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Can we add more user stories to the Sprint Backlog if the requirements change during a sprint?
We are currently working on a project where we receive a lot of change requests, and the client insists that we should deliver the changes in the current sprint!
Can I add the new work to the sprint backlog as a new task? Sometimes the tasks' effort…
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How do you create innovation on your projects?
With most projects focused on meeting requirements within specific constraints, how do you create innovative solutions on a project?
From a portfolio management approach, how do you encourage innovative projects and get them funded?
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how to handle multiple project managers?
I am a team leader.
My team handles multiple projects. Each has a different project manager.
Our priorities keep changing according to deals the company is about to close.
The project managers are not synchronized and whenever I talk to one PM I…
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What software can I use to complememt our useless company task planning and time tracker tool?
We have Remedy-based software that is used for task planning and time tracking. No real project management features are supported, but we need to use it because our budgets are calculated using the software.
I would like to introduce an effective…
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Open Source Project Management Software
There are many users here who might be using one project management software or the other. Some may be using paid or some stick with opensource.
Paid are good and have good set of features. But whats interesting is the growing breed of open source…
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What are the definitions and distinctions between Project x Program x Portfolio x Product Managers?
What are the definitions, distinctions and relationship between the following roles?
Project lead
Project Coordinator
Project Manager
Program Manager
Portfolio Manager
Product Manager (optional)
Business-analyst (optional)
Team lead…
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What to do in a WBS when a deliverable is required in two bigger deliverables?
This question is best described through an example. Imagine you're doing a project to promote a product. You have two equally important deliverables:
Street Advertisement
Social Websites Advertisement
In order to complete those, you need (among…
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How to improve and facilitate prioritization of bug fixes?
In a long-term software project with frequent releases, end-users regularly report bugs and defects in the product. When the reported bug is highly critical, the fix is generally developed and released right away. Otherwise the bug is recorded into…
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How should we implement items from Sprint Retrospectives?
Every two weeks we have our Scrum retrospective meeting and everything seems to be great, because we are getting lots of ideas. However, the problem is that these ideas are almost never actually implemented.
I was pushing hard to place all these…
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Agile/scrum - tracking time spent in current iteration towards stories from the next iteration if all current stories are done
Our team has been slowly trying to go towards agile, and like many other teams, up to this point, the question of "what do we do when we actually finish all commitments?" is fairly new and foreign to us. But lately it actually came up once or…
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How to split developers/QA into smaller teams?
Our web development company has grown from five to twenty people over a year. We do 2-4 month projects, and usually team size is 2 devs, 1 QA, 1 BA/PM/Scrum master. Our development methodology is Scrum/Agile.
Currently everyone reports to CTO, which…
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How should we plan work on support issues without a "battery"?
We are working on a very old project with a lot of legacy code. This means that we have around 3-5 unplanned issues every Sprint.
We were handling that with "batteries": time set aside for unscheduled issues each Sprint. But I recently read an…
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What is the best way to divide a development team?
I lead a medium sized team of developers whose skill, age & time in the company vary for quite a bit. Some of the youngest in the team are considered profficient while some of the most seniors (age-wise) are outranked by a large part of the team.…
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Accuracy of Estimates
Aclear16, on an answer from another question, brought up the notion of accuracy of estimates. In my view, this notion is nonsensical; however, we talk about this often in PM circles.
In an estimating training class I taught, I wanted to…
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How to balance Teamwork and Babble?
I have sensed conflict in an organization, which works like this:
They want to encourage teamwork and good personal relationships
They want discuss work-related personal matters and design decisions at work
When discussions take very long, the…
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