Agile team: The Development Maturity

تیم چابک: بلوغ توسعه

When teams first start agile development, little has changed, other than perhaps more meetings on the schedule. They may still operate separately or limit their interactions with customers. You might see the work break down into waterfall kind of tasks, then design user stories, then build stories, then test stories. Therefore, the “Agile Teams” are agile in form when they just walk around without understanding or accepting agile principles and values. Teams become agile when they think and act in line with agile values and principles.

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What is a Sprint in Scrum?

اسپرینت در اسکرام چیست؟

Sprint is one timeboxed iteration of a continuous development cycle. Within a Sprint, planned amount of work has to be completed by the team and made ready for review. Scrum projects are broken down into small and consistent time intervals referred to as sprints. They can be as short as a few days and generally are no longer than 3–4 weeks.

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Cross-functional vs Self-organizing vs Feature vs Component Teams in Agile

تیم‌های چندوظیفه‌ای در مقابل تیم‌های خودسازمان‌دهنده در مقابل تیم‌های ویژگی در مقابل تیم‌های مؤلفه در چابک

“A Cross-functional teams have all competencies needed to accomplish the work without depending on others not part of the team” — Scrum Guide. In contrast to the component team approach, a cross-functional teams are groups consisting of people from different functional areas of the company. — it should be formed not only with technical specialists (Back-end, Front-end developers, QA engineers, etc.) but also consists of members like Business Analysts, Marketing and UX specialists or anyone else taking an active part in the project.

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The 20 most frequently mentioned rules and guidelines in Scrum

20 قانون و راهنمایی که در اسکرام بیشتر ذکر شده‌اند

The Scrum framework consists of Scrum Teams and their associated roles, events, artifacts, and rules. Each component within the framework serves a specific purpose and is essential to Scrum’s success and usage. The rules of Scrum bind together the roles, events, and artifacts, governing the relationships and interaction between them as shown in the Figure below:

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Agile Estimation: Relative estimates vs Absolute estimates

برآورد چابک: برآوردهای نسبی در مقابل برآوردهای مطلق

Whether a team is developing a product or a project, we need to answer the question “When will we be able to finish it?” , or how far we will be able to go at a certain point in time, so as with traditional development models, we need to estimate the workload before we start the project. Agile estimation is the process of estimating the effort required to complete a priority task in the product backlog. This effort is usually measured in terms of the time required to complete that task, which in turn leads to accurate sprint planning.

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