Can someone with Kanban experience tell me how Kanban and Scrum differ? What are the pro's and con's of each of the different project management methodologies? Kanban seems to be getting a lot of press these days. I don't want to miss the hottest new way of tracking my teams failures (...and successes). Responses @S. Lott - What par...
Hi, I have been in the IT industry for 10 years now but have worked in "traditionally" managed project teams (both well managed and badly managed ones). I have heard of the "new" scrum or XP type of project management and yearned to be part of one (as s/w folks we always like anything new I guess) but have not got an opportunity. My q...
As we are a small company, I work as both a project manager and developer. The specifications I create for clients contain a number of elements used to describe and define the project, including user stories alongside any other elements I feel need to be included to define the project (e.g. wireframes, userflows, sitemaps etc.) to the c...
Currently, my company utilizes agile as it's development principal. I was approached by my boss to determine some methodology for determining the amount of work a project manger does on a given project in flight. To be honest, I can't really think of anything fool proof. I guess the best question is how do we assess how busy, on a day t...
I'm new to Scrum and Agile but wanted to know if I could use this methodology/practice for like a general "Project Management Solution" not just development? Pros/Cons/Suggestions? Any FREE software available to help out with the process? Small user group, about 10 Thanks! ...
One recurring problem we have in projects is the fact that the stake holders only start looking properly into the delivered software until the near the final release date even though we deploy the sprint result into the test environment every time and demo from it and keep reminding them that it's really important to get their feedback d...
We are currently working out how long our iterations should be*. I have two questions: What factors should be considered in determining the iteration (e.g. "story/feature complexity", number of team members, and so on)? What resources exist with guidelines for iteration planning (books, magazine articles, URLs)? *We == my boss. ...
Hello, Within our Agile / Scrum team there is the idea to start using VersionOne as the project planning tool. My question is, can it also handle the issues (defects; new feature requests; improvements; patches) that come in? Meaning can it also replace a issue-tracking system like BugZilla? In a issue tracking system, many people (deve...
We are trying to convert an organization to Agile software development (TDD, Continuous integration, pair programming and code reviews, Scrum, Refactoring). One "selling point" that someone proposed is to advise people from a career point of view that Agile software development, whether today, tomorrow or some point in the future, will...
I am trying to establish the merits of the way development tasks are assigned or allocated. Are there any preferences as to whether developers choose tasks on a purely voluntary basis or are they just assigned the next task in the list? Does this depend on developer preference or do any of the methodologies give guidelines in this regard...
So I have a customer with a potential big project that (ofcourse) does not know what they want exactly. The size of this project can be more that 4 or 5 months so that is a big risk. Thats why I want to sell a timebox. For me that takes away the risk of spending 10 months instead of 5 for the same price. The problem is that I can't co...
To me "Agile" methodology is a common-sense oriented approach and one that should likely be adopted for most software projects. I find that while a lot of Middle Tier Developers and Front End developers find it a very sensible project delivery model, plenty of Database developers (and good ones) seem to be totally against it. They are ve...
Our company is currently using Redmine, it's great for general tasks / troubleshooting (operation) but for development, I would like to adopt a more agile tool... and I found it in pivotaltracker. I googled but couldn't find any info., so that gave me a good excuse to try StackOverflow. Has anyone done it? I'm thinking of using Pivota...
We are a small team of 5 people (Product Owner, Product Owner Assistant, and 3 Developers) and I am currently moving us to become an Agile team using scrum to manage the project. I have been reading Agile Project Management with scrum, the help documentation for Rally, and various blogs to try and bring myself up to speed on Agile softwa...
If I need to fix something cosmetic in my application (e.g. fixing the color of an element), should this be marked as a bug or as a feature in Pivotal Tracker? Note: even though it's cosmetic, that doesn't mean that this fix will be trivial. ...
How to conclude whether Scrum model fits for a company or not? How long will it take to see the effect for a company of size 100 (employees)? Will it effect in company's profit directly? How to calculate profit or loss of a company after agile implementation? ...
Are there good videos / presentations / papers / books that detail or demonstrate the idea of "the agile workflow for the manager / facilitator" who needs to be in ongoing contact with the client, the design team and oversee the implementation? Not just the single project workflow, but a workflow that involves multiple, possibly simulta...
I wanted to ask the experts what will be the best choice of bug tracking saas for our company. We need a very user-friendly bug tracking service that will contain basic project management functionality. The company that I work in develops and designs websites, and in most cases our issues need to be shown visually. Please help. [Upda...
Hi, I'm working in a company where we have to report our time daily. We have to said what type of task we were doing during the day. Do you know some software which could help us to make such daily summary for me? Maybe there is automatic tool which can monitor the time which I'm spending in each application? i mean something like res...