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How should we deal with interdependent tasks in Scrum?
When talking about blockers on the Scrum board, I realized that we might have interdependent tasks. For example, database design is dependent on some activities in UX flow. Or maybe there is a later realization that one module requires some other…
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The development teams can't deliver successful sprints
We have 2 (50% distributed) scrum teams, that have been doing scrum for just over a year.
Since almost the whole time, the teams' painful point is environments instability, from all perspectives: smoke tests failing and need to be looked at, things…
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Resources for Scrum
I'm looking for resources for Scrum. Online resources would be particulary suited, but I'm ready to consider books. There is much material available, and I have to say it's hard to choose the good ones. Can you help?
I'm not only looking for…
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Estimate Item Delivery from Throughput plus blockers
We are combining all of our projects into one Kanban board. Since we are only ever one team, it seems to make the most sense to combine everything to one board and prioritize as we can all only work on one thing at a time.
Is there a good tool or…
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Should I trade points when adding a new story mid sprint?
Suppose a task shows up mid sprint that is high priority. It must go into the current sprint and take top priority.
Suppose the task is estimated by the development team to be a 3 point task.
When adding this task to the current sprint should an…
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How to deal with the situation that some people's work is not fulfilled during a sprint?
We are game developers and just began our Scrum practice. We found something like this:
During a sprint, we have several user stories to complete, but some of our members' work is not fulfilled. At the same time, someone may work overtime to…
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Should the customer be informed about an overall project risk score?
One of the outputs from Qualitative Risk Analysis is project Risk Score, which is an indicator of project success probability. This indicator explicitly tells a project manager what is the likelihood of project completion within the given scope,…
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No free people to work on time&material type of contract
A small company signed time&material type of contract with client A which basically guarantee that 3 people would work on project for the client. The cooperation lasts a few quarters already and so far both sides were happy with it.
In the meantime…
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What Are The Steps I Need To Take When Putting a Project On Hold?
There is a project (Project A) which is possibly being put on hold because resources are being diverted to another project that has potential for impressive revenue gains. The project sponsors, as well as the PM, both want to revisit Project A and…
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Are Agile Project Deliverables Generally Tied To Stage Payments?
Do software developers operating under some sort of agile development cycle and presenting a series of 'deliverables' to their customer generally expect—or contract—their clients to make a stage payment per acceptable deliverable?
I ask as many…
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Does Scrum only works for teams working on actual features?
According to the Scrum guidelines, the development team has to do all the tasks required to fulfil the definition of "Done".
There are projects like mine, however, which are organized on teams focused only on parts of the development(a team build…
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How to encourage more participation in web scrum meetings?
I have recently become scrum master for an established team that has been doing many parts of Scrum, but has not had a scrum master. The team is great team who does well and I have been trying hard to continue with what they are doing that works,…
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What is the difference between metric and KPI?
I know that KPI is a metric and metric is not necessarily a KPI, but I still don't understand the difference between these two. Let's take Periscope application as an example. What are possible KPI and metrics for this app, from a PM perspective?
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How to decide what features should be in MVP?
Is there any technique to make a decision whether to include the feature in MVP or not?
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What are the "pillars" of the Kanban process?
The Scrum Guide states:
Three pillars uphold every implementation of empirical process
control: transparency, inspection, and adaptation.
What are the pillars of the Kanban process? Are they the same or is something different?
N.B. I understand…
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