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How to permit multiple Project Managers to update a shared project

I have searched and not found an answer for this (nor did Google help). We are on Project Server 2007. I am running a large program with multiple project managers handling different parts of the program. I would like to allow one of my project…
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How can the role of QA maintain the alignment between the Business and IT?

In my previous organization there was a disconnection between the Business Operations and IT that always impacted the final derivable. For some reason, the Business intent was not accurately represented on the final product. Even though we reviewed…
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Are Functional Managers or Project Managers Better Candidates for Executive-Level Positions?

Project Managers work with different skilled workers to meet a specific goal, while Functional Managers manage a specific business unit that may provide services to the project manager. Based on the answers in the question, What are the…
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Documenting institutional knowledge and legacy systems

I am a long-tenured employee at my company and have become the subject matter expert for our business rules and the reasoning behind them. Additionally, I'm the last person around that knows the legacy systems which means I'm often the bottle neck…
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Should there be testing-only user stories?

We estimate stories as 1, 2, 4, 6, or 8 points. Consider a story with less development work but huge testing effort. Let's say we estimate that story as 8 points. We see the following options: Let the story be 8 points, and be ready for the story…
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Is there a project management methodology that is designed for small teams of 1-3 people?

I am doing a research project on this topic for a graduate class, and I have had a hard time finding sources that specifically talk about this in detail rather than briefly mentioning it and moving on to the big project ideas. Has there been any…
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How to handle epics in Kanban?

We are about to start working with Kanban instead of Scrum for our product development. We have identified that we will ahve the following flow: Backlog -> Analyze -> Development - Test Nothing strange there. For stories that are small from the…
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What are some ways to improve team motivation and sense of achievement using Kanban?

I manage a development team using Scrum extremely successfully. When I started there was no organization to development, so we implemented Kanban as a stepping stone to provide visibility into the work we do. Although Kanban did improve things,…
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Is it accepted practice to group user stories by epics in the sprint backlog?

I have a sprint backlog with about 50 user stories that can be broken down into 7 epics. However, each epic is only partially represented in the current sprint. For example, one of the epics is migrating content. For sprint 1, we will do 3/10 user…
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What should be the methodology followed by a research and development project?

I am an Engineering undergrad and I am working towards establishing a 8-10 person team for a 6-8 month long academic research project. Timeline We will be starting the groundwork for the project in September and initially, due to time constraints,…
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At what point does a user story get tested in an iteration?

We are new to Agile, and we have been noticing that user stories usually get completed by the end of the iteration. Testers have very little time to test stories thoroughly; they're idle for most part of the iteration. This seems wrong. What is the…
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What should we do when we split an Epic and we still get XXXL user stories from it?

We know by books that: User stories should be Valuable, estimable, independend and so on... We are newbies on all this SCRUM stuff, and we have arrive to the following feature / epic / backlog item: "Accept reservations by SMS" The problem is…
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Scrum and TFS assignments

We're using TFS (2012) as our task tracking system for our Scrum project. In TFS, we have User Stories, and off each story, we have 1 or more tasks. A user story in our case is something like: As a user, I need to be able to log into the system, to…
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Who should estimate user stories?

Should the product owner take part in estimating user stories? Furthermore, in our team not all developer familiar with every part of the system. Client and server side is a usual separation. GUI guys are not too familiar the server side code and…
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Does a change request change the requirement specification?

Imagine this: You are working on a already developed system in a stable release and now there is a change request coming up. Do you need to rewrite/change the requirement specification (and update the document to a new version)? Note: I am very…
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