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Tool suggestion to manage multiple projects / people working on several projects at once?
This is the situation in our office and I would need a recommendation which tool to you to facilitate our work. At the moments, things are slowly slipping out of my hands.
What we have:
many ...
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Link requirements within PDF or HTML files to increase traceability
Do you know of any tool (or plugin for such tool) with following features:
Manage Requirements (like Redmine, DOORS, Borland Caliber and many more...)
Link Requirements with parts of a PDF or HTML ...
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Improve performance of feature X - should that be a new user story or something else?
We have implemented and closed user story X but found out later that the implementation is too slow and we need to improve performance. I think it was a mistake not to have acceptance criteria for ...
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What should we do with a task that has been blocked
We're using Agile and Scrum methodology.
For this iteration a coworker had to finish her Development task, which was carried over from last iteration. We thought it will be done in two days and we ...
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Is estimating a project without basic requirements or user stories a good idea for a fixed cost proposal?
I am currently trying to create an estimate for a software proposal.
In this context, we are requesting a fixed cost amount of funds.
I personally lean toward Agile development practices. I, ...
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Agile and Scrum:- approaches, problems, common mistakes and lessons learned
From doing Agile and Scrum are there any lessons you can pass on from your experiences?
Are there any approaches that work better than others?
Which of the many parts of the theories have you found ...
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product owner vision document
I am reading some information about scrum, and want to know how the product owner make the vision document?
and if can recommend me any book.
Many thanks.
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Where do I find public JIRA/Greenhopper instance used by Kanban project teams?
I'd love to see Atlassian's JIRA/Greenhopper Rapid Board in action, i.e. actively used in a Kanban project.
So far I have not been able to find a public one. Do you know any (e.g. open source) ...
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What first, UX/UI or Scrum Backlog to create a MVP?
I am really interested in expert opinions about my approach on UX/UI design and Agile software development. I hope someone with expertise on this field could help me with my doubts.
From my ...
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how to cover details (side effect not desired workflow) with scrum user stories
As a scrum/agile system student, i am finding very hard the situation where you have to write up a user story in the clasical form and at the same time, describe the behaviour of parallel workflow. As ...
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Most suitable project management tool for a freelancer
I've been using JIRA for my project management since about a year. Before, I used Basecamp which was pretty useful, but someday I found out I needed time management and other more complex features.
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What actions will you take when Iteration/Sprint goals are in danger?
Let's say, you are a Scrum Master and your team is in the middle of a Sprint. You see that all planned stories can't be completed till the end of the Sprint, that's for sure. What action will you ...
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Good idea for a client to also be the project manager?
A while ago I took on a freelance web programming project with a company I'm already familiar with. My boss (also the company owner) typically pairs me with one of his PM employees for each project I ...
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Product Owners- Tips for engaging non-Engineering in the agile process
From my experience, in mid to large size software companies, agile most often grows out of the eningeering organization. Either grass roots up, from the team level, or exec sponsored from the ...
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Agile SCRUM Storyboards
At the moment im SCRUM Master for my place of work. We have one SCRUM Team in our organisation which is split across two sites:
Site 1: Scrummaster, Developer, QA
Site 2: Developer, Operational, QA
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Effect mapping and agile development
Today, I have found a new technique for Agile Development named "Effect Mapping", developed by Gojko Adzic:
http://gojko.net/effect-map/
The main idea behind it is about building the map tree of a ...
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What's the best way of estimating initial software size using '(agile) epics', given a time-to-market but not knowing who the developers will be?
Given a set of high level epics what's the best 'guestimate' we can come up with to scope the software system appropriately given a time-to-market window? What are some good/best practices for this ...
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Which Collaboration Software Do You Use?
We are looking for a new Collaboration-Software. Especially for collaboration, monitoring, reporting, project management, bugtracking, time management, agile software etc.
So I am interested in your ...
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Is there a powerful Multiple Calendar Tool out there?
I've looked into many different types of tools, but I'm not finding one that can:
Create multiple project calendars
See a Master View of All Project calendars
Unlimited filtering options for ...
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Why can't I find well elaborated criticism on agile/scrum on the web?
After several years of agile and scrum hype around, I'd expect the first well-known reactions from "bullshit!" to "magical!" to be gone and I should be able to find some really elaborated articles ...
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Can (and should) Agile be used for Infrastructure projects?
Is it possible to use agile methods for large IT infrastructure projects?
I am working on a large project where the development team uses agile methods, while the infrastructure (which is where I am ...
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How do you address the fear of control loss from Agile adoption
According to this survey, the most common concern about Agile adoption is a loss of management control.
What are the different arguments one can bring to address this specific concern? How do you ...
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How to Introduce Uncertainty without Scaring a Customer?
Recognizing uncertainty is fundamental to an Agile mindset. When leading the transition to a more agile mindset, how do you tell your customer that you, as a development team, generally operate in a ...
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From ScrumMaster (or any agile coach) to a direct line manager - how do people change their behavior?
I've been working as an agile coach for little over one year for one team. Recently I became a line manager for the same team.
So now I'm agile coach and line manager in one.
How can people change ...
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How to handle 'ilities' (or non-functional requirements) for a project planning/prioritization/work-allocation?
It seems the world is doing a good job at managing functional requirements for a system - you can link them to benefits, prioritize them and manage their implementation schedule (let's assume an ideal ...
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Business model for Scrum / Kanban based web app. targeted to software companies?
Sorry if it's not really appropriate to ask this question on this website.
The web application is targeted to software companies with at least two developers in the team and not to freelancers, who ...
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What are effective strategies for dealing with project bottlenecks?
I work as a software developer at a small non-IT company. One of the challenges we face is receiving timely feedback to questions and the testing of the programming assignments we handle. The root ...
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What do you do if the Product Owner is ill?
Simple question. How do you run the Sprint Review and Sprint planning?
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Fibonnacci sequence as story points?
Why do some of the teams use Fibonacci sequence as story points?
Is it just a preference or is there something more to it?
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Advice for dealing with a cowboy programmer in an agile team
We have a cowboy coder in our team i.e. he likes to take advantage developing some new features or tools that are not always requested nor useful. We use scrum/kanban for development, and it is quite ...
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Kanban and feature size
We are currently using SCRUM within our organisation but are considering moving to kanban (or scrumban).
As part of our SCRUM process we normally take into consideration size and complexity of ...
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What is a reasonable strategy for estimating story points for new stories?
The project I'm running is very exploratative in that I don't know very much detail about features in advance. My boss will tell me that he wants feature A and that after feature A is finished, he'll ...
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How do unknown-scope projects achieve project-level estimation with regards to the CMMI's Project Planning Specific Goal?
Specific Goal (SG) 1 of the Project Planning process area in CMMI (assessed at CMMI Level 2) is to establish estimates. One of the Specific Practices (SPs) that is recommended to achieve this goal is ...
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How to encourage the commitment on a sprint for a team
The biggest problem I have right now is the team is unable to commit on the stories and tasks planned during a sprint.
For example, we wanted to implement a new database, which is very complex and ...
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Kanban for multiple projects
We've been using http://acunote.com to manage our work queue. It's great for the planning phase, because you can nest stories. This makes it easy to outline an MVP within a given sprint.
Given that ...
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Unfinished Stories in a Sprint
Every so often, we find ourselves with a story that, for some reason, does not get completed during a sprint. This could be for a variety of reasons, such as a tricky bug, but the end result is that ...
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The role of a QA tester in a Scrum team
I've recently added a QA tester to our new Scrum team. The tester comes with a lot of experience in automated testing and is capable of scripting, light coding, etc. He will be using automation tools, ...
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How to apply Scrum in fixed date, fixed budget project?
Considering that we work on a project with fixed deadlines and fixed budget and we use Scrum: what are best practices we should use to make this setup successful? Since Scrum wasn't directly designed ...
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VCS + IssueTracking + CI for free?
What is the best way to build an IT infrastructure based on a free / affordable online services (GitHub, BitBucket, etc)?
To facilitate collaborative work of a group of independent remote developers ...
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Help with stories in Scrum
The company I work for has recently greenlit a large project to completely rewrite our software product. As PM, I have championed using Scrum on the project and the company have been very supportive ...
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Going from Scrum to Kanban near “release”
I am working as Scrum Master on a large software project. We are currently running Scrum. We have about one month left in the development phase before we are supposed to end our implementation phase.
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Advice for Special Short Sprints (2-5 Days)?
Most of our Sprints are 2 weeks long, but occasionally, we want to meet a special deadline in less time (2-5 days). So, we do a special "short" Sprint that is a bit different from our normal routine.
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Can I say Agile is “not” Lean and both Agile and Lean are totally different concepts?
Can I say Agile is "not" Lean and both Agile and Lean are totally different concepts or philosophies?
If I take lean principles:
"Self Organization"
"Kaizen or Cont. Improvement"
"Quality ...
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Creating “User Stories” without a user
[University Project]
I want to adopt as many practices from agile project management as I can for a university project. I've decided that the actual development approach will be based upon an FDD ...
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Reverse Auction “Kanban-like” methodology for agile development
I am trying to get some feedback on a methodology I would like to try with my team. Two problem areas I want to try and adapt this process to addess are:
A mix of time-critical (contracted ...
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One Dev One month - What elements of agile would you use
I'm starting a one dev project (me) and it's going to be a short one (Approx. 4 weeks).
In such a short term scenario, I still went through the requirements with the Product Owner (PO), prepared all ...
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Rescuing a Friend Besieged by Buzzwords
I have a tech background but a friend and coworker of mine was an English major (and former English teacher) and was hired on as a document editor/proofreader working with a team of tech writers. ...
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Scrum, standup meetings and a hard of hearing team member
I'm looking for recommendations, ideas and experiences of others on how to integrate a hard of hearing team member into a scrum/standup meeting process.
In this case, I'm asking for my own ...
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How do you deal with developer holidays on a KANBAN board?
One of our developers has gone on holiday with some tickets associated with them on the Kanban board.
We were faced with the following two options:
Keep the work in progress limit the same for that ...
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Scrum 1.0 vs MSF Agile 5.0 Process templates in TFS 2010
we're about to move from TFS server 2008 to TFS 2010 and I'm working on the details of the setup we want in 2010. We are using Scrum and we need to decide what Process Template to use in our new TFS ...
