How long should you allow for Scrum event meetings? Event Guide 4 Week Sprint 3 Week Sprint 2 Week Sprint 1 Week Sprint Sprint Planning 2 hours per week in the sprint 8 hours 6 hours 4 hours 2 hours Daily Scrum (Stand-Up) 15 minutes regardless of sprint length 15 minutes 15 minutes 15 minutes …
Planning Poker is a technique often used in Scrum teams for estimation. Equipment Each team member is given a copy of a set of cards, typically the set of cards show the Fibonacci Sequence starting with a zero (0, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 21, 34, 55, 89) or a sequence with a similar progression …
Introduction Kanban Boards are often used in Agile projects to help manage work by balancing the demand with the team’s available capacity. Having the work items and their respective status displayed visually on a Kanban Board allows the team to quickly determine the progress of work from start to finish. Using a Kanban Board When …
Three Pillars Empirical Process Control, or Empiricism, has three core concepts, these are the three pillars of Scrum: Transparency (using common language and shared standards). Inspection (of Scrum artifacts and progress toward Sprint Goal). Adaption (with improvements and adjustments to minimise deviations). Scrum Values To support these three pillars, Scrum emphasises the following values to …
Product Backlog The Product Backlog is an ordered collection of all known work to be done for the product. It is dynamic and never complete, constantly changing to keep the product appropriate, competitive, and useful. The more a product is developed and used, and feedback is provided, the backlog becomes better defined, including product features, …
Several timeboxed events must be carried out when following Scrum, failure to carry out the event is a failure to adhere to Scrum. The Sprint The Sprint itself is an event, timeboxed to a maximum of one month, that is a container for all other events. Within the Sprint, there are the following Scrum events: …
Scrum Team Composition The Scrum Team is a self-organising and cross-functional group made up of: A Product Owner. A Scrum Master. The Development Team. Self-Organising Teams A self-organising team chooses internally how best to accomplish their work, instead of being directed by anyone outside of the team. Cross-Functional Teams To be sufficiently cross-functional, the team …
Definition Scrum is a lightweight process framework for developing, delivering, and sustaining complex products. The framework has been used to help manage complex knowledge work since the early 1990s, with the aim of delivering products of the highest possible value through a creative and productive manner of working. The image above shows the workflow in …
Introduction The default buffer size for sending data over WebSockets with SignalR is 64kB (65536 bytes), once exceeded, SignalR will fail to handle incoming data and the hub method will not trigger. The method for increasing the max message size is not obvious and difficult to find, particularly for the .NET Framework version of SignalR. …
Introduction Firstly, Covid-19 is no joke, prioritise the health of yourself and your family. If you could benefit from resting, don’t force yourself to work. If, however, your health is not an issue and you are simply looking for a better way to spend your time while in lockdown or self-isolation rather than binge-watching Netflix …
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