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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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How to relate change set with a user story or task using TFS 2013 and visual studio 2013

Hi trying to implement TFS for my team (18 members). I made two branches 1) Main branch 2) Dev branch We are using Agile. So there is a sprint every week. And on every Thursday i merge changes from Dev to main Branch. Each developer works on…
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Business Aspect of Agile

As I understand Agile is more or less like an open/flexible process. Meaning I anticipate and expect stakeholders' rapid changes. But how about the business aspect of this? What if the stakeholder has a specific budget for a product? What if their…
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How to account for Sprint Planning?

We are a small group of 3 developers working on a project, using Scrum. We are using 6 hrs/day/developer for capacity planning. My question is - if we are using 2 week Sprints and spend most of the day (5-6 hours) doing Sprint Planning, should we…
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Burndown chart: tasks, features or software metrics?

I'm developing an app for agile projects management, and I'm wondering what is the measure unit of a Burndown Chart... Wikipedia's article states that it measures the number of tasks remaining each period of time, but I've seen people using it with…
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How do I develop an application with a Layered Architecture using Agile methodologies?

In Domain Driven Design applied architectures, you should start developing domain model and test it. After a model occurred, then you can use the model objects in other layers like that Presentation Layer or Persistence Layer. My question is how to…
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Does a story need start and end date?

We are trying to implement Agile methodology in our development environment. Does a story require a start and end date OR is it purely applicable to a Sprint? -Alan-
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Need lightweight issue tracker for project

I need a lightweight issue tracker for a new project, with about 5 people on the project. Any recommendation? I read the two other threads on that topic, but it didn't seem satisfactory. I don't need to integrate with git. I just need something…
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How to create a Agile burn-up chart in Excel

Does anyone know of free Agile burn-up chart templates in excel or how to create a burn-up chart in excel? I find a lot of burn-down charts, but can't find instructions or templates for burn-up charts. Thanks
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Track increase effort in Sprint Backlog

We are following Agile development methodology. As a SCRUM master, I am maintaining the Sprint BackLog. I want to know what is the best practice to accommodate any increase in effort for a particular task in the middle of a project. For example, I…
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How to handle this story

I am not sure when you would break story into stories or into tasks. Let's say you have a story that talks about bringing down a service, and to do that you have to analyze and depreciate 5 api where each one takes one week How would you do that ?…
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How to structure teams, projects and specialties in JIRA

We have a department team section in JIRA setup as a project and I have been asked to create Kanban boards and set the section up ready to use but I'm not sure the best way to apply the work the department team is managing into JIRA. We want to have…
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User Stories keep being added to "General User Stories" despite being created under an use case

After drawing the following UC Diagram, I right click on an use case and send it to the backlog It appears as a new activity in the product backlog, like this: So I move it to the board and create a task and an epic underneath: Then I go on…
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Single Dev team working on multiple product backlogs (Products)

We have one Dev Team (Approx 20 Team members) currently working on 5 products with 5 product owners (one for each product). We are struggling with story prioritization between different products and lots of meetings for the same. Below are the two…
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Agile Test Plan/Test Cases, lightweight alternative to IEEE 829?

I'm building a web application and am starting to create a test plan/test cases and results. I've had a look at the IEEE 829 standard http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IEEE_829 for creating the above and it seems a bit overkill really for my needs. Just…
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Are there team leading problems at Google or other popular companies?

I'm working as a software engineer for a company that is not very big, about 120 employers. I was head hunted and since the company was quite popular, I started working here. We offer coupons and discounts online and run our site in three different…
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