Questions on estimating schedule, costs, etc. go here.
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How can I get inexperienced team members to meet project deadlines?
Recently, we have hired bunch of people who say they have little experience on technology. When I delegate jobs to them and ask for a timeline, they give unrealistic timelines of around 3-5 months.
I ...
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How to estimate cost to remove bug?
Couple of month before I committed one project to remove bug from that software, that project is not developed according to customer requirements. So, I have included some advanced function according ...
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What are Our Alternatives to Function Point Analysis for Estimation?
We've been using Function Point Analysis (FPA) estimation for new software development projects and medium sized changes that involves development efforts for code involving database entities as well ...
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Does the team estimate time for tasks or stories or both?
During the sprint planning meeting, does the team estimate time for each story, or the tasks that make up the story? Then which is tracked by the team/scrum master?
I assume the team estimates the ...
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Can story points remain constant between the initial estimate and later planning sessions?
Background
We have a bunch of epic stories.
We have a fixed term to do the project.
We have to get approval from a project board.
We don't know the velocity of the project team yet.
The ...
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When should I assign 0 and 0.5 story points to user stories in Scrum?
I am not a Scrum Master or a Ph.D. in math. How do stories with 0 and 0.5 points apply to stories on the Scrum board?
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The meaning of & Calculating Project Budget
I'm very new to the whole Project Management world, so this question may be at the beginners level, anywho:
What is the Budget Cost compared to the full Cost of the Project?, based on the research I ...
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Who should estimate user stories?
Should the product owner take part in estimating user stories?
Furthermore, in our team not all developer familiar with every part of the system. Client and server side is a usual separation. GUI ...
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How to sequence tasks given time estimates?
What are the recommended techniques to get the fastest completion time? Just an example, a project has 6 tasks:
task1 takes 1 day
task2 takes 2 days
task3 takes 3 days, requires both task1 and ...
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Should the Kanban CFD be weighted with estimates?
I am working in a Kanban process with a team the tries to estimate Cycle time, Lead time as well as completion time based on applying FIFO wherever possible on our queues.
Using the Cumulative Flow ...
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How to Estimate Scope, Cost and Budget for Developing a Phone App
I have some questions regarding how to handle bidding for a project, and how to structure the contract for the project.
How can I find the answers to the following questions:
How many people ...
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Quickly explain how to make estimation work to an external business stakeholder
Scenario: need to quickly explain how the estimation will work to an external business stakeholder; can't take more than few minutes really. The project area is web development.
P.S. There's no point ...
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How can we transition to Agile estimation based on complexity or effort of user stories?
We have being practicing agile development methodologies for a long time as a development company. Most of the time our product owners tries to have a map between story points and time. As a example, ...
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Schedule Control
Here's the scenario: You are building a schedule for a project that has a planned duration about three months. You are not concerned about project costs so you will not be doing EV. You are ...
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First sprint: Epics chosen instead of stories - should I re-estimate and when?
I am trying out Scrum on a small, one-person project. During my first sprint, I realized that all of the stories I've chosen are really epics and should be broken down into much smaller pieces. The ...
