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Is it possible to transform from a functional or matrix or project organization?

There are clear pros and cons to the different types of organizational structures: functional vs. matrix vs. project. What strategies are necessary to change the culture?
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Does Kanban apply well in practice to software projects with data science background?

A more or less new trend which I observe is integration of data science processes (i.e. workflows required to setup and execute experiments) to design and delivery of user facing apps. So I assume business expects this new data science capability to…
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Missed deadlines. Who's responsible?

This is gonna be a bit of a hard to answer question with there being too many variables. I'm a worker. And i have missed plenty of deadlines. I have come to the personal opinion that a missed deadline is always the fault of poor management. This is…
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How important is having the PO inside the team?

I believe the Product Owner is an important member of the team and needs to be as accessible as any other. I've recently been confronted by the idea that because the PO is part of 'the business' (i.e.: the client) they should not be considered as a…
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What are the artifacts in Kanban?

Scrum has a number of well-defined artifacts, including: Product Backlog Sprint Backlog Burn-Down Chart Increment What artifacts are essential to Kanban?
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Open Source Agile Project tracker?

I have a small project I want to carry out. I need an open source Project Tracker which could integrate with Subversion and has a Scrum oriented UI. I'm trying to raise this as a client server on a windows server or similar. There is probably more…
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How to handle "bad quality code" by a team member

Thing is, we are a start-up. So far, I have been the only programmer taking care of our desktop app, api, mobile app...etc, but obviously we had to hire another programmer. He is quite experienced "frontend developer", but when he started working on…
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Best (most agile) way to develop multiple products concurrently

I would like to restructure my development teams so that they can work in a more agile way, however each of those teams needs to develop changes for multiple products in their business area. I've seen many comments on here on how that is an…
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Keep User Assignment for Tasks in Done Columns?

I do understand that the concept of the Work In Progress (WIP) of a column counts for both, the "in progress" and the "done"-subcolumn to keep the flow stable and force the team to identify and solve bottlenecks. We have an interdisciplinary team…
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How to visualize and manage task dependencies?

I often have the need to achieve a specified goal (e.g. deliver a piece of software functionality). At the start of the work I identify the goal and can list some tasks needed to bring about the desired outcome. For each of the identified tasks, I…
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Does it make sense to require developers to write a "business value add" section in each issue?

Background In our company we demand that engineers write a brief one liner section in each ticket they work on (from jira/github/gitlab etc) that explains the "business requirement".. the logic of that is explained here (text copied from our "issue…
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In Jira, how do you capitalizing the dev time for each story?

Right now we use Git Hub Issues for each project an individual engineer is working on. We're are making a transition to broader stories handled in Jira. We mark each task either Cap or Exp for accounting purposes so we can figure out how much of our…
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How to sort by task numbers?

I’m running into a formatting issue that I’ve never seen before with Project. If I have a list of tasks under a summary task and then insert a new task in the middle of the list, after I change views and come back to the Gantt view the order of the…
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What to do when WIP limits must be broken?

So I've been trying to push Kanban, and consequently having WIP (Work In Progress) limits, but there's one question I keep being asked that I don't have a great answer for: "What happens when we're at our WIP limit and 'do it now' work crops…
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Project management Laws

I'd like some web or list of well-known laws of project management. Examples: Pareto Principle, Law of 90%, Parkinson Law, etc. Some days ago I read about one that say something like: "If you study how some group of people react to a certain thing…
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