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Step 7: Planning Poker®
In this step development team is going to estimate stories. Who Scrum Master Developers Planning Poker® Our backlog contains all known stories which has to be developed for product. Team sits down together around the table and they starts to discuss size of each story. Product Development Product Backlog Every developer will get cards with modified sequence of Fibonacci numbers. Then Scrum Master will select first story. Every [...]
ScrumDesk for Windows (retired): Step 8 – Sprint planning meeting
In this step product, owner and development team will plan sprint. Who Product Owner Scrum Master Developers Visitors Sprint planning meeting Development team meats with the product owner on sprint planning meetings. The product owner shows the team his plan for the first sprint. Product owners chose stories by top importance (priority). Planning View Switch to the Planning View by clicking on the corresponding menu item. This view provides [...]
Step 9: Daily standup in Scrum
Who Scrum Master Developers Visitors Starting the sprint Scrum Master login to ScrumDesk before the Daily Scrum Meeting. The first thing he must do is start the sprint. To start it display SideView/Sprint and press the big red Start sprint button. If a sprint is started all changes made to remaining and duration time, changes to stories state are tracked by ScrumDesk. ScrumDesk is using this information for automatic [...]
How to do Agile Estimation by Mike Cohn
How to do Agile estimation with story points? Agile estimation is based on simple principles: apply relative comparison as people are better in relative estimation not absolute, compare items with estimation references included in the estimation catalogue, use a simple scale based on the modified Fibonacci scale numbers of which are known as the storypoint, estimate together, as a crowd, agree on final estimation, compare the complexity of [...]
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