Introduction to Scrum - An Agile Process Scrum is an agile way to manage a project, usually software development. Agile software development with Scrum is often perceived as a methodology; but rather than viewing Scrum as methodology, think of it as a framework for managing a process. In the agile Scrum world, instead of providing complete, detailed descriptions of how everything is to be done on a project, much of it is left up to the Scrum software development team. This is because the team will know best how to solve the problem they are presented. This is why in Scrum development, for example, a sprint planning meeting is described in terms of the desired outcome (a commitment to a set of features to be developed in the next sprint) instead of a set of Entry criteria, Task definitions, Validation criteria, Exit criteria (ETVX) and so on, as would be provided in most methodologies. Scrum relies on a self-organizing, cross-functional team. Within agile development, Scrum teams are supported by two specific roles.
Semantic Versioning 2.0.0-rc.1 Welcome! JPA Tutorial Java persistent API is a specification and set of interfaces that helps with persistence of java objects into the database. It has been created after success of object relational mapping frameworks - the most popular is Hibernate. JPA defines standard basic set of features that every object relational mapping framework should have. Almost all current O/R frameworks implement JPA specification. Of course, most of them have additional features to set them apart. Saving/loading data with JPA is easier, faster and less error prone than writing SQL and mapping query results to objects. First three chapters of this post contain configuration and set up. Table of Contents Demo Project All examples and test cases used in this tutorial are available in a project on Github. The project uses an in-memory Derby database which is created before each test case and destroyed after each test case. Other set-up details are not necessary to understand. JPA Implementation Dependency Plugin Eclipse Configuration
Online burndown chart generator Serving burndown charts since 2007 There was a problem processing your request. This page can be used to generate burndown chart like this and burnup charts like this Copy the image URL to see how the charts are generated. To get the resulting chart embedded into a MediaWiki page, make sure that embedded display of external images is enabled on your MediaWiki installation and that the URL ends in .png. The Puf Principle: Online burndown chart generator One of the aspects of Scrum is its focus on transparency - getting all information out in the open. And one of the areas that enables the transparency is the burndown chart. It's a public posting of the progress of the team throughout its current sprint. On the horizontal axis you see the days of this sprint. The vertical axis describes the amount of work. At the top of the vertical axis is the number of "ideal man hours" we committed to for this sprint. As a Scrum master I like to post this information as publicly as I can. In the first sprints I did this by taking a photograph of the burndown chart every morning, right after updating it. So this time around we went searching for a simple tool that would lower the threshold of updating the burndown chart on our wiki. In the end I just gave up and wrote a simple web page that -when fed with the right parameters- will return a PNG image of the burndown chart. burndown.jsp? The generated chart is really simple and not very pretty.
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Scrum (development) Scrum is an iterative and incremental agile software development framework for managing product development. It defines "a flexible, holistic product development strategy where a development team works as a unit to reach a common goal", challenges assumptions of the "traditional, sequential approach" to product development, and enables teams to self-organize by encouraging physical co-location or close online collaboration of all team members, as well as daily face-to-face communication among all team members and disciplines in the project. A key principle of Scrum is its recognition that during a project the customers can change their minds about what they want and need (often called "requirements churn"), and that unpredicted challenges cannot be easily addressed in a traditional predictive or planned manner. Later, Schwaber with others founded the Scrum Alliance and created the Certified Scrum Master programs and its derivatives. Each sprint is started by a planning meeting.