Questions tagged [agile-project-management]

Agile project management is an alternative to traditional project management. **IMPORTANT NOTE:** Questions about project management are off-topic. Please ask on Project Management SE instead.

Agile project management is a response to the traditional way of project management focusing on continuous delivery of valuable software, welcome changing requirements, business people and developers working together, self-organizing teams, face-to-face conversations, sustainable development, continuous attention to technical excellence and simplicity.

From Wikipedia:

Agile management or agile project management is an iterative and incremental method of managing the design and build activities for engineering, information technology, and new product or service development projects in a highly flexible and interactive manner, for example agile software development. - from Wikipedia

Some useful tools for project management are:

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XP vs Traditional good project management

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…
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Would you use VersionOne also as issue-tracking system (aka BugZilla)

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…
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Confluence / JIRA :: What is a Filter Result Gadget?

I would like to create an Eisenhower Matrix in Confluence / JIRA. I taught found a practical solution on the ATLASSIAN Community : but unfortunately when I put it in place I cannot find a Filter Result Gadget in Confluence. Is anyone aware of how…
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What is the best practice for setting up TFS for agile development?

I'm thinking of giving each part of the agile lifecycle its own project (TFS project, not csproj) as per Microsoft's agile template. Is it possible to move items (like User Stories or Tasks) from one Project to another? Does the organization of…
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when choosing a project methodology such as xp, scrum, crystal which questions should be taken into consideration

Basically I have to choose a project methodology. The components are not big (we develop components mainly for SAP connecting), however the team is rather big , dislocated and and very unorganized. Besides how big is the team which other questions…
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How to measure project completeness?

Are there any formal/informal measures of comparing completed functionality vs initial requirements of a project. Specifically, my goal is to identify any missed requirements early on in a project. Having gone through many agile/scrum methodology…
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Agile-methodology in Project and Query-Driven methodology in Cassandra?

We want to start a new project. Our DB will be Cassandra; and we do our project in a scrum team, based on agile. My question is that, one of the most important issue is changes, that agile can handle this. Agile software development teams…
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Is there a way to automatically import issues from Jira into Taiga?

Just started using Taiga.io, and was wondering if there was a way to auto-import issues/stories so I don't have to manually rewrite them.
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Does anyone have experiance with Rally and Rational Team Concert, can you compare the two packages

My company has a rather extensive Rally implementation but I just heard a rumor that they are looking into moving to Rational Team Concert. Does anyone have any experience with both platforms? I am concerned that RTC is designed and implemented…
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JIRA vs. Service-Now for Software Project Management

The company that I'm working for is going to start using ServiceNow for its IT operations and call-center management and they are looking at its SDLC module for software project management. However, there is also a push (by me) for using…
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Queries in Agile process

How to determine the story point value in Agile methodology and determine the team velocity? In web search able to get the definition but not the actually process explanation.
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Getting percentage of completion of child and related work items of features in Azure DevOps

I am trying to get the percentage of completion of a feature based on the child work items related to the feature. I am very new to azure devops and I have no idea where to start. For example if I have feature with 5 related child work items, as…
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Agile release management tools

What is better tool for agile projects with respect to continuous deployment - Go from ThoughtWorks or TeamCity from JetBrains?
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Why do my issues disappear from Epic Swimlanes in JIRA?

I have issues that show up in my JIRA project's backlog page, but they disappear when my board is using Epic Swimlanes. If the board is configured to use any other swimlane option, these issues appear on the board.
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Find historical data in Azure DevOps for Work Items to define development metrics

In order to find some Agile Metrix of the project in Azure DevOps (ADO) from last month or from last 2 sprints, I was trying to Query data from ADO like: When a user story was committed and reach to done state? How long a developer took on a user…