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Scrum by Example – The Story of an Incomplete Sprint

Agile Pain Relief Notes from a Tool User

Tonia (Quality Assurance specialist), spends the first few days working with Brad (Business Analyst). When helping people with estimation, I offer a guideline to help calibrate: for a size ‘2,’ or small story, the Team should select something that they believe represents 1/5th to 1/10th of the whole Team’s capacity to do work.

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Scrum by Example – The Story of an Incomplete Sprint

Agile Pain Relief Notes from a Tool User

A Scrum Sprint is incomplete when the Team can’t deliver the working features they committed to. Tonia – the Team’s Quality Assurance specialist. Tonia (Quality Assurance specialist), spends the first few days working with Brad (Business Analyst). We cover the reasons for this and how you can help your Team.

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AgileQA: QA Framework for Agile Methodology

Exadel

Scrum, Kanban, and Scrumban are commonly used Agile methodologies that have their own guidelines and frameworks. In this article, we’ll take a closer look at Agile testing, compare it to standard Quality Assurance Practices , and provide several tips on how to incorporate Agile principles in your testing process.

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Outsourcing Software Development Checklist to Ensure Success

RapidValue

Usually, the requirements undergo changes, especially when following a Scrum Agile methodology. Does the external development team have the right mix of resources between Product Owner, Scrum Masters, Developers and Testers? What are their reporting guidelines and escalation matrix for deliverable and performance?

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Why QA Testing Theory is Important

Exadel

Regardless of industry, success is defined by the quality of services and products. Quality assurance is an extremely important part of the software development process, and QA engineers play a key role in working towards perfection. He who loves practice without theory. is like the sailor who boards a ship without a rudder.

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SAFe certification: launch your Scaled Agile Framework career

CIO

SAFe Agilist The SAFe Agilist certification works best for a program or project manager , Scrum master , team lead, release train engineer, change agent, or others who are part of a Lean transformation. The 45-question exam tests candidates’ ability to: Facilitate Scrum events. Support PI execution.

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What is and How is PreQA done in Agile?

MagmaLabs

We are working with about 20 members of the team, including 14 developers, 3 Project Managers, 1 Scrum Master, and 2 QA testers. We believed we were an “Agile” team, but we were not actually putting into practice any of the processes and guidelines that this suggests.

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