Agile Experiment PDF-Import 2007
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A loose gathering of resources and ideas about the Agile Experiment in developing PDF-Import in 2007.
Organization
Time Frame
From 5.11.2007: 4-6 weeks
Possible Iterations:
- 8.11. - 21.11.
- 22.11. - 5.12.
- 6.12. - 19.12.
Practices to Adopt
Suggestions
- Scrum roles (Product Owner, Team, Scrum master)
- Colocation
- Team that includes definition, code-writing and testing together
- Time Boxing
- Continuous testing
- Short, fixed-time iterations
- Daily (or more frequent) integration + builds
- "Scope" is variable <=> "time", "cost" and "quality" are fix.
- Regular reflection
Agile Methodolgy in General
Agile Manifesto
English descriptions
- Lots of short, precise, useful information
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agile_software_development
- http://www.think-box.co.uk/pdf/scrum/IntroductionToScrum.pdf
German descriptions (as most team members are german, these may be useful)
- http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scrum
- http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extreme_Programming
- http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crystal_Family
Planning
Product Backlog
- (Link to the Product Backlog page for this project) -
Example and description of a Product Backlog
Hints for the Product Backlog Maintainer
Characteristics of User Stories
User stories shall be "INVESTed":
- independent
- negotiable
- valuable
- estimable
- small
- testable
Iteration Backlogs
(Link to the Iteration Backlog pages)