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What are the key roles in a Scrum team?
Based on my understanding, Product owner, Scrum Master and Development team are the major roles in a Scrum team. I have to setup a .Net Scrum team with 5-8 members. I don't have enough knowledge about Scrum. Can any one please give a solution for…
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How do I select project management software for our current workflow?
We are a small engineering firm that has just expanded from one to three workers. Earlier, the managing of projects was done by e-mail, where the user sorted each project by folders in Outlook.
Since the expansion, we need to organize this for…
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How to manage different detail levels in a project plan to be presented to different audiences?
In any given project, a variety of detail levels are needed:
executive summary
technical summary
delivery team summary
delivery details
How can these different levels of detail be contained and published in the same project plan (specifically…
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How to organize sprints during the user acceptance tests phase?
What is the suggested approach to sprints organization during the tests phase? Lets assume that we have finished development sprints, internal tests (analysts & developers) are over. Application is deployed on test environment for user acceptance…
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How Feasible is Agile in Large Department of Defense Projects?
There is an interesting discussion that has been reignited by Jeff Sutherland about the U.S. Department of Defense using Agile project management. While it seems that there is broad consensus as to the value of using Agile on government projects,…
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How to deal with a challenging sponsor?
A couple of related issues:
My sponsor is visionary but fails to communicate the vision clearly enough to allow implementation. This leads to a lot of unnecessary rework.
My sponsor communicates with team leaders directly without keeping me (or…
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How Can I Apply My Software Project Management Skills to a Hardware Project?
I've been working in project management in software for a couple years now and loving it, but I'm now going to be transitioning over to a large project that's mostly hardware (still IT). I feel like most project management resources are either a)…
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Accounting for scope growth in agile development
I work on a lot of small, agile software projects without huge up-front requirements; just ideas that I flesh out over time. Generally, development follows these stages:
Prototype (couple of days)
Figure out 80% of the features and put them in the…
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Issues with the Iterative Development Model
I am the Product Manager for a software company. We use an iterative development model (similar to Agile) to separate out versions of our software (i.e. 7.3, 7.4, 7.5, etc.) Prior to each version, we make a design plan based on a combination of…
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How is Risk Management in Agile Development Different From Risk Management in Waterfall Model?
In a typical project lifecycle, as a manager you are expected to have a risk plan which (please correct me if I'm wrong) consists of identifying, assessing and prioritizing all potential risks of the project. However, I don't understand how these…
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What is an "implementation plan"?
I was recently given the task of creating an implementation plan document. When I asked for an example of one that I could look at, I was told to look at the Project Plan that had already been created an use that as a base. I'm still a bit…
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What is a "typical" duration for how long it takes to start up a project?
We are trying to put some statistics together internally to get a better handle on how long it takes to complete pre-project work for business improvement projects. This work includes work corresponds roughly to the "Starting-Up A Project Phase"…
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How to manage hard feelings among distinct teams? (Integration of data)
My company has recently acquired another small company. Now, my company has a ERP system that we are using it presently. Also, the acquired company has an ERP system of its own.
Now I have been given the responsibility of integrating my company's…
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How can I ensure our project gets developed successfully, without having any project management experience?
I'm a web developer who is part of a three-man team that has been tasked with a rather large and complex development project. Other than some direction and impetus from management, we're pretty much on our own to develop the new website. None of us…
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What is good PM software for an iterative system development approach?
We aren't necessarily using Agile, but we aren't using the Waterfall approach either; it's more of a hybrid of both.
I was told that Microsoft Project is great for the Waterfall method, but it's not really good to plan out iterative projects.
Are…
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