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Is it sound project management practice to make software engineers fix bugs "off the clock"?

I work in a largish, multi-team software development shop that builds a vertical B2B solution suite for a highly regulated domain. We are trying to become more Agile; we are iterating better than we ...

scheduling resource-planning quality bugs  
user avatar asked by Larry Domonico Score of 61
user avatar answered by Vicki Laidler Score of 79

What does person-month mean in development time?

I have a question about communication channels that is talking about person-month but I don't understand what is a person-month. Does it mean this many persons? or this many months? Here is the full ...

estimation communication time-management communication-management  
user avatar asked by user1899082 Score of 13
user avatar answered by Sergey Kudryavtsev Score of 15

Sprint Backlog vs Product Backlog

I was always under impression that Sprint Backlog is part of Product Backlog -> it's impossible to add anything into Sprint Backlog without affecting Product Backlog However, according to one of the ...

scrum backlog sprint-backlog product  
user avatar asked by Steve V Score of 23
user avatar answered by Todd A. Jacobs Score of 26

in MSP 2010 How to change task duration units from weeks to days in bulk

I'm dealing with a large plan developed by different people and it has some durations in days and some in weeks, but I'd like to unify them all in days. what is the best way to do this in MS Project ...

ms-project scheduling ms-project-2010  
user avatar asked by Koushan Score of 1
user avatar answered by Rachel Hettinger Score of 1

What is the difference between requirement and scope?

Scope is divided into two categories: Product scope, which is the features and functions that characterize a product, service, or result, and; Project scope, which is all the work needed to deliver a ...

requirements product-management pmp scope  
user avatar asked by CS Lewis Score of 14
user avatar answered by MCW Score of 11

How to deal with unavoidable on-demand tasks in Scrum? Or should we even try?

I was put in charge of implementing Scrum in my Development Team. Unfortunately, the company I work with has a rather stale structure that does not go well with this framework. The team works on a ...

scrum agile  
user avatar asked by Lafsi Ironknuckles Score of 67
user avatar answered by WBW Score of 12

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 ...

estimation planning  
user avatar asked by Mchl Score of 102
user avatar answered by markbruns Score of 68
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