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How can I get MS Project to display calendar days for duration rather than working days?
I've got start and end dates defined for activities in MS Project (latest Office 365 edition), and have set the calendar to "none" and tried both "ignore calendar" checked and ...
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Best Practices for Managing Projects with Multiple Phases in Jira?
In our organization, we use Jira for project management. Our issue hierarchy in Jira starts with "Request," followed by "Epic," "Story," and "Subtasks." We ...
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How can a SAFe team end a failing sprint early?
In Scrum, the team has the power to bring a sprint to a premature end if it becomes clear that the Sprint Goal cannot be achieved (or if it becomes irrelevant). How can a SAFe team do the same thing?
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How should we handle a 10-15 minute time-limited bug on a Scrumban board?
During planning, our Product Owner introduced a bug to the Developers and said, "Let's take this bug and see if we can fix it quickly. Otherwise, let's put it back on the backlog." I have ...
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Re-Organize Task IDs in MS Project
In MS Project Professional (Online Desktop Client), I made several tasks that are all occurring simultaneously, with nested tasks for each one. To prioritize and organize my task list in order of ...
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How should the Product Owner preserve the Agile/Scrum process when faced with top down corporate pressure?
I am a Product Owner / Scrum Master at a small company, my team consists of 4 developers + 1 QA engineer. As a team we handle 2 separate products with some shared products between them. My team has ...
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Find Overdue Dates for Each Resource within a Task that has Multiple Resources Assigned
I have projects that have multiple resources assigned to tasks. I created a macro to find overdue tasks, unfortunately, it only considers the task finish date, which, may be different for some of the ...
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How to Handle Competing Products or Offerings within the Same Company that Interferes with My Product Metrics?
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I am myself working as a machine learning engineer within a small team, without any product/project manager. So the idea is, I was supposed to deploy some machine learning models which enhance ...
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Agile Stories which are not Unblocked until Middle of Sprint
We are using Agile Two Week Sprints cycles. Sometimes we take on JIRA stories which are blocked, and will not be unblocked until the middle 1 week into of the sprint. Another person's code is complete,...
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Solutions to the dilemma of finding the client first or hiring the candidate first
I am unsure if this would be the correct place to put this question, but I didn't find any other better site on StackExchange.
I have a very new software services Startup company, already dealing with ...
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Can I take out tasks during a Sprint if I am replacing them with more important tasks that those unstarted tasks would be dependent on?
I have two tickets that have not yet started. A new ticket is being brought in that these tickets would be dependent on. Can I move them now into the next Sprint before this current Sprint has ...
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General project management exercise applied to recipe development
This question is not meant to be about food, but about general routines for project management.
I’m just starting to learn some things like OKRs, KPIs, Agile, Lean, iterative development, and so on. I’...
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In kanban As a product owner how to behave with a controlling customer?
We work in a software project with Kanban.
My role is a product owner/technical product owner.
The customer have always new requirements and one of the stakeholders is doing the tester role so he's ...
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Cognitive science and project management? [closed]
I’m new to this field. I’m starting to realize just how theoretical stuff like managing a business is.
I think it’s very cool that the lean business plan / lean startup model was actually derived from ...
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Do you set arbitrary deadlines in project management, or only save them for things with intrinsic, real deadlines?
I am trying to find completely new ways to manage my tasks, to do, goals, etc.
I am using Linear. Today, I started only writing ‘issues’ that are actual issues - ie, problems, or, pain points. Not ...
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