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Difference between Minimum Viable Product (MVP) and Minimum Marketable Feature (MMF)
Are MVP and MMF related and how are they different?
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Internal Competition vs Collaboration [closed]
Suppose you are a senior executive designing an organization that owns multiple brands in an industry. You can either structure the business unit to have each brand compete or collaborate.
How do you ...
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What are the required documents should I prepare In order to start my Project
I am preparing to start my new project which is Developing open source ERP System
What really I am confusing about:
How to start : what is the first step should I begin with. ( Preparing the ...
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Calculate start and finish dates based on remaining work in Project
I have a project plan for a project that we already started and I want the plan to reflect the schedule moving forward, say as of tomorrow. I have a handful of dependencies and resources assigned.
I ...
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What are some good resources for a new rollout manager?
I'm coming from a technical background and starting as a project manager in a rollout project in the telecom industry. What are good resources (books, etc) for a rollout manager? I'm reading "Making ...
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1answer
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Scrum and TFS assignments
We're using TFS (2012) as our task tracking system for our Scrum project. In TFS, we have User Stories, and off each story, we have 1 or more tasks. A user story in our case is something like:
As ...
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How should a Product Owner in a Scrum framework deal with client requests that differ from the PO's preferred UCD approach?
Let's say that our Product Owner decides to take the path of User Centered Design (UCD). So, instead of looking at what the client wants he looks at what the end user wants.
How do you convince the ...
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How to timebox Spikes using story points?
My original question was raised here: In Scrum, how to estimate research stories? and as suggested by @CodeGnome I created a separate question.
In my opinion Spikes should be time-boxed as there is ...
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Agile team management strategy for small projects
I would like to thank StackExchange - Project Management group for providing me with full support and guidance to move forward in my career path. I'm now a Project Manager and a Junior web and ...
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How do you professionally manage the whole procedure of a small web project?
I am a web designer/developer and I take some projects from individual clients that include the whole construction procedure of a website. That includes:
planning
wireframing
communication with ...
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Scrum, agile and changes
We are starting a Sprint today, first day of a 3 week Sprint. Our requirements from the client are still evolving, so remaining hours is estimated on some unclear values.
How should a deviation in ...
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New in an IT infrastructure project company - what to do first? [closed]
If a project manager with a software development background assigned as a project manager for an IT infrastructure project company, what should be done first? Let me know your innovative ideas
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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 ...
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Who should estimate user stories?
Should the product owner take part in estimating user stories?
Furthermore, in our team not all developer familiar with every part of the system. Client and server side is a usual separation. GUI ...
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1answer
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Indicate max hours per day per resource in MS Project Plan
I have a project that has 4 team members in the plan:
2 developers @ 8 hours per day
2 developers @ 4 hours per day
How can I configure that two of those dev can only work 4 hours per day but the ...
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Recommendation for Application Life Cycle Management Software [closed]
I am look for a solid and versatile application life cycle management software. Any recommendations?
I have looked into:
JIRA
ALM-Complete [ Formerly Software Planner]
ASANA [a little bit out of ...
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2answers
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How useful are Green Belt techniques in medium/small software projects?
Background -
I work for a ~100 person sized genetics company that is newly owned by an ~8000+ person corporation. Over the last 2 years I've been our software development project manager and have ...
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How do you track and make sure process improvements in a project after go live are progressing?
We have a project that has gone live. We are seeing post implementation issues. I have now a list of issues and some improvement plan. There are also dates. Sometimes, those dates are not met and I ...
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Who is Best Suited to Guide the Delivery Process in a Feature Team set-up: QA, Ops Team or Feature PO?
A big hurdle when you move your organisation from a component team to a feature team is the delivery process.
Feature teams all code in all components, using branches. Then we live a branch hell. We ...
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Create team activities that will lead to an improved documentation process
One of my goals for this year is to try to improve the documentation process within the R&D-department. My first step have been to sit down with each developer and talk about documentation in ...
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Will Project Managers Disappear in a Scrum World?
In a Scrum team there is no role of a project manager. Does that mean that project manager jobs will eventually disappear? What is a project manager supposed to do when organization starts to shift ...
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1answer
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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 ...
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When is time tracking too detailed?
Currently, all developers all required to "clock in" by actually clicking on a timer in our internal application. So even a discrepancy of 3 minutes from the budget needs to be accounted for.
As a ...
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Vision for a team with multiple projects
Steve McConnell mentions in his Rapid Development book that a team needs a shared, elevating vision or goal to be a real team not just a group of people.
What could be the vision when there are ...
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Agile team missing commitments regularly and complaining about no trust
I am on the product side and have an agile team that has missed every sprint commitment through the first 4 by between 40 and 60% measured by points. The team continues to say, that it is OK and that ...
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Magento project phases [closed]
As from my point of view, Magento project phases will go like:
Consulting and creating project specs
Installing magento
Configuring magento
Intalling theme / doing theming (fist phtml ...
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how to manage a team resource all in one place [closed]
I want to know how can I manage all my team resource all in one place.Now, I host my codes at Bitbucket using a free private git, and manage my documents at Google drive.But where should I put my ...
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Task tracking tool with visual clustering/dependency/prioritization/difficulty feature [closed]
We've been using JIRA and greenhopper for a while and are getting tired of how slow and cumbersome the interface is... While JIRA is fine to track issues, what we're looking for is something that ...
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1answer
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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 ...
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What are additional responsibilities that a coordinating manager can take up?
I am working as a coordinator for two teams situated in different time zones. I do everything that is related to coordination (arrange meetings, doing scrum updates across teams, adding clarification ...
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Should the same person to do the testing that did the development?
Background
We have 50 employees who are working on different projects in a team of 3-4 people. In my firm the testing is done by the developers. We have 2 or 3 products with a large code base that we ...
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1answer
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How should I deal with changing points of contact on a Project (client side)?
The point of contact (say, Dave) on a large project has now informed me that due to the overwhelming quantity of work, he has now authorized a new point of contact (Let's call her Sally). The ...
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Student project vs Real project
I've been a part of student project teams for years now, both in highschool and at university level.
I enjoy project managing but so far it's always been fictional, but as I'm going in to the next ...
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Does a change request change the requirement specification?
Imagine this: You are working on a already developed system in a stable release and now there is a change request coming up. Do you need to rewrite/change the requirement specification (and update the ...
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Managing an employee that might not respect your authority
I inherited a team 9 months ago. My style is to work alongside my team (and help them set goals + priorities) versus use fear, dictate, or break their confidence.
A member of my team is a year older ...
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MS Project 2013 Does not have Sync to SharePoint Option
I know this is short but this is the problem. I have a user that has MS Project 2013 and his option under Save As for Sync with SharePoint is not there. Any idea why? I have tried looking ...
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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 ...
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Podio - How can we re-schedule other future tasks?
Does anyone know whether it is possible to re-schedule several tasks at once with Podio?
Let's say I have one task that needs to pass to another day. I wish that all others future tasks also adjust ...
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SCRUM or V-Cycle?
Explicitly, 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 ...
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My boss says a Senior PM should show more commitment
As a PM I am working with a team and I almost always define our times, however, sometimes my boss stipulates a deadline to the presentation, and even when I discuss it with him he explains the project ...
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Is there a way to disable the Wiki functionality / hide it completly in Redmine?
We like to use a common Wiki for all Projects. This for we use a DokuWiki. Now there is still the module in Redmine shown with the Wiki functionality which create often discussion in teams what to ...
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Status Report - Multiple projects
I publish status report on weekly basis for multiple projects. Normally I uses different tabs for each project in MS Excel.
To make it more effective, I want to publish project updates in email ...
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How to mentor a newbie tester when I lack relevant experience?
I have been working as a developer in software industry for the past 8 years. I have seen many projects and worked as a dev lead which also involves interacting with QA team to get the testing done of ...
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How will you do the planning for a client who will start a business? [closed]
I have a client who wants to do business in a specific region. What should be the overall plan in terms of setting up the company? What other things should be considered?
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Can someone explain how to find the answer to discount factor questions?
I'm really confused. Can someone please explain how to find the answer to these questions?
A project requires $10 million dollars in initial investment. The projected revenue is $3 million dollars ...
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How can I generate a timeline for tasks based on “typical man-days?” [closed]
I need to come up with the planned and actual start & end dates for the following tasks below. How should I do it and what is my basis?
Finalize business user requirements
Technical ...
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Developing Skills in Project/ Program Delivery [closed]
How do you become strong at program delivery? What should be the specific steps to take?
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How are Teams guided during a Sprint? [closed]
By their collective knowledge and experience or project documentation and the Scrum process
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Should development team leaders be line managers?
In a development team with a leader, should this leader be a line manager or is it better to separate the two roles?
How much admin/HR should a hands-on leader actually do before it becomes the ...
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How to structure a software development team
Given a 15x strong software development team working on individal projects, and small, medium, and large projects; what is the best way to structure this team and what is the best software development ...
