this book is for you. It discusses issues, great solutions, and helpful guidelines when scaling up in agile projects. We used the guidelines from this book extensively when we introduced agile in a large, FDA-regulated department.” —Christ Vriens, Department Head of MiPlaza, part of Philips Research “If making the move to agile has always...
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...Elevator pitch: When Nils Lofgrin was sent to Thailand to reconstruct the five star resort on the southern part, little he knew about the paranormal events attached to the place. With the refusal of the local Thai workers to work in that place even after offering double wage he was left with a major uphill task to finish the construction. Lofgrin has a very less scope of improving the condition because he was into a foreign land and didn’t know how Thai people react to a paranormal event. The recent Tsunami has put fear into the minds of local people and this fear could be a reason why they are associating ghost stories and events with the resort and place as many people lost their lives in that event. The project that he has under taken is not a major one looking at the size because the basic construction of the resort has to be kept like and just few renovation and fixing is required, the major hurdle that is coming in the way of Nils Lofgrin is to find workers who could complete the construction and another major problem that the company might face in future is to attract customers. Options available for Nils? Nils can hire people from other part of Thailand and arrange a proper accommodation for them as the project seems to be not much time consuming by doing so he can make people stay on their job as they won’t leave the job easily. As around 95% of the population is Buddhist in Thailand he can place holy symbols and verses in the resort during construction so that workers...
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...Software Design and Documentation Fall 2010 Rohan Dhruva Question A: Songbird is a free and open source software audio player, whose development is sponsored by POTI Inc. Their mission is stated as "to incubate Songbird, the first Web player, to catalyse and champion a diverse, open Media Web." Songbird utilizes the cross-platform frameworks, Mozilla's XULRunner and GStreamer media framework, and is largely capable of running on Microsoft Windows, Apple Mac OS X, Solaris and Linux. The user interface of Songbird is similar to that of Apple iTunes. It also supports syncing its music library to iPods. Hence, many people have started using Songbird as an alternative to the closed source and bloated iTunes. Songbird can be downloaded from http://getsongbird.com/ User Stories: While Songbird has robust music library management, and can import the files on your hard disk to this library, it lacks the feature of importing songs from the iTunes library. This deters many new users from switching over to Songbird, because they fear losing their play count, “starred” songs, and stored metadata like lyrics and album information. Essentially all this information should be stored with the audio file itself, by making use of ID3 tags. iTunes, however, chooses to maintain this information both in its proprietary “itl” format, and as an XML file. To ease the transition for new users, Songbird should support importing from the user’s iTunes library. The other...
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...------------------------------------------------- Challenges in moving over to Agile methodology in Tata Steel ------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------- Agile software development Agile software development is a group of software development methods in which solutions evolve through collaboration between self-organizing,[1] cross-functional teams. It promotes adaptive planning, evolutionary development, early delivery, continuous improvement, and encourages rapid and flexible response to change.[2] The Manifesto for Agile Software Development,[3] also known as the Agile Manifesto, was first proclaimed in 2001, The Agile Manifesto[edit] In February 2001, 17 software developers (see below) met at the Snowbird resort in Utah to discuss lightweight development methods. Individuals and interactions over Processes and tools Working software over Comprehensive documentation Customer collaboration over Contract negotiation Responding to change over Following a plan Agile principles[edit] The Agile Manifesto is based on 12 principles:[14] 1. Customer satisfaction by early and continuous delivery of useful software 2. Welcome changing requirements, even late in development 3. Working software is delivered frequently (weeks rather than months) 4. Close, daily cooperation between business people and developers 5. Projects are built around motivated individuals, who should be trusted 6. Face-to-face conversation...
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...features, develop working software in iteration, and design the system to handle quick response to change. To adapt agile methodologies, customer representatives, managers and software developers need to sit in close proximity to build consensus. The working environment typically equipped with whiteboards that are used for brainstorming, design sessions and displaying information related to the project. Throughout the project, the team uses limited formal documentation to record all design and software changes. Such environment stimulates communication, and empowers stakeholders to make tough business, people and technical decisions as project progresses. In addition, it allows the team to have short and effective daily standup meeting (scrum) to share their daily work process and roadblocks. In agile process, all stakeholders work together to evaluate and priorities all features that customer wants. Customer representatives write high level description of individual functions they want in a given software feature (user stories) and work with software development team to finalize and prioritize them. Throughout the iterative design and implementation phase of these features, the development team will evaluate and drop unnecessary user stories or features that have yet to be implemented. Developers will design and implement more important ones. In design and implementation phase of the project, agile process constantly adjust plan base on progress of a working software...
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...Iteration Planning What is it? The purpose of the iteration planning meeting is for the team to commit to the completion of a set of the highest ranked product backlog items. This commitment defines the iteration backlog and is based on the team's velocity or capacity and the length of the iteration timebox. Who does It? Iteration planning is a collaborative effort involving these roles: • Scrum master - facilitates the meeting. • Product owner - represents the detail of the product backlog items and their acceptance criteria. • Delivery team/agile team - define the tasks and effort necessary to fulfill the commitment. Preparing for iteration planning How can a team best prepare for an iteration planning meeting? Before getting started we need to ensure: • The items in the product backlog have been sized by the team and assigned a relative story point value. • The product backlog is stack ranked to reflect the priorities of the product owner. • There is a general understanding of the acceptance criteria for these ranked backlog items. The product backlog & iteration planning The product backlog addresses existing functionality and new functionality. The order in which a product backlog item is scheduled is completely independent of its ancestry. We can further generalize and say that, for the purpose of iteration planning, the important attributes for a product backlog item are: • It is small enough to be completed in the iteration...
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...In this post, I would like to expand upon benefits and illustrate why they are compelling reasons to consider Agile. These benefits of agile software development include: Stakeholder Engagement Agile provides multiple opportunities for stakeholder and team engagement – before, during, and after each Sprint. By involving the client in every step of the project, there is a high degree of collaboration between the client and project team, providing more opportunities for the team to truly understand the client’s vision. Delivering working software early and frequently increases stakeholders' trust in the team's ability to deliver high-quality working software and encourages them to be more deeply engaged in the project. Transparency An Agile approach provides a unique opportunity for clients to be involved throughout the project, from prioritizing features to iteration planning and review sessions to frequent software builds containing new features. However, this also requires clients to understand that they are seeing a work in progress in exchange for this added benefit of transparency. Early and Predictable Delivery By using time-boxed, fixed schedule Sprints of 1-4 weeks, new features are delivered quickly and frequently, with a high level of predictability. This also provides the opportunity to release or beta test the software earlier than planned if there is sufficient business value. Predictable Costs and Schedule Because each Sprint is a fixed duration, the...
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...Agile vs. Scrum Methodology Everyone involve in software engineering is driven by cost, schedule, and time by market. Customer wants software of yesterday and at the same time they want at high quality but at the cheaper price. The demand for faster delivery has been become more demand especially during the internet era and little likely hood and little more relax attitude toward budget and time to market will occur anytime soon at the same time change affect for software engineering requirement emerged development work is conducted as consequence that software team must react to new functions and features that impose by stakeholders and within the team itself. Modern software engineering is driven by the need to be agile. Works need to execute in the agile manner, communication must be conduct in the agile fashion, and change must be conduct in an easy way. Agile is a technique that delivery technologies or IT solutions. It focuses on changing business needs and technologies. In February 2001, a group of software developers got together to create what so called “Agile Manifesto” that declared and agreed among other things. * Highest priority is to satisfy customers through early and continue provides them with valuable software. * Changing in requirement during software development is welcome. * Business people and developers must work together daily in order to complete a project. * Face to face conversation is the most efficient and effective...
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...Please read and study the case “Introducing Scrum at P2P” in Larson and Gray, 6e, pages 609-613. Please prepare your answers to the following questions (1.5 line spacing, maximum 4 pages) and submit your answer document to Canvas. Please also bring your answers to class for our discussion. Part A: 1. How well is Scrum working? The case is basically a tale of two sprints. During the first sprint, Scrum guidelines were adhered to and significant progress was made on the project. The team has evolved into self organizing group and is energized. Unfortunately during the second sprint, the project deviated from Scrum guidelines and the team seems less energized and productivity has declined. 2. What are the issues confronting the Big Foot project? Prem started off well but as soon as the project experienced trouble during the second sprint he resorted back to the traditional role of project manager as task master. Admittedly there is fine line between coaching and directing, but he needed to play a less assertive role in solving the integration problem. Here, instead of telling the team what to do, he could have poised questions that would have helped them to solve the problem themselves. This is a hard thing to do when you are under time pressure and you are confident you have the answer. He exacerbated the problem by taking control of the daily scrum away from the team. The synergy that had developed during the first sprint dissipated as team members no longer...
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