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What happens when your product is not stable close to release date ? – Part 2




In the previous post in this series (Making the right decisions), I talked about some of the decisions that the senior management team has to make when they are near the release of a major product, and the balancing act that they need to make while making the right decision (in a situation where the [...]



Having a decisive Product Manager for the project, and what if this does not happen ..




In many cases, especially for small projects / new teams, the Product Manager is typically somebody who is also not very experienced. The idea is that the Product Managers who are highly skilled or with a lot of relevant experience are assigned to the teams that are doing more important work. But this can sometimes [...]



Scrum – Provides you a good quick feedback on accuracy of estimates for tasks ..




One of the major dependencies for a successful project schedule is in terms of the accuracy of estimates versus the reality. In short, you want to measure the difference between the time estimate for a project (or a task inside the project), and the actual effort needed. For such a measurement, you would want to [...]



How to define tasks for a User Story without spending a fair amount of time on these ?




We seem to find ourselves running into a fundamental problem during out Sprint planning meetings. Some of it is from our older methods, but partially it also seems to be a problem with the way we are using our Scrum processes. Consider the process before getting into Scrum. We would have a list of features [...]