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What is the role of a C# or Java Technical Team Lead in an agile/XP approach?

There is, funnily enough, not much information on this type of role on the Internet. Perhaps that in itself says something. I do however find myself in this role for a small development team of around 8 C# developers working on different streams. I…
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What is the definition of "project" in Agile settings?

The context is a PMO running across two development groups, one doing Agile development, the other using the waterfall model. In order to come up with a common approach and engagement model, we would like to standardize roles, responsibilities, and…
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How to handle costly risks?

In general risk costs are not estimated as part of the initial estimates. How do you handle these costs? Through Change Requests? Any other thoughts on these costs? What is the best way to communicate these to Senior Management and Sponspors?
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What information can predict positive future performance when evaluating candidates?

We have developers who have cleared the technical round of interviewa and the technical interviewers mentioned that the developers appear to have good communication skills. Since bringing good people into a project is difficult, what information can…
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When should I assign 0 and 0.5 story points to user stories in Scrum?

I am not a Scrum Master or a Ph.D. in math. How do stories with 0 and 0.5 points apply to stories on the Scrum board?
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Trying to develop a Project Health Check tool - How can I show the Health of a Project in Dollars and Hours?

My projects generally have 6 areas (Engineering, Fabrication, Assembly etc). Each area has been allotted a budget for a particular project (dollars and hours). Every week, I get a report on how much we spent (in dollars and hours) in each area on…
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Role of a project manager

At my work we have a single project manager on site. We have several concurrently running projects split between a couple of dozen developers, and we also have several developer teams overseas who work on the same projects. Each project involves…
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Transition to feature teams organisation

We are running multiple Scrum teams, all dedicated to one technology or know-how: ops, server developers, web frontend, UX desigers, etc. We would like to move to a feature teams organisation. I have read that the easiest transition, is to create…
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Can someone explain the Requirements Traceability Matrix purpose?

So I was taking a sample scope management test online, and Question #9 stumped me -- the question on the traceability matrix. Can someone please explain why b is better than c? Below is the direct question, quoted from the PMP Den Exam Question 3…
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Outsourcing a project: How do I determine if an outsourcer is a good fit?

We are going to outsource a project to an outsourcing website. I am going to be talking to a few of them today. I have done this once before but that was a miserable failure and the project never got done, we only got excuses. I know to ask them…
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Scrum or V-Cycle?

Contextual Information I have problems in describing the Development Process of my project. I'm doing my internship in an enterprise as an Information Systems designer and Java EE developer, for graduation. I need to talk about the development…
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How to start my first project?

I'm going to manage my first project that is really a small stream of an even greater project, and my boss said that I could make my own schedule and plans etc. I have a couple of questions, I need some help with: When it comes to organizing…
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Is there are a resource handler or gantt chart creator tool for JIRA?

I'm hoping someone has some experience on tools and/or better keywords to describe this problem: I have JIRA system for developers where they provide estimates and track time completed. The estimate could be captured in a higher level tool, but the…
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How to handle confusion of "user stories" term in agile methodology?

I find myself in an non-agile environment where "user story" actually means "use case, backed by an excel requirements specification, a testing specification doc, and a few required wireframes || mock ups thrown in". They want to go agile. If the…
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Help regarding creating a WBS for an Application

I'm trying to build a work breakdown structure for a project I'm working on and since this is my first time doing something like this I was wondering if I could get some guidance. The application I'm working on is a simple task list web application…
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