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What's a good way to do requirements management in Jira?
My team gets a pretty big corpus of requirement documents before each product... and by "pretty big" I mean roughly a hundred documents with 20-200 requirements a piece.
We're moving to Jira for work/bug/sprint tracking (Agile team) and would like…
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Which KPI should I use to measure performance of software developer?
I would like to measure performance of my developers using KPI (Key Performance Indicators). Which KPI would best help me distinguish between good and "needs improvement" programmers?
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Can (and should) Agile be used for Infrastructure projects?
Is it possible to use agile methods for large IT infrastructure projects?
I am working on a large project where the development team uses agile methods, while the infrastructure (which is where I am involved) is being established using waterfall…
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Kanban and feature size
We are currently using Scrum within our organisation but are considering moving to Kanban (or Scrumban).
As part of our Scrum process we normally take into consideration size and complexity of features by assigning appropriate story points. I've…
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Motivating younger (Generation Y) members
I realize many articles have been written about generational differences in the workforce, but I'd like to know specific things you've done to help motivate younger team members.
I belong to "Generation X" where it's just natural to work as hard as…
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Estimating when the development team won't estimate
I'm new to a situation where a development team refuse to estimate anything until they have a fully defined spec. My angle to obtain estimates is to provide just enough of a spec so they can provide an estimate that has a degree of confidence behind…
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How to cope with a client expecting compensation for mistake your team made?
Our team made a mistake in software code and that caused the customer lose a lot of money. Now they ask us for that amount to give them back as compensation.
How to deal with that?
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What's the best way to prepare for PMP Certification?
I am ready to start preparation for the PMP and wanted to get your opinion on the resources you've used (outside of the PMBOK to prepare).
I am really interested in a self paced online course, and one or two books.
The books seem fairly straight…
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In Scrum, do we really let people self-organize around their work?
This is what Scrum Guide says about the members of Scrum Team:
They are also self-managing, meaning they internally decide who does what, when, and how.
But we all know that very often if we would let the team members decide who does what, when,…
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What to do when management prohibits test swarming by development team?
I'm a product owner on a 10 people Scrum team (too big of a team already) and last week Management came to us stating that developers can no longer participate in testing from the next sprint on, and that they need to focus on development activities…
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Professional PM skills without classes?
How possible is it to learn the skills of project management without actually taking any classes on it? I'm definitely up for pouring through books and applying what I learn to my own projects so I can manage them and learn through experience, but…
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Manager no longer invited to the retrospectives
A colleague of mine is a working manager on a software development team. The scrum master has uninvited him permanently from the retrospectives. (So far for 3 sprints running.)
From my Scrum experience and training, this appears to be bad practice.…
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What's difference between "depends on" and "is blocked by" relations between issues in Jira next-gen board?
In Jira, (probably) in next-gen board, when specifying relationship between two issues, I have the following choices:
-- i.e. specifically "[A] depends on [B]" and "[A] is blocked by [B]".
What is the difference? Does "is blocked by" imply some…
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What is the relation between PMBOK and real world Project Management?
While I was studying for my PMP certification I learned many things that over my course of 10 years I was doing differently. Now after being a PMP for a year, I see how you can get value from the knowledge on the PMI framework.
What I still don't…
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How to deal with hotfixes keeping the scrum methodology
My team works with scrum methodology.
However, during some sprints we have hotfixes that have to be developed as soon as possible, so we treat them in the current sprint, and consequently we have an impact on the sprint goal in which we are…
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