Ashok Ramachandran

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I am the Software Project Manager and ScrumMaster (Certified) at Hanley Wood, Washington DC. Hanley Wood is The No. 1 Media Company Covering Construction. Hanley Wood Business Media publishes more than 20 magazines including Builder, Architect and Remodeling. I manage four global Scrum teams - two in Hyderabad, India, one in Montevideo, Uruguay and one in Washington DC, USA.

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37 Answers

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5	How do you explain the value of a PM to a client?
4	Proof that badly scheduled meetings hurt productivity
4	How to reduce planning meeting time involving several teams?
4	Why does Pivotal Tracker discourage estimating points for bugs and chores?
4	In an agile consultancy, is the Client the Product Owner?

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+10	Why does Pivotal Tracker discourage estimating points for bugs and chores?
+5	What is a good format for Sprint retrospectives?
+25	Using a Project resource pool, must that pool file be open, to make changes in sharer plans?
+5	In Scrum, how to estimate research stories?

9 Questions

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7	How to keep WIP down with swarming in Agile/Scrum teams?
6	In our Agile/Scrum team, should we move or split incomplete stories?
5	Can we have zero point stories?
3	Need a good example for what a self-organizing team looks like
3	In Scrum, should we have a Customer Acceptance Testing (CAT) stage by the Product Owner?

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24 scrum × 20	7 reporting × 3
14 agile × 8	6 roles × 4
11 estimating × 8	5 ms-project × 6
11 planning × 5	5 stakeholders × 2
11 communication × 4	5 clients