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Project management methodologies for multiple projects, small teams, diverse skills, partially remote team
I have been reading a lot on Scrum to evaluate its use in our company. I've done a few trials runs with it where the teams were exploring different aspects of it to get some real world feel. I'm not sure though that Scrum is our best option.
I…
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How to make Release Planning more accurate?
I had an interview with one company. They use Scrum, but don’t like rough estimates during Release Planning. So, they asked me, how to make Release Planning more accurate (they don’t want more than 30 percent of deviations from the plan).
I…
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what should be part of Sprint 0?
This is our first Agile project and we plan our Sprint 0 to consist of :
Release Content Planning : Defining EPICs/MMFs Product Backlog
Product Backlog Grooming : Breakup of EPICs into stories (as much as
possible at that point of time)
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Cost Estimates for agile projects
For Fixed Bid projects , the approach in our company is :
The estimation is done for every user story in story points, and team
has to convert those story points into hours.
Once we find out the hours estimate, then we can arrive at the cost
of the…
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Estimation given in days and need to plan in Agile
The client internally feels that this is about 500 developer days worth of work and there could potentially be 4 developers (or pairs of developers) that work in parallel. We need to go back to them with a proposal work in agile. Later on if new…
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Why do Agile practice not exist in scientific research projects and organizations?
This has already been asked (How can a team working on research based items work in an Agile project?), but the thread is from 2011, so I thought I'd poke for an update.
Does anyone know of a good process for managing research projects or a whole…
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How to Organise Help Desk?
I have to organize the help desk. I have some thoughts and ideas.
The project for which I have to do is a Web application. It has 5 servers
in different time zones.
We have something about 25 instances of our Web application and 8 entry points. The…
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How to track impediments in SCRUM?
This has been asked several times already but none of the answers fully convince me.
We are an R&D team doing some support from time to time. Most of the support work can be included in capacity of the team so that the Focus Factor can be set…
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What department does a scrum master ideally belong to?
I'm the scrum master in my company (200+ people, several departments) and recently the head of product became my line manager. While this came rather surprising for me and feels kind of wrong, since he's pushing his own agenda into the process quite…
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Can you add a person to watch a JIRA issue?
In some cases, I'd like to let a teammate watch an issue, and be informed of whatever is going on about that issue, even though the issue is not assigned to him/her.
Is it possible to add a person to watch an exising issue, without assigning the…
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Agile Best Practice for External Blocking Issue
Our company is trying to adopt a more rigorous Agile methodology (including Sprints and Scrums and all that fun stuff. We even got a JIRA subscription!), and we've run into a couple issues.
The biggest one (to me, anyway, as I am frequently…
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What are typical career paths for PMs as they gain in experience and become more senior?
As Project Managers become more senior, what are the typical career paths (beyond just taking on larger and more complex projects)?
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Agile in enterprise: How to represent the requirements of non-business stakeholders?
I currently work on a large scale software project in a large company.
We follow an agile approach for development; however, due to the size of the the company there are several stakeholders that normally are not spoken about or simply assumed to be…
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Everyone wants to talk, but no one listens
I have met more than one time a situation where everyone wants to talk, but no one wants to listen. For example:
Our team discusses where to go in our next team building trip.
Our team discusses a strategy for our next football match, and suddenly…
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An Epic within an Epic
First off, I believe I have a good understanding of User Story Hierarchy (Epic > Story > Task), but I've had a quick search around and I wasn't able to find a definitive answer to this.
Can you theoretically have an Epic within an Epic. For example,…
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