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Estimating the complexity of a task/story with subtasks
When using story points, a task that has been estimated as 1 is the most "trivial"/simple in terms of complexity and definitely fits in a sprint.
Lets assume that a task of complexity 13 and ...
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Can we divide the story points across team members?
Lets assume that within a sprint a team of 4 developers delivers 28 story points.
Is it correct to state that each developer delivers 7 story points per sprint and use this information to base what 2 ...
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As a product Owner can I tell a developer to seek help before they submit pull request in JIRA?
My organization somewhat implemented Agile but assigned Product Owners to also be the Scrum Master. In one of my scrum meetings, one of the developers said they did not have experience in a certain ...
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Do you reuse the same Kanban cards when handing off a requirement for implementation?
I'm thinking of creating some work item types where the Kanban cards represent a high-level software requirement, a low-level software requirement, and another for system level requirements. When the ...
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PM responsibilities
I'm new in Project management and have a feeling that the tech group is trying to expand my responsibilities. so, before I talk with them I want to be ensured. Here is a question: Is the PM ...
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How do I copy tasks between MS Project files with different Working Time Calendars?
I am attempting to copy one sub-contractor's programme into a master programme (two separate files) in MS Project. The two MS Project files have different working time calendars, with the Master ...
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MS Project: How to auto-level tasks across multiple resources
I have a project that requires a large team of personnel, with multiples of each role (e.g. 3x quality engineers, 4x manufacturing engineers, 10x operators etc). The roles are fully generic and ...
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After Office update, macros are blocked in MS Project
I have MS Project 2019 Pro standalone desktop version. I regularly write and run macros for myself and other users. Two days ago I updated Office to version 2408 (Build 17928.20114). Today I tried to ...
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How do you streamline the budget process in Agile?
When you are doing Agile, I heard you need to also budget in an Agile way. Apparently you need to move away from project-based budget to a streamlined budget process?
How?
There seems to be two ways.
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What exactly is the role of a business analyst in proposing solutions to business problems?
I am learning business analysis theory and I am confused about the extent to which the BA proposes the solution to the business problem.
I understand that business analysis is generally defined as the ...
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How can a project manager create a plan without having specifications for the product defined at the beginning of the project?
In handling my first real project as a project manager, I need to create a project plan to produce a particular product. However, the specifications are not being defined up front.
As a part of the ...
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What role can scrum master have/take when product owners have different opinions?
Here's a specific example that our two product owners are working out right now:
PO-1 wants to be more 'purist', saying "this is how the UI should be done", while PO-2 says "we have to ...
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Equivalent to Azure Devops "Area Path" in Jira
My company is looking to transition to Jira from Azure Devops for work planning/sprints.
In Azure Devops I currently use the Area Path field to denote which business area a story was for.
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User ...
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Responsibility for spec - tech team vs product team
I work as a Lead dev in a tech startup whose product is a B2B SaaS application.
Late last year, in a moment of crisis for the company, my team was asked to build the central feature of the app in a ...
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Creating Unique User Stories across the team, how to map the dates in Scrum since multiple dates cannot be added for same item
Consider I have 3 User stories, now would like to group them for development & QA.
If going ahead with same user stories which have adequate information how to add the due dates since it varies ...
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