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How should I handle an argumentative team member?
I have a developer on my team who is otherwise very productive but is getting more and more argumentative and disrespectful to the team and to the project managers. For some reason (possibly culturally as she's from another country) she takes any…
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How to resolve leadership conflicts in project?
How to resolve conflicts in project when:
No roles are clearly defined (eg. no project charter).
Project manager is sluggish / incompetent.
Technical people feel like more competent than PM.
Bit of explanation:
This results in personal conflicts…
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How to choose, motivate & develop a newbie programmer?
Imagine that you need to hire new programmer, however you are 100% sure that there are not experienced (what you need) developers on the local market and you need to work with newbies. A couple of months ago we hired such developer with the clause…
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What to do if team can't be made cross-functional?
I work in a small video game development studio, where the whole company is one team working on one product, and each person has a fixed broad function (e.g. programmer, artist, musician). We can't be cross-functional since the range of functions is…
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How do you kick-off new Agile teams?
I'm curious what others are doing with regard to getting teams up and running with Agile in a sustainable way. What do you emphasize first (practices, principle, process framework)? Or is there no one approach for kicking off teams?
EDIT: I guess I…
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Being pressured into doing a Gantt chart
Currently in a proxy product owner/Scrum master role, I do my planning in the following way:
Weekly
Retrospectives at the end of the week, sprint review on Mondays (with the stakeholder) followed by a Sprint planning meeting.
My boss the product…
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Is the Product Owner allowed to be at the Daily Scrum event?
Throughout the Scrum Open Assessments there often appears a question about who must attend to the Daily Scrum event. This is always correctly answered by saying that only the Development Team is required to participate.
Now the Scrum Guide says the…
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How do you measure risk?
As a related question to: What's the best definition and explanation of project risk?
What is the most useful way of measuring risk? I've been thought it's best to measure it in additional monetary cost to project budget. By writing down all 'risk…
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Number of people in a team that need to communicate with the client?
Is it more useful that all the people in a team to communicate with the client or should there be one person - i.e. the project manager that does all the communication and then informs the other members of the team?
Because we have a client, that…
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In kanban, what should we do about routine work in each day?
For example, task like filter the bug's report from customer to create a new backlog to be discuss later on Kanban board which should be done everyday. Should I create the new card everyday like "customer support & information xx/xx/xx" or it…
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Should a burndown chart be based on stories or tasks completed?
TL;DR; As the title reads: do you base your burndown chart on stories completed, or on tasks completed?
Some background on why I'm asking this:
I currently work in a software development team of 4 developers, doing sprints that last 2 weeks. In…
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Should I remove a User Story from a Sprint in progress if I know we can't complete it?
In the sprint can we remove (move to the upcoming sprint) the planned stories (mid sprint), if we are 100% sure we can’t complete them?
Example given:
Suppose we planned to 5 stories to be completed in an sprint.
Midway the sprint we are sure one…
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Should Daily Scrum meetings be held in the morning or the afternoon?
I was used to morning Daily scrum meetings (after 30/60 mins of work), but currently we are conducting meetings after 6 hours of work. I think this approach has the advantage of focusing on the problems the team members have encountered when they…
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Who pays for learning curve?
Should a client be billed for a certain amount of the learning curve? Should an employer pick up the tab on overhead? Should it be the developer themselves? Or perhaps a combination of all three?
I am conflicted on this - I've heard it being said…
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How do you share lessons learned from a post-mortem?
Running a project post-mortem (or post-implementation review) is a valuable way to identify and document lessons learned from the project.
After doing so, how to best share (and act upon) those lessons learned with an organization as a whole? It is…
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