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What tools and techniques should be introduced first when starting with Agile/Scrum?

I am working as project manager on a large project with a five person development team. They have been without project management support for several months and there is no project management methodology in place (though build processes - CI etc. -…
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Using Spreadsheet for Backlog - Dependencies and Priority

I'm currently using a Google Spreadsheet to manage my product backlog. It has a list of stories, each with an identifier, feature it belongs to, story points, and the sprint that it's assigned to. It works well for most of my small projects; I…
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How do you manage a team of developers when their preferred working hours vary?

I recently read a question on here about - How to balance Teamwork and Babble? - and David Espina's answer pointed out that despite developers being contracted as 100% FTE (full-time equivalents), in reality they only deliver between 45% and…
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How to estimate a project involving unfamiliar skillsets

We are trying to generate an initial estimate to see if a project is viable. The problem is that the project involves configuring and customising an open source product that the development team have no experience with. In fact the customer…
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What Should a Project Manager Do If Development is Not Completed On Time?

I am a project manager of a development team. Oftentimes, the deadline for the development project is not met. About my team: I have 4 people in my team, and they are older than me. Sometimes I feel uncomfortable instructing them because they are…
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Gathering feedback on performance as a Scrum Master

As a ScrumMaster, what techniques would you recommend to gather feedback from the Team Members? What criteria should the Team Members, the Product Owner and, other stakeholders take into account in order to assess the performance of the ScrumMaster?
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Should I work with another manager or take on his responsibilities?

A manager of equal level in the org chart is in charge of a team that is responsible for a critical delivery piece in one of my projects. He generally assigns his team deadlines that have no room for error. This creates anxiety in my team and for…
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What should we do with a task that has been blocked

We're using Agile and Scrum methodology. For this iteration a coworker had to finish her Development task, which was carried over from last iteration. We thought it will be done in two days and we can start black box testing on it. So we had two…
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Why does the WIP limit for a kanban discipline apply to completed work?

In kanban, there is a hard work-in-progress limit that stops a discipline working on too much at once. In this example kanban board, the WIP limit includes work listed in the "done" column. Why, for example, can the analysis discipline, which has…
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As a development manager, what are your first steps joining a new company?

I've recently been offered my first position as a development manager. I would be taking over a team of 4 at a small software development shop with the mission of creating structure, and improving efficiency/process. I'm seriously considering the…
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How to deal with difficult people?

One of my colleagues constantly faces the following problem: We have a team consisting of programmers that are always working on one project or the other. Now there are times when we have to work with cross functional teams to get some data (data…
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With Scrum, how do you keep from dropping the little things?

We've moved our group's workflow to a scrum-based approach, with a lot of success. We're getting things done, people are more engaged, and we're more focused on our actual user community's needs. Because we needed to work on processes over tools,…
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How to Virtually Co-Locate: Operating across two offices

Apologies if this is the incorrect exchange to post this on but none of the others seemed appropriate. We are currently investigating the possibility of opening a second office. We are a web development house. Currently we are 5 full time employees.…
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Team Building Exercises

I'm looking for some good team building exercises for a small (7 people) software development team. We are just in the forming stage of our group and looking to bond a bit more. It doesn't have to be related to the project mission or vision…
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Is Agile Lean? Or are Agile and Lean totally separate philosophies?

Can I say Agile is "not" Lean and both Agile and Lean are totally different concepts or philosophies? If I take lean principles: "Self Organization" "Kaizen or Cont. Improvement" "Quality Assurance" "Pokayoke or Fail Proof" "Mudha or Waste…
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