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Is it fine to pick stories in the current sprint which have external dependency?
In Scrum we look to create product increments each Sprint, not simply to do work. The direct solution to your question from the Scrum Guide is that you should have cross-functional team. That is, all ...
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Can a single user story be associated with multiple epics?
You cannot have an SSO API without underlying user management, that's a dependency, you need to do user management first.
Your story belongs to user management and should be done in that epic.
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Inter team dependencies in one story
A lot can be done using mocks and stubs.
For example, the team could work out what the API will look like first and then rapidly build a stub API that returns fake data.
This helps to separate out ...
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How should we deal with interdependent tasks in Scrum?
I think the question you're asking points more to a problem with how you split your stories/tasks/work items/whatever, and how they're written. Rather than trying to solve the symptoms of this issue, ...
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How should we deal with interdependent tasks in Scrum?
TL;DR
Your Scrum implementation suffers from a number of framework anti-patterns that are detailed below in the Analysis section. These process issues can generally be resolved through:
Adhering to ...
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How should I deal with common dependencies when estimating stories in Scrum?
(Too large for a comment)
I disagree with two of your remarks under point 1:
"The infra itself has no customer value." So, get rid of the rigid requirement that "These stories are ...
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A term meaning "this phase can go ahead"?
I would say "blocked" for the first one and one of "unblocked", "ready" or "to do" for the second one.
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What kind of a dependency that between these customer and project manager?
If Activity B cannot begin before Activity A is complete, it's a finish-start dependency, in PM-speak.
Alternatively, if both activities have to start at the same time (pretty rare), it's a start-...
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Inter team dependencies in one story
For estimation, you want to estimate at the Product Backlog Item level. If you're using User Stories, the User Story is typically the Product Backlog Item. And when estimating, you want to account for ...
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How to handle a potential failure of an outsourced project?
Might be too broad to be answered, but I'll give it a crack.
First, by
In the meantime a former decision maker is still with one foot in
and
I am in charge of decision making now
I assume you ...
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A term meaning "this phase can go ahead"?
Optimize Terminology for Clarity of Communications
You are describing phase gates. There isn’t a universally-accepted set of terms for your desired project states, but each phase should have a set of ...
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How to handle a part-time kanban team member
Having a part time team member is probably a bad idea.
When something needs doing that can't be done in the slice of their time you've been allocated, that is waste. When you have to train and ...
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Diagram for mapping project dependencies or relationships
What you are looking for is a Visual Portfolio Map
Here is a good article that describes what a Visual Portfolio Map is and why you need one: How to Manage Interdependencies in a Project Portfolio.
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Can a single user story be associated with multiple epics?
The connection between an epic and user stories is one-to-many, therefore one user story can belong to only one epic. You can have the user story in the first epic and make the second epic dependent ...
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Planning backwards in MS Project
You can use standard FS relations for predecessors, and set task constraint type 'As late as possible':
1 milestone - prerequisites: 2,3
2 Activity A - 4
3 Activity B - 4
4 Activity C
You should set ...
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Optimizing kanban workflow due to lagging dependency
The new workflow would work if it reduces the load on the designer.
I'm not sure I understand the full picture, but you say:
Due to the designer not having enough time, the team started to work on a ...
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How should I deal with common dependencies when estimating stories in Scrum?
This problem isn't unique to Scrum. It's quite common across the Agile methods, which call for frequent delivery of valuable, working software to customers and users. I've come across two ways to ...
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What if an item requires additional work from an earlier stage in Kanban?
You Have More Choices Than You Think
We can't move items backward in Kanban.
Of course you can! Whether or not you should will depend on what "additional work" means within your current ...
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Can a single user story be associated with multiple epics?
TL; DR
This dependency-based planning is a common feature of project management in general, and isn't limited just to agile methodologies. However, it seems very applicable to the agile planning ...
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Diagram for mapping project dependencies or relationships
Here's the materials:
A board where you can stick pins
Index cards for stories
String & pins
Process:
Break down your requirements to user stories (vertical slices through your tech stack that ...
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How to handle a potential failure of an outsourced project?
You need to get VISIBILITY into what's happening there.
Right now you seem to be mostly blind to what's going on and you are forced to trust this external provider. A 3 months estimate turned into a ...
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A term meaning "this phase can go ahead"?
This is probably a better fit for English Language & Usage than pmse.
From a project management standpoint, it doesn't really matter as long as you pick a term and stick with it.
For the first: "...
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How to warn if blocking tickets are not in a sprint
Some things to think about based on what I've observed from your question:
While defining stories we had two stories one larger one that would allow some infrastructure to be made and a smaller ...
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Inter team dependencies in one story
When doing estimate, should each part be estimated separately? How to calculate "total" estimate?
All the teams participate in the same Sprint Planning, discuss all the aspect of the User ...
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Optimizing kanban workflow due to lagging dependency
You're acting as if your bottleneck is something bad and you should rid of it. This may be true, but I'd like to list other options. There are 3 approaches to dealing with constraints:
Improve their ...
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How to identify if some functions have dependencies from tech/developing side in agile development as a business analyst?
Speaking as a PMP who had trained new project managers, I will gently suggest it is not a business analyst's job to identify technical dependencies. As the word "business" in the job title ...
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Blockers, impediments & dependencies
This is more of a team or organizational culture thing. In healthy teams and organizations, words like "blocker", "impediment", and "dependency" do not erode ...
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Blockers, impediments & dependencies
TL;DR
Neither Scrum nor the Agile Manifesto currently uses the word "blockers." However, this term is often seen in Kanban or other queue-based systems where work-in-progress (WIP) limits ...
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Good RAID Log examples & usage
RAID logs are not usually maintained when working with Scrum. The reasons for this include:
We release frequently, which often reduces risk
Frequent releases also reduce the need for assumptions
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How to warn if blocking tickets are not in a sprint
I assume this dependency in jira is with a link between the issues such as "is blocked by"
A possible Solution in jira would be:
Your board is fed by a filter. You can edit this filter to exclude ...
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