Optimizing Your Scrum Team with The Happiness Metric
What is the key to high productivity via Scrum? According to Alex Brown, Chief Operating Officer at Scrum Inc., it all comes down to the retrospective and the “happiness metric.”
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Working as a UX Professional in a Scrum Teams
The Scrum approach recommends to deliver software incrementally in small iterations. This seems to be always an issue with activities that require a global view on the developed application like the software architecture or the user interface. In this blog post, Aviva Rosenstein, who manages user research for Salesforce, shares here experience about integrating user experience (UX) design into the Scrum development process.
Being a Software Tester in Scrum
As many testers have, I struggled in my first year on a Scrum team. How do I write tests without a spec? How do I know when I am done with software testing when there is no test plan? I present this article to show the important contributions that software testers on Scrum teams can make in the phase of feature and user stories creation.
A Solution for Technical Debt
Technical debt due to bad code quality is one the problem that every Scrum development team might face in their application. In this blog post, Henrik Kniberg discusses the causes of technical debt and provides some hints on how to manage it.
How to Use Velocity
Velocity can be defined as a measurement of how much the Scrum team can get done in a Sprint, based on past results. In this article, Beth Macy discusses how reliable is velocity and how you can use it.
Doing Nothing with Technical Debt
Technical Debt is defined as the eventual consequences of poor or evolving software architecture and software development within a codebase. Sometimes you have to pay it if you want that you can continue to maintain your application. But sometimes it is better to leave the situation unchanged as Ken Rubin wrote in his book.
Pairing Programmers and Testers
Scrum requires that members of the team collaborate. One of the agile software development practice used to collaborate is pair programming. In his blog post, Erik Brickarp reports his experience when pairing a programmer and a software tester.