Questions tagged [agile]
Use this tag for any questions that involve agile approaches from the perspective of a project manager, Scrum Master, agile coach, or similar role. Please note that "Agile" is not a framework or methodology, and this tag should NOT be used for questions about agile frameworks when a more suitable tag exists.
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Gameification - How would you gameify work in an Agile team?
During a recent open session at RallyON 2011 we talked about paradoxes in Agile. One of the items that came up during the conversation is when a high-performing team becomes so well greased that all ...
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In an agile process, should there be PMs in agile in the first place? Or Should they be replaced by a PO (Product Owner), or -may be- a Scrum Master?
Not to be confused with:
What role is there for a PM on an Agile project?
How does a Project Manager's job change when transitioning from waterfall to Agile?
In an agile process, where should ...
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Who is using Cynefin for their Agile adoption?
I've listened to some David Snowden podcasts on complexity theory and the Cynefin framework. It looks as though it could be powerful for guiding Agile adoptions.
Who has used Cynefin for this work? ...
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Who owns the issue of Agile team complacency?
I am really eager to hear different perspectives on team complacency about their Agile adoption. Is it the ScrumMaster's problem? The team's issue? The manager's fault? I can see so many complex webs ...
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What are you doing with Agile teams who no longer run retrospectives?
I have run into several teams who tell me that they no longer run iteration retrospectives: they were a waste of time and they weren't learning anything new. What is your answer to these teams? Should ...
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Open Source Agile Project tracker?
I have a small project I want to carry out.
I need an open source Project Tracker which could integrate with Subversion and has a Scrum oriented UI.
I'm trying to raise this as a client server on a ...
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eXtremely Distributed Software Development
In my previous post, Remote start up company software development. I have received a suggestion that XDSD will be useful in my case. The next question is how to do it?
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Risk Management - minimum data?
I'd like to come up with a "3x5 card risk board" which is essentially a movable dry-erase board where 3x5 sticky cards can be posted by the team and moved/reviewed daily/weekly as needed. (I use the ...
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Daily Scrum and flexible work time
Our company is in the process of introducing elements from Scrum in our working process. As we have flexible work time (not completely sure how to say it in English. People can come to work when they ...
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How does a Project Manager's job change when transitioning from waterfall to Agile?
When adopting Agile and moving away from waterfall what specifically changes in the day-to-day job duties of a PM? I'm interested especially in hearing from PMs who have made (or are in the process of ...
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How can you productively challenge corporate policies to investigate what can be changed?
Often, corporate policies governing a work-flow or project management processes are outdated or were decisions that were made arbitrarily. Sometimes there is a reason behind them. WHat are the best ...
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What are the benefits of reducing the size of scope or no. of story points in an iteration?
In convincing management of the benefits of working on smaller scopes in more iterations. Have you seen this make a difference in speed, quality or ability to adapt to change in requirements?
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How do you kick-off new Agile teams?
I'm curious what others are doing with regard to getting teams up and running with Agile in a sustainable way. What do you emphasize first (practices, principle, process framework)? Or is there no one ...
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Cancel or change a sprint
The Scrum method defines that the content of a sprint cannot be changed. But can a sprint be cancelled while it's done? I mean, it's unlikely to happen and probably shows really bad planning skills by ...
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How long should an Agile Sprint be?
I'm currently the PM on a project that is scheduled to run for about 14 months. The current sprint structure is 4 weeks of development; week 5 allows us to show the progress to the client, deploy it ...
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Involve graphic designer in daily Scrum meetings
As I explained in a previous question, our company is willing to introduce some elements of the Scrum method in our working process.
We have a in-house graphic designer, who is attached to the ...
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Partially introduce Scrum into a team
The CEO of our small company (14) asked me to introduce some elements of Scrum into the working process of our development team.
Problem is: the piece he would like to see introduced is not really ...
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How is agile different from the way in-house developers have always worked?
in-house in this context means developers working in a company department, where software is used only by that company (defined due to subtleties in translation)
I've been confused by this for a ...
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Scrum, Agile, Kanban looking for 'for dummies' type of information [closed]
I'm sure I'm not alone in this. I have heard and read a lot of snippets of information about this topic and I've formed my own understanding - probably not the best way to assess the value or try to ...
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Starting to learn Project Management, which book or path to follow ? [closed]
As I started to search to learn more about project management on Google, I was overwhelmed by all the certification links.
All I want to learn is about the various software (especially web ...
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What would I need to do to transition from a team coach / organizational change agent to a PM?
A lot of the skills I've picked up as a Lean / Agile coach seem to be relevant to project management, and I've started getting offers of PM work from agencies. Since I coach PMs, I feel like I ought ...
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Different ways of running Retrospectives
I'm about to facilitate another Retrospective with my team. I'd love to hear what different types of Retrospectives you do, to prevent falling into a routine. How do you improve such meetings to keep ...
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What common techniques do Kanban teams use to make commitments to other teams in their organization?
When a team is first adopting kanban, they do not typically have reliable numbers for cycle time, and will struggle to make commitments based on a Service Level Agreement. What commitment techniques ...
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Agile methodologies such as Scrum in non-software development projects
Even though Scrum was originally suggested for managing product development projects, its use has focused on the management of software development projects.
None of the project management teams I ...
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How to implement SCRUM without forgeting the four principles of the agile manifesto on the way?
Don't the four agile principles get a bit lost in the middle of all the SCRUM process? How can this be avoided? How to promote these four principles over the process that is imposed? How to make the ...
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Is it possible to manage an agile project with international team members?
Some of the hallmarks of agile projects work best with a co-located team, perhaps all working out of the same bullpen where face to face interaction is the norm. In fact, some of the principles ...
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How can a team working on research based items work in an Agile project?
My R&D organization is following an Agile (Scrum) development methodology. One of the development teams is working mostly on items that are really problematic in terms of the certainty during the ...
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Can metaphors in popular culture help with explaining agile or waterfall to clients?
After reading this blog post that suggests that the Death Star was an agile project I was wondering if using metaphors is a good way of describing methodologies in a slightly fun way.
'Movie x ...
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Is the PM's required knowledge in agile environment changing nowadays?
We see software developers these days that do not know what does it mean not to use TDD or other practices of XP, project leaders that never worked in a non-agile environment, etc.
These people don't ...
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How do you convince a client to use Agile Methods?
Here's the thing: In agile, client has very important role to fulfill - if they aren't involved, agile loses much of its value.
How do you convince clients to change the way they run projects, ...
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Scrum+Kanban SaaS tool [closed]
Do you want to use such tool?
It will be some tool with product backlog, sprint backlogs, Scrum/Kanban dashboard...
Me and my partners want to develop this.
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Where to Find a Desktop Kanban board application? [closed]
I have been looking for a week now, all over the net for a simple desktop based kanban management system. I work in a distributed team, but my company won't accept to use an exterior webapp like ...
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What about Prince2, FDD & Agile Development (with XP)?
Do you have any criticisms?
I've been having a hard time fitting it all together but I finally understand which parts go where and the need for me to customize to a certain degree to make them fit.
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How to actually empower self-organized team to remove its member?
One of the parts of self-organization in agile (but this is not necessarily related only to agile) is that we look at the team's performance and focus on supporting the team doing their job the best ...
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Should bugs be treated as stories or as tasks?
If you're using scrum you should know that there is a clear difference between tasks and stories. A story is something that is valuable to user. A task is a step to produce that value to user.
So, ...
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Using Spreadsheet for Backlog - Dependencies and Priority
I'm currently using a Google Spreadsheet to manage my product backlog. It has a list of stories, each with an identifier, feature it belongs to, story points, and the sprint that it's assigned to. It ...
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How to organize sprints during the user acceptance tests phase?
What is the suggested approach to sprints organization during the tests phase? Lets assume that we have finished development sprints, internal tests (analysts & developers) are over. Application ...
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How to approach project management using both Agile and Prince2?
I am new to Project management. My current position is helping to project manage a small software team. I have been giving the opportunity to attend the PRINCE2 course which from my reading I would be ...
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Can Scrum Sprint duration change from 4 weeks to 2 weeks during the project?
Does it makes sense to adjust Sprint duration during the project?
Consider a 10 months project for a web portal, requirements are a little obscure right now, so I expect that at the beginning (first ...
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How should the Product Owner prioritize the backlog?
Should the Product Owner prioritize the backlog side-by-side with the customer?
Must this step be done during the Sprint Planning Meeting, or could it be done before the meeting?
Is the meeting ...
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Should the customer developers be part of our scrum team?
If during a sprint some task depends on customer development, should the customer developers considered as part of the team?
At the sprint planning meeting should these developer attend to share how ...
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Improving your Scrum Sprint!
I know there are lots of talks and articles on agile and scrum. But I would like to know how to improve your scrum sprint for a new and small team. We are looking for a sprint length of 3 weeks. I ...
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Integrating Critical Chain into Scrum/Agile Practices
I am primarily a software developer and software development manager. I use practices from Scrum and Agile development to manage my project. This means:
Incremental releases every two weeks
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How long until a team can "become" agile on the job? [closed]
Last year I led a project for a research institute. Requirements had been in progress over the entire project, and I had lot of trouble when planning, budgeting and providing other estimates.
Now, in ...
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Are Gantt diagrams compatible with Agile methods?
If they are, is it simple to use them with theses methods? Have you some use cases to present?
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What role is there for a PM on an Agile project?
Back before agile was everywhere, having a PM on all but the smaller projects was considered essential. Now, only the largest projects have people assigned to just in a PM capacity.
I guess I have ...
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Is it possible to use Agile methodologies in a fixed price contract?
Most clients understand a fixed price contract to be a fix of scope, budget and delivery date.
These would appear on the surface to be against the principals of Agile. So should Agile be recommended ...
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What is the difference between Scrum and XP?
Everything is in the title: What is the difference between Scrum and eXtreme Programming? Is it possible to have a simple but explicit explanation?
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What information should be stored on Kanban Cards?
I am curious to the information and level of detail that people are storing on Kanban cards?
Or beter yet some templates of how they are put together.
For reference here is a description of a Kanban ...
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