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Our Sprint Retrospective

Posted on February 9, 2017 by Valerie Andrianova

You’ve made it to our last episode in the How We Scrum series. In this installment, I’ll walk you through our sprint retrospective. To catch up on older posts in this series, check out the Introduction, Our Scrum Roles, Our … Continue reading →

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Our Sprint Demo Session

Posted on February 7, 2017 by Valerie Andrianova

In this, our seventh episode, I’ll give you a backstage pass to our sprint demo. Previous posts in our How We Scrum series include an Introduction, Our Scrum Roles, Our Backlog, Our Approach to Estimation, Our Sprint Planning, and The … Continue reading →

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The Sprint

Posted on February 2, 2017 by Valerie Andrianova

The sixth installment of How We Scrum shows you how we execute a sprint. Previously in this series, we published an Introduction, Our Scrum Roles, Our Backlog, Our Approach to Estimation, and Our Sprint Planning. Our Scrum Board When the … Continue reading →

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Our Sprint Planning

Posted on January 31, 2017 by Valerie Andrianova

This is the fifth episode in our How We Scrum series. This installment is devoted to our sprint planning. If you missed any of the previous posts, check out the Introduction, Our Scrum Roles, Our Backlog, and Our Approach to … Continue reading →

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Our Approach to Estimation

Posted on January 26, 2017 by Valerie Andrianova

Previous installments in the How We Scrum series include the Introduction, Our Scrum Roles, and Our Backlog. The fourth post is devoted to our approach to estimation. Last year, we introduced the #NoEstimates approach to our Scrum process. Instead of using … Continue reading →

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Our Product Backlog

Posted on January 24, 2017 by Valerie Andrianova

Previously we published the Introduction and Our Scrum Roles installments from the How We Scrum series. This post is the third in the series and is devoted to our product backlog. In our case, the product backlog is a set of … Continue reading →

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Our Scrum Roles

Posted on January 19, 2017 by Valerie Andrianova

In the previous post, I outlined the steps we took to implement a Scrum methodology in the  YouTrack team. The first step in our Scrum transformation was to define who would take on each of the core roles. Product Owner … Continue reading →

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How we Scrum in YouTrack Team

Posted on January 17, 2017 by Valerie Andrianova

Introduction The YouTrack team has been practicing Scrum for several years. We decided to switch to Scrum six years ago, when we started to develop an agile board in YouTrack. Since dogfooding is a core concept at JetBrains, we decided … Continue reading →

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