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Keeping Tasks Organized

Currently where I am employed (as a developer) we have two programs to track tasks. One tool (Ace Project) for larger project that groups several tasks below it, allows for some attachments, and commenting. And is supposed to be used to plan…
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How to manage risk of most technical client contact going on leave

I'm 6 weeks into a 15 week website/ web development project with a non-profit organisation. With this client I deal with the internal IT manager a key administrative assistant an in-house designer the CEO The internal IT manager is the most…
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Multi-task or concentrate on one project at a time?

I am a freelancer with +15 years of experience in the multimedia design field and sometimes I struggle with the following: I have several projects, and most of the time I can do them in a sort of multi-tasking way (like I do parts of project A,…
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Change requests processing best practice

as usual question about change requests management. The situation is the following: Client asked to develop a new software solution based on the existing one. There must be the same functions + some enhancements. This is firm fixed price project…
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Project Scoping Document

What type of details typically go into a project scoping document? Also, how much detail should you go into? Since, the requirements are still being decided upon? Update: The project scoping document usually is provided to the person doing the…
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Adding user stories to nearly complete features?

I am a new PM. My company uses Rally for project management. I'm not too sure if this is a standard across platforms, but in Rally you can assign user stories to a parent feature. My team has been working through features for our upcoming release.…
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Driving process change within a company that only has recently viewed its software as a competitive advantage

I have recently changed roles ( 4+ years ) as a product manager within an organization with previous years spent as a business analyst within a mid-sized agile software development firm and I have gone back to my development roots and have taken a…
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How does a Scrum Team handle traditional BA responsibilities?

Linked Question This question was proposed by the participants of the discussion of the previous, more general question. Question The business analyst's work often implies a kind of waterfall-ish or upfront-design approach. Because of this, I…
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How should I deal with common dependencies when estimating stories in Scrum?

There's something that has always bothered me with Scrum. Hopefully I can get some insight here. With Scrum, we try to break the backlog down in vertical slices. Let's say stories A and B. These stories are supposed to be customer oriented and…
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If we cannot complete all tasks in a sprint

This is an online question on the Certified Scrum Master (CSM) v7.0 (CSM-001). However, I don't understand why the answer is A instead of D: You are the Scrum Master. The Sprint will complete in two days. Each day of the Sprint is equivalent to 8…
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How does Planning Poker work in a cross-functional team?

Let's suppose we have a common Scrum team comprised of a frontend developer (one or two), backend developer (one or two), tester, designer. Let's further suppose that we need to estimate a User Story using Planning Poker. How do we do this? The…
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Using burndown chart to estimate the completion date of a Scrum project

I sometimes read about using the burndown chart to estimate the date when the Scrum project ends. It's often described like this: estimate all features of the product and sum them up (TOTAL_STORY_POINTS) run a few sprints to get team's…
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How do I increase morale of a team member?

A team member no longer feels their contribution makes an impact on the overall company. How should I motivate this person?
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When should you do sprint planning?

We tend to do our retrospective on the final day of the sprint and have found that by the end of an hour and a half, launching into a planning session is not ideal at all. When do you hold your sprint planning meeting to walk through the newest…
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Refactoring in Agile development

In an app development project, the full scope of the project was not considered in the app design. So, the frequent refactoring of codes to accommodate changes is negatively impacting the project delivery timeline, which has become necessary during…
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