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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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Why is the Fibonacci series used in agile planning poker?

When estimating the relative size of user stories in agile software development the members of the team are supposed to estimate the size of a user story as being 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, ... . So the estimated values should resemble the Fibonacci series.…
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Redmine vs Chiliproject

I'm in the process of switching from an experimental installation of Redmine to a company wide use. We do use some plugins that are mandatory for us such as redmine_backlog and redmine_gitosis (unmaintained, several forks exists). While redmine…
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Most suitable agile project management tool

I have been working with managing agile teams for quite some time. Now I'm at a company that no matter how hard I push for the fact that face-to-face is the way to go and that excel sheets works to get us going. But the company sees the…
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Agile scrum development tool?

I recently started using "Jira" with the "GreenHopper" plugin. However, I don't feel like this is really doing what I want. I saw a cool feature in "Scrumworks pro" where you can run the app as a desktop application. My requirements therefore…
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Agile process: Difference about backlog and todo

I'm using ZenHub for task management. In ZenHub, I see 5 columns as displayed below: So, I decided to move all the issues to Backlog. After that, I have a question: what are differences between To Do and In Progress ? Because all tasks in Backlog…
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What are the application development tools in AiOps?

I know the implementation structure of DevOps. I am reviewing and implementing AiOps.What are the practical tools in this field? I want to research AI in CICD and ContinuesFeedback tools?
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User stories for functional requirements

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…
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How to write User Stories for technical implementation details?

I'm trying to work in a more organised way and started adopting user stories. I think I have misunderstanding of how should I use user stories for technical stuff. Let's say I'm coding an app that gives me the ranking of my site for a certain…
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Assessment of a project manager's volume of work - what is a good methodology?

Currently, my company utilizes agile as its 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…
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TFS setup for one small team and multiple parallel projects

We have a five-member development team and will be building multiple internal projects in parallel. Upon researching, I find it is best to create one team project, even for our situation, correct? If so, would you please recommend how to set up…
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What is the best way to manage a user story that spans accross sprints?

We are following Agile SCRUM methodology in the project and we came accross a huge user story that spans accross 2 sprints. How do we report this item in the burn down chart? Which sprint backlog should this user story belong to?
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Agile issue and feature tracker software

I'm looking for the "best" agile-friendly feature and defect tracking software. Currently, we are using fogbugz, but this is not terribly useful for teams following an agile methodology as far as I can tell. There are better tools for this, such…
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Using JIRA Agile for Scrum (from a Rally user background)

I have been using Rally for Project Management in my previous organization, and now I have to use Jira Agile for the same job in the new organization. I am having hard time understanding the way JIRA Agile works, and could not get a hang of the tool…
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Mapping all Use Case flows of action to User Stories

I'm attempting to write my requirements out as User Stories. Moving from a waterfall world, I am much more familiar with Use Cases. One of the things I like about Use Cases is each interaction with the system is well-defined, as well as all the…
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How to work scrum into an environment with multiple applications with daily client demands

I've read up on scrum and the company I work for has started using this. I find that laying out tasks really helps everyone to see what needs to be done and what to work on. One of the issues we're running into, is that we're just "trying out"…
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