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Methodology to Predict Future Workload
I am working on a prediction of future growth of a workshop (50 – 100 manual workers). The idea is to develop how and in what way we would like to grow this facility. I am looking for a methodology or conceptual framework that would put me on rails,…
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What should a project manager do if he/she is asked to pay a bribe?
It is a common practice in some territories to pay bribes while doing business. Sometimes government officials have to be paid in order to issue a license or permit. Sometimes customers ask for certain money back in case of tender winning.…
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Small firm with 4 developers and 2 project managers in need of some guidance for project workflow
I work as a developer in a small IT firm with 4 developers and 2 project managers.
We currently implement some sort of traditional project management, in which the workflow for a given project is as follows:
Project manager gathers functional…
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Career Progression from Product Owner
I work for a multinational IT consultancy firm that has a number of 'software assets' that it sells and develops for its clients. I started with the company straight out of University in a software testing position on a team implementing a solution…
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Vision vs Requirements vs Design vs Specification
I am learning a little bit about project management with the book, "Making things happen".
Now I'm confused what the vision, requirements, design, and specification are. If I read the book everything seems logical but if I try to write such…
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How to factor in story points/tasks for non sprint related items?
I understand that in general you create stories with story point complexity, and then define tasks and subtasks in which to mark time against, but how does this translate into items that are outside of any code development?
For example, you are part…
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Are there any wrong methods when selecting a team?
When selecting a team do you think it’s beneficial to use information collated from exercises such as Honey & Mumford – Learning Style Questionnaires?
Furthermore, would you encourage team/individual exercises like this in an existing team with the…
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Best way to deal with developers whose work is always unsatisfactory
The problem is not in experience,
The developers have all the necessary resources to work in a good dev environment (time, books, assistance, team leads, technical leads, senior devs, project managers).
However, there are always serious problems in…
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What to do If client set the deadline for tasks in software development?
What to do if the client which you work for gives you tasks as well as deadline for those tasks, without compromising on time and budget? Even though you know that the tasks can not be completed within required time, how would a manager/software…
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How does the TFS 2012 burndown work for tasks created and worked on in the same day?
It appears that the TFS 2012 burndown works a bit differently than I expect.
Suppose my current iteration is at 100 hours remaining out of 200 total original estimate, and my three team members each create a task today, estimate each at 6 hours, and…
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How can I measure the performance of individuals within Scrum?
I know it should not be done, but I'm tasked by my company to measure the performance of each person on the Scrum team. What would be a "not so bad" way of doing it?
P.S. I cannot let the team decide how to do it.
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Implementing Feedback in Agile Development
I need to know about product development planning in a particular scenario. I planned my sprint and executed it, and then I submitted the product URL for feedback and received a response from my Product Owner. In this case, in which sprint (current…
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What is "agile's answer" to projects that come in many shapes and sizes with different scope?
We have a set of teams and they are trying to go Agile. Lets say each team support one application and we have a total of 4 teams and 4 applications. When we projects that are all within a team / application and the backlog fits within the team,…
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Organisation fails to deliver a Product Owner
I am working in a Scrum-team that has been developing software for the past year. The organisation isn't used to agile product development and initially provided a weak product owner who was chosen because of his functional knowledge about the…
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Can a sprint be composed of vertical slices of functionality across multiple 'projects'?
Our company is doing some Scrum experimentation, and I have a quick question about what exactly a sprint should be composed of.
After the sprint planning meeting, we settled on three different stories. One story stands completely on its own, and can…
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