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Polarion goes Scrum – 2011 (Part 2)

By Nick Entin, VP R&D, Polarion Software
In the first article in this series, I talked about the reasons that led Polarion’s R&D team to adopt Scrum to manage the development of Polarion soft…


Polarion Goes Scrum – 2011 (Part 1)

By Nick Entin, VP R&D, Polarion Software

In this series of 6 articles (I’m still working on it!) I’ll share with you how our team works with Scrum and how we have configured Polarion ALM to supp…


Polarion Performance & Scalability

Introduction
This document will describe the critical performance factors of the Polarion platform, scalability pitfalls and limitations, and recommendations related to capacity-planning your produc…


Polarion Performance & Scalability

Introduction
This document will describe the critical performance factors of the Polarion platform, scalability pitfalls and limitations, and recommendations related to capacity-planning your produc…


MS Office Word Importer for Polarion – how to

Introduction

Objective and Target User
How this works
Prerequisites

Preparation

Download the MS Word Importer extension
Install Java on the machine that runs Importer
Prepa…


Polarion goes Scrum (part 6)

by Nick Entin
Sprint Development
During a sprint, the development team continuously integrates all changes, and updated versions of the product are installed on the internal servers daily to prove…


Polarion goes Scrum (Part 5)

Sprint Meetings
Meetings are possibly the most important assets of Scrum. As described in previous chapters, Scrum allows us to identify problems and help find ways resolve them. Meetings are the e…


Polarion goes Scrum (Part 4)

Product Backlog
by Nick Entin, VP Research & Development, Certified ScrumMaster

Typically Product Owner would write Excel or Word document with his items and then simply reshuffles them accordi…


Polarion goes Scrum (Part 3)

Polarion ALM in Scrum process: Configuration, Work Item types, attributes, links
by Nick Entin, VP Research & Development, Certified ScrumMaster

This and further sections of the document assume…