Most Popular
1500 questions
6
votes
3 answers
Team members struggling to thin slice business value - how to help?
I have been asked to join a new a team which is struggling with agile adoption within a large programme utilising fairly methodical Scrum. The aim of the product is to create a surface layer over the current legacy customer information systems…
Venture2099
- 4,075
- 18
- 38
6
votes
3 answers
Delays in getting project sign off
I'm facing a challenging situation with one of my clients. We completed the project as planned in 4 months and now the next step is the project deployment at his site. The problem is his site is not ready for the deployment process for lack of…
Yehia A.Salam
- 273
- 1
- 6
6
votes
4 answers
What are the responsibilities in a Scrum of Scrums?
In an Agile environment, where there are multiple Scrum teams, I'm told that each team can nominate an "ambassador" to represent them in the "Scrum of Scrums" stand-up.
What happens when there is conflict (priorities, dependencies, technical…
Michael
- 223
- 1
- 6
6
votes
4 answers
Test manager too busy to get acceptance criteria written before sprint starts
We are about to start a new project that is expected to be over about 8 weeks of 2 week sprints. We are attempting to implement this in an agile manner and so we have recently had a sprint planning meeting.
During this meeting we identified the…
dreza
- 432
- 2
- 9
6
votes
2 answers
New developer has trouble communicating
We recently hired a senior developer however he has issues communicating. There is a bit of a language barrier but even when spoken to in his own language he is difficult to communicate with. I am never sure if he has understood what he has been…
L. Young
- 96
- 4
6
votes
4 answers
Are you allowed to make even small changes in a Waterfall project?
In a Waterfall project, are you allowed to make even small changes, such as the design style of the user login form, when the project went passed the design phrase?
Andy
- 161
- 1
- 2
6
votes
1 answer
Project Deadlines in an Early State (Scrum Project)
How to deal with early projects states where serious deadline agreements cannot be made yet?
We are in an early stage of the project with new people.
The team is small and everything is new (technology and people): In short. A lot of dynamic…
Matthias
- 293
- 1
- 7
6
votes
1 answer
What alternatives can I find to Kanban for enterprise applications
We are currently using Kanban to manage customizations and extensions within our application.
Our application is an enterprise application which is highly configurable, however, configure the tool right is quite complicate.
The development of our…
Antonio
- 163
- 3
6
votes
2 answers
How to measure customer satisfaction in Scrum?
We use Scrum and we make software products for other companies (I guess it's called B2B).
So, first subquestion: Who should be satisfied by the Development Team: the Product Owner or the Stakeholders? I believe both. But I think, that the main goal…
Sergey Kudryavtsev
- 5,311
- 6
- 30
- 57
6
votes
2 answers
How to add special, non-continuous dates to one task?
I am using Microsoft Project Standard 2013 and would like to know how I can add a split task to my gantt diagram.
This task shell visualize dates where no changes to our infrastructure are allowed. Therefor this task has more than one beginning and…
Matthias Güntert
- 161
- 3
6
votes
5 answers
How to manage a situation when one team member doesn't want to participate in retrospectives?
Team works together for couple of months. They are somewhere between norming and performing phase. All team members are enthusiastic about their work and the product they work on.
One of team members says that he doesn't benefit from retrospectives.…
Bartek Kobyłecki
- 1,748
- 1
- 12
- 21
6
votes
3 answers
Story point on team with separate technologies
Currently we do like this:
we estimate backlog in hours
on sprint planning we fill backlog by assign tasks to persons as each one has different technology background and we need to know how much of the stuff could be taken in (we also have a buffer…
florin
- 161
- 1
6
votes
1 answer
The role of a product team in new product development
This question is specific to new product development.
I am part of a medium size organization. In our organization, our executive team sets the product strategy. Once the product strategy is set, a product manager is assigned to work with a…
tugowar
- 153
- 7
6
votes
3 answers
Who owns the project timeline?
On a large, fully staffed, project team, under ideal situations, who would you expect to own the project timeline?
blueberryfields
- 1,560
- 1
- 12
- 20
6
votes
6 answers
How can we mitigate uncertainty about project estimation in the initial phase?
According to Boehm’s Software Engineering Economics, during the project initiation, estimates can be off by as much as 400%.
However, in order to make the sale, account managers are expected to make on-the-spot estimates of the project duration. The…
Gustav Bertram
- 163
- 4