Poll: Litmus Test Questions for Pretty Good Agile Development

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Peter @ Scrum Breakfast has created this poll.

"The Nokia test is a quick litmus test which helps determine whether you meet the basic requirements of doing Scrum. The "Joel Test" focuses more on engineering issues, but is a bit dated.

Below is a collection of question based on the original Joel tests, various attempts to update it and the 7 Crystal properties. Excluded are questions covered by the Nokia test.

Which of these questions belong in a modern, agile "Joel" Test?

Please vote for 10 or 12 of your favorites!"

Peter

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Rich

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Source Code: Do you use source control?	Build: Can you build in a single step?	Daily Build: Do you make daily builds?	Bug DB: Do you have a bug database?	Fixing: Do you fix bugs before writing new code?	Sched: Do you have an up-to-date schedule?	Spec: Do you have a spec?	Quiet: Do programmers have quiet working conditions?	Tools: Do you use the best tools money can buy?	Testers: Do you have testers?	Intervew: Do new candidates write code during their interview?	Hallway: Do you do hallway usability testing?	Wiki: Do you use a Wiki?	Continuous: Do you do continuous build / test / deploy?	TDDev: Do your tests drive your development?	Pair: Do your developers pair and support each other?	Talk: Does everyone talk to each other, constantly?	Hiring: Does the team select its new members?	Colocated: Is the team colocated?	Testing: Can you test in a single step?	Releases: Have you delivered running, tested, usable functionality to users at least twice in the last six months?	Deploy: Can you deploy in a single step?	Integration: Do you integrate the system at least twice per week`	News: Can you give your boss bad news?	Access: Does it take less than three days from when you have a question to when an expert answers it?	Improvement: Did you get together within the last three months to discuss and improve your group’s working habits?	Retrospective: Does you team conduct a retrospective after every iteration?	User Stories: Do you define the product in terms of user stories?	Acceptence: Do you define acceptence tests before you write code?
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Source Code: Do you use source control?	Build: Can you build in a single step?	Daily Build: Do you make daily builds?	Bug DB: Do you have a bug database?	Fixing: Do you fix bugs before writing new code?	Sched: Do you have an up-to-date schedule?	Spec: Do you have a spec?	Quiet: Do programmers have quiet working conditions?	Tools: Do you use the best tools money can buy?	Testers: Do you have testers?	Intervew: Do new candidates write code during their interview?	Hallway: Do you do hallway usability testing?	Wiki: Do you use a Wiki?	Continuous: Do you do continuous build / test / deploy?	TDDev: Do your tests drive your development?	Pair: Do your developers pair and support each other?	Talk: Does everyone talk to each other, constantly?	Hiring: Does the team select its new members?	Colocated: Is the team colocated?	Testing: Can you test in a single step?	Releases: Have you delivered running, tested, usable functionality to users at least twice in the last six months?	Deploy: Can you deploy in a single step?	Integration: Do you integrate the system at least twice per week`	News: Can you give your boss bad news?	Access: Does it take less than three days from when you have a question to when an expert answers it?	Improvement: Did you get together within the last three months to discuss and improve your group’s working habits?	Retrospective: Does you team conduct a retrospective after every iteration?	User Stories: Do you define the product in terms of user stories?	Acceptence: Do you define acceptence tests before you write code?
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