Project Management Weekly Newsletter - Tuesday, December 30, 2014

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Greatest hits from previous weeks: How long should an Agile Sprint be? I'm currently the PM on a project that is scheduled to run for about 14 months. The current sprint structure is 4 weeks of development; week 5 allows us to show the progress to the client, deploy it ... agile scrum software-development sprint   asked by amelvin 20 votes answered by Bartosz Rakowski 16 votes How can we stop developers from working on stories that are not planned into the current sprint? ORIGINAL QUESTION We carefully plan out a sprint and decide which stories should be worked on however some developers are working on stuff outside of this planned work. This is undermining the whole ... scrum agile discipline   asked by rdjs 9 votes answered by CodeGnome 8 votes Which Scrum certification provider is most widely recognized or accepted? I am planning to go for Scrum Master certification, and while researching the certification providers, I could not clearly make up my mind about which one was most widely accepted. There are two ... scrum certification scrummaster   asked by Incognito 5 votes answered by Piotr Uryga 5 votes Can (and should) Agile be used for Infrastructure projects? Is it possible to use agile methods for large IT infrastructure projects? I am working on a large project where the development team uses agile methods, while the infrastructure (which is where I am ... agile methodology infrastructure   asked by Iain9688 10 votes answered by Joel Bancroft-Connors 7 votes Definition of Project Success How do you define a successful project? Is success contingent on the overall value that the product or service yielded for the organization? If the project was successfully delivered, that is the ... definition   asked by David Espina 14 votes answered by Angeline 20 votes PMP Experience Documentation I am looking to take the PMP exam in a year or so, and see that one of the requirements is "at least three years of project management experience, with 4,500 hours leading and directing projects." ... pmp documentation   asked by Sean Earp 15 votes answered by ashes999 11 votes "Start to finish" dependency example? Can you give me an example of a Start to Finish dependency? Wikipedia describes it like this: Start to finish (SF) A SF B = B can't finish before A starts tasks dependencies   asked by HappyPM 6 votes answered by Iain9688 12 votes

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