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How does a team (new to product and domain) estimates user stories of a ten year old product
I am a scrum master for one of the products in a product development company. Our team, including me, operates from India. However my product owner is in USA. We are working on a feature development ...
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Why use iterations in Scrum?
I am a Scrum Master in a 7 person team. We currently use one-week iterations for our sprints.
I find that sprint planning overhead is huge (2 hours each week for entire team), and not nearly as ...
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How long does it take to upgrade from Project Server 2007 to Project Server 2010? [closed]
If I had to upgrade from an existing Project Server 2007 to 2010 version, how many days can it take? Assuming the following, is a 1 or 2 day estimate reasonable?
Current Project Server 2007 consists ...
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How should a team handle disagreements about story-point estimates in Scrum?
During estimation, the Product Owner presents a user story that seems clear to a team that usually knows their strengths and weaknesses, and that is not hostile. What should the Scrum Master do if the ...
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Changing backlog story point estimates mid way through a release
Background: We are mid-way through a development which was estimated for a customer on a fixed price contract. To come up with the estimate we built a backlog by trying to list all user stories and ...
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Which metrics can help estimate the size of a project?
I am putting together a project sizing tool to help understand what artifacts are required for projects (E.G., a simple project may not require a project charter, whilst a complex project may require ...
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Accuracy of Estimates
Aclear16, on an answer from another question, brought up the notion of accuracy of estimates. In my view, this notion is nonsensical; however, we talk about this often in PM circles.
In an ...
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What 'economic drivers' should be part of our “software business case”?
So we need to perform a feasibility study of one of our initiatives and need to present it to the 'higher ups' - It needs to incorporate numbers (estimates) both from the perspective of tangibles and ...
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Elicitating Requirements As A Client
Background: I am a computer science student and am currently employed as a programmer for a health institution. Recently we discovered the need for a project which is beyond a 1-man job (I am their ...
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Making a budget and time plan for a software project
Let's assume that we are starting a project, but have no previous experience of budgeting a software project.
What should the guys who will work on that project do to make a decent budget planing?
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Advice for a young programmer on creating programming estimates
I'm a young programmer who has recently gotten a job at a company that is small but loves programming estimates. Since giving good estimates has been a problem for me in the past I'm happy about this ...
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How to estimate amount of work/man hours for an unfamiliar task?
Sooner or later we come across a task in our project, with which we are totally unfamiliar ('we' as in PM, but also possibly the staff assigned to do this particular task).
How can we estimate ...
