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How do I deal with ballooning timescales?
When starting a brand new project, no matter how well I try to consider all of the components I always end up with a rapidly expanding list of features and missed requirements by half way through.
How do I deal with these before or during the…
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How to create a visual product road map that follows agile?
My boss loves Gaant charts, because they give you a high level visual overview of the product roadmap.
The problem with Gaant, it is fixed time related and goes completely against the concept of the teams velocity which you only really find out once…
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How to decide if a "quick, small change" should be implemented?
In my blog I assert that (in software projects) the quick, small change does not exist.
Let's define the quick, small change as a 30-second task.
Let's take a simple task: Deleting the extra period at the end of a sentence, or changing the hue or…
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Scrum Review Meetings - Real World
Scrum Review Meetings in theory look good on paper.
But in real world , do this review meetings yield anything positive continuously ? Or people just go through the motions ?
I am currently in a team , where we just go through the motions and there…
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What is the relationship between the Kano Model and Quality Function Deployment?
I've read a bit about the Kano Model, and seen pictures, etc:
but how is this connected to the idea of Quality Function Deployment. How do you integrate the ideas behind the Kano model into QFD?
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Based on Marc's comment, I would say the the…
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Development team are not meeting sprint deadlines
I do 1 week sprints with my scrum team, and every Monday I do a sprint planning where my team estimates by allocating story points to the cards, this then allows me to measure the progress of a sprint in a burndown chart. The trouble that I am…
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What needs to be in place to get a Software project estimate within 10%
Often we hear people wanting estimates to be within 10% even if the dev team has not been hired yet and you have no idea about their productivity. This results in techniques such as fat and burn (add fat burn if you are under) being applied.
To…
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How to split a User Story that spans multiple sprints?
I have a User Story that contains a bunch of tasks, similar to this:
User Story: Fix any broken JavaScript in CMS
Task: Find and fix broken JavaScript in content
Task: Find and fix broken JavaScript in code base
Task: Find and fix broken…
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What is the best way to handle small items in a backlog?
Background. There is a web platform as a product. There are few teams contributing to it. Usually a team works on a feature, delivers the feature and maintains it. There are millions of end users and the adoption of features takes weeks. During…
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How to write user stories for our UI development process?
First of all, let me apologize if I make some writing mistakes since english is not my native language.
I'm currently working at a UX company as a front-end dev and I'm having some problems trying to understand agile development properly. Let me…
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Custom software development, dealing with change requests?
We are currently developing an in house solution. The trouble that we are having is that the main stake holder is cultivating the idea as he goes along, leading to endless change requests.
I am currently managing the project in an agile scrum way,…
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How to manage a schedule across multiple PMs when using a single team for both development & support?
I work for a small company (22 people), whereby the development team works on both new features (40%) and support/maintenance tasks (60%).
We have several account/project managers who prioritise the clients tickets within Jira using a Kanban board,…
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Scrum Master duties at steady state?
After a team is established and has been stable for a while, what sorts of day-to-day routine work should the scrum master be doing?
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Who pays when actuals exceed pessimistic estimates?
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A Developer estimates between 70 to 100 hours for a task. Due to the urgency of the task and the developer's unavailability, a far less experienced developer is assigned to the project. The new developer takes 200 hours to complete the…
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Difference between user story and acceptance criteria
I am having trouble differentiating user stories and acceptance criteria.
An example on I saw elsewhere state -
User Story:
As a user of the library catalogue, I want advanced search options on the front page so that I can quickly and easily refine…
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