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How to keep track of all the goals of a large project?
I would recommend to apply a Scrum project approach here.
You should define your minimum viable product.
You create a larger backlog which contains all project ideas (or user stories).
You organise ...
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How can we simulate hard deadline?
I'm sorry, but you are trying to solve the wrong problem. Your team isn't delivering much because your management has no expectations from them to do otherwise.
There is a saying in my country that ...
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How to keep track of all the goals of a large project?
Mathias' answer is solid. I personally would not go to a full Scrum for this, based on it being a single person project and work in progress is the more critical thing going on here. So I'd stick with ...
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Project Objectives vs Stakeholder Needs
Project Objectives are typically higher level than individual Stakeholder Requirements. They usually come first, created up-front in the Project Initiation phase before you've delved in to individual ...
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What is the difference between Smart Goals and Deliverables?
A deliverable is a contractual item, whether it is a formal contract between a buyer and seller or simply a promise of a product or service delivery. A goal can become a deliverable by simply putting ...
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Setting a sprint goal when the sprint contains multiple products' stories
To answer your question well, it's important to first address why teams have sprint goals. The purpose of the sprint goal is to focus effort on outcome (the new or improved capability being developed) ...
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What KPI's or OKR's do you use for individual software engineers?
TL; DR- Tie individual KPIs/OKRs to developmental goals unrelated to the product/project they are working on.
My advice is based on a successful implementation one of my own agile mentors did and I ...
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Is it ok to make developer responsible for one of sprint goals?
No
Scrum upholds the following principles and recommendations that go against this practice.
Team responsibility - The team commits to the sprint goal, the individual members commit to the team.
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Is it ok to make developer responsible for one of sprint goals?
The Scrum institute definition of Accountability in a team is:
The Scrum Team as a whole is responsible to deliver the committed
delivery in time and with the defined quality. A good result or a
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Are story points achieved a good individual quarterly goal?
Your question already contains a lot of answers :)
However, I have reservations (... as evidenced by the fact that I'm asking a question on Stack Exchange... :) ). Completing stories is generally a ...
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What is the difference between Smart Goals and Deliverables?
SMART and WBS/deliverables are two different analytical frameworks. It is like asking whether my daughter is a female or a relative.
SMART is (IMO) a quality standard for goals (SMART goals are ...
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Goals and objectives vs OKRs
Objectives are Goals; Key Results are Metrics
The term OKR is attributed to Andy Grove (High Output Management. Grove, Andrew. Random House, 1983.). In an OKR, the objective is the expected (or ...
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How can we simulate hard deadline?
I agree with others that you're trying to solve the wrong problem, although I do also understand why you reached for "fake deadline" as a tool. It sounds like the underlying problem you're ...
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How to set quarterly goals for an unknown amount of work?
I recommend holding one or two rounds of diagnosis before finalizing the quarterly goals.
So basically you can dedicate two or four weeks to just diagnose the source of the performance issues you ...
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Is it ok to make developer responsible for one of sprint goals?
is it ok to make a developer responsible for a goal in Scrum? Does it break any of Scrum rules?
The rules are defined in The Scrum Guide.
"They are self-organizing. No one (not even the Scrum ...
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Setting a sprint goal when the sprint contains multiple products' stories
Don't bother finding the right goal from the stories you picked. It's a symptom, not a problem.
It works the other way around: the sprint goal is not an end itself, it's a story picking tool. The ...
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Setting a sprint goal when the sprint contains multiple products' stories
Assuming that different parts of the team will each work on only some of the projects, how about simply defining numerous sub-goals and assigning them individually to those parts of he overall team. ...
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Are story points achieved a good individual quarterly goal?
I would say no and I would recommend against using them.
What can cause a discrepancies in story points # for individual devs in a team?
Someone works mostly on bugs/spikes, so no story points for ...
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How can we simulate hard deadline?
If you're working on an ongoing effort, it isn't a project. Projects have delivery dates/completion dates, and the PM's job is to constantly maintain shared awareness on the completion date. If there ...
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How to involve the whole team in setting quarterly objectives (OKRs)?
First of all: great idea with the workshop! And thumbs up for OKRs!
Ad your question: I've made good experiences with having the people who have the needed information plus your team in one room for ...
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How to set quarterly goals for an unknown amount of work?
Since I couldn't accurately forecast the amount of work involved in making the performance improvements I focused my goals primarily around the process of making performance improvements.
So, even if ...
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Indicator of achievements for performance goals
Those are some huge and vague goals. I've been using the S.M.A.R.T. approach for years and I wouldn't know where to start with some of those. I can try to give an example of one though to see if that ...
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Are story points achieved a good individual quarterly goal?
You don't specifically mention Agile, but there are hints of it in there. Even if that is not the operational mode, the following points are still applicable.
One of the benefits of properly ...
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Setting a sprint goal when the sprint contains multiple products' stories
You may want to consider changing the way you bring work in to sprints. Is it possible to prioritise the work so that the team focuses on one product at a time?
This brings a number of benefits:
A ...
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How to keep track of all the goals of a large project?
I'm going to offer an old school answer - you need a work breakdown structure.
Define the end product - what will done look like? This is 100% of the work. Aside: I would advise you to do this even ...
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