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How to improve a Scrum-Team with a Product Owner who lacks authority
I'm the new Scrum Master of a Team that develops a software for a customer outside our company. This is my first time working as Scrum Master; I have no background in this field. Our company is just a small software development contractor and our…
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Giving PMs a view of developer resource
I run a dev team of 8. We have a few PMs here and they often ask about getting a good view of what free developer resource we have.
Other parts of the business have a shared outlook calendar but for developers I feel this comes down to…
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Project Management Templates
In the interest of not reinventing the wheel, are there any useful websites with collections of good samples of various deliverables (project charters, status reports, communication plans, RACI matrixes, post-mortem templates, etc.)
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What is the value of tracking hours in a Sprint burn-down chart?
The burn down chart will have story points on the Y-Axis and duration (number of days) on the X-Axis. My team is able to complete the stories almost at the end of the Sprint. This means the burn down chart is never linear in relation to the 'ideal…
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From user stories to product, where and when to do graphic design?
We are taking our first steps in the Agile development world, and while we have a long path to follow, I'm having difficulties incorporating our graphic designer in the development process.
The previous PO believed in a Product definition =>…
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What is the way to go to create tasks?
I already read: How to map user stories into tickets?
But I still have difficulties understanding how I exactly should use a ticket system, especially in the case of tickets for new features.
Let's assume the project is at a point, where we know…
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What instrument to use to Define Scope of a software development project?
Define Scope is one of the processes to be accomplished in any project. An output of this process is a Scope Statement (according to PMBOK). This artifact identifies boundaries of a project and helps Project Manager to control its execution.
The…
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How to structure our organization and define agile teams in a multiple concurrent projects context?
I know that the agile concept requires the teams to be small, autonomous and self-sufficient, but how to organize teams when forming small and autonomous teams is almost impossible as each member controls a specific technology and thus must work in…
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How should team member act when they learn there was bribery in the project?
It is a question inspired by the one about handing the bribe: What should a project manager do if he/she is asked to pay a bribe?
Mine is a bit different. You're a project team member in the middle of a project and you accidentally overhear…
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Dealing with stories/functionality that will spread across the entire lifetime of the project
I'm trying to determine how I would deal with a story/epic that appears to potentially spread across every sprint.
As a user I wish to have see help information against data inputs so
that I can see a description and get assistance for inputting…
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What do you mean by inspect relationships during sprint retrospective
One of the purpose of the Sprint Retrospective is to: "inspect how the last Sprint went with regards to people, relationships, process, and tools".
What mean relationships?
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Agile Development and when to deliver
Agile promotes the use of giving your software to users as soon as possible so they can provide feedback and so we overcome the Waterfall problem of making an app no one wants.
But recently, I ran into this issue where giving it earlier would not…
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How do I improve the development process at our small startup?
I work for a small, independent software development startup. We’ve been in business for nearly three years now and things are going pretty well. We’ve got a pretty steady stream of projects for an ever expanding client base, and as a result have…
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Who should decide about changes in the process - Scrum Master or the whole Scrum Team?
I need some clarification about how the changes should be introduced within the process in a Scrum Team and how a Scrum Master should approach it.
By changes in the process I mean for example: changing the length of a sprint, introducing some…
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Having problems within development team re approach
Noob PM here - I have a project with 3 developers (one of whom is tech lead), a BA, and a tester. The tech lead (hereafter referred to as TL) is responsible (on the RACI) for the technical output of the team, i.e actually delivering the software.
TL…
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