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How do you address the fear of control loss from Agile adoption

According to this survey, the most common concern about Agile adoption is a loss of management control. What are the different arguments one can bring to address this specific concern? How do you help the management trust Agile process and give up…
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How to Introduce Uncertainty without Scaring a Customer?

Recognizing uncertainty is fundamental to an Agile mindset. When leading the transition to a more agile mindset, how do you tell your customer that you, as a development team, generally operate in a world of uncertainty, when they have always looked…
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Why is the middle ground between functional and matrix organizations so common?

I'm a software developer, and most companies I've worked for are organized in a system that is a middle ground between functional and matrix. Much more functional than matrix, indeed. The structure is something like this: there are several teams in…
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Working with team members

We are a team of 5 guys. I am newest one among the team and a starter (been with them for about a year already) I have two issues here: Whenever I try to voice my ideas/opinions during meetings they are abandoned/ignored. The team is dominated two…
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Project charter diagrams

What diagrams should be included in a project charter? In our standard template there is a section for "Implementation approach and methodology", this is where the flow diagrams normally are. The project is mainly front end styling related so it…
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How can I make company-wide scheduling and resource allocation decisions?

I've recently been taken on in a Programme Management role for a software company. There are several definitions of Programme / Program Manager out there - my role encompasses, amongst other things: Managing scheduling across the company's…
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During pre-planning developers do not have time to understand a task they have not investigated themselves, how to address their concerns?

We are a facing an issue where some of our team members are not happy with the pre-planning/planning phase of our scrum sprints. Their concerns are, that during pre-planning developers do not have too much time to understand a task that have not…
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Communicating weekly goals amid uncertainty

If a project's inherent uncertainty prevents accurate planning or resourcing of task effort more than a month into the future, how can project managers best communicate, coordinate, and track employees' progress on a weekly basis without this…
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Showing the benefit of Product Goals and Sprint Goals?

I have 2 questions. If we are using Scrum, is it really Scrum if a Product Goal and a Sprint Goal does not exist? My current situation is that I inherited a project with no project charter or product canvas. Neither exists. I brought up that I…
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QA is at capacity, Development has room

Let's say you have five developers and one QA tester. All 5 developers can commit to X number of user stories. In Planning, QA decides he'll need Y number of hours per story to test. What is the protocol or best practice when QA is has reached their…
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What are some good options for Project Management for a development team of 14 who generally work 1 team member to a project?

We are currently implementing Team Foundation Server as our source control, and this has lead to more research into project management, as it offers many features in that arena. We currently believe Sharepoint Foundation Server is too cumbersome…
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How can I improve my management skills in preparation for a potential career shift from programmer to manager?

I’m a long time programmer (15 years), who likes his work, but I see that a lot of people have changed their career after few years and moved to management. I never liked management, and most of all I think I don’t have any skill at all to be a…
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Scrum daily - Ask the 3 questions per developer or go by tickets?

We are a small team of around 5 developers. We're using a ticketmanagement-system that has a virtual Scrumboard. On the Scrumboard are several columns. The items on the columns are sorted by priority: New | Consultation | Working | Waiting | Test &…
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Kanban - Move card from In Progress state to Backlog (moving cards backwards)

We have had situations where work has been started on an item and then work needs to be stopped for some reason. I am interested in hearing opinions for moving these items back into the backlog or if we shouldn't move them back into the backlog…
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Interviewing business analyst

There is a small company working on a software projects - mainly medium-sized integration project for big clients from financial industry. There is a PM, a few developers, a couple of quality engineers, a system administrator, but they're looking…
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