Questions tagged [task-management]
This tag is intended to enclose all tickets related to methods or softwares used to manage team's tasks.
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What are some good guidelines for descriptions in Jira tasks?
I have seen in many projects how product owners just assign tasks that have only a title but an empty description. Somehow work still gets done, but oftentimes, there is lots of ambiguity. People will ...
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Estimating the complexity of a task/story with subtasks
When using story points, a task that has been estimated as 1 is the most "trivial"/simple in terms of complexity and definitely fits in a sprint.
Lets assume that a task of complexity 13 and ...
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Cognitive science and project management? [closed]
I’m new to this field. I’m starting to realize just how theoretical stuff like managing a business is.
I think it’s very cool that the lean business plan / lean startup model was actually derived from ...
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MS Project Date Auto Update when Adding Predecessors
I am creating and updating an integrated multi-project/vedor MS Project task tracker with the sole purpose of finding date issues, dependency issues, etc., so that we can align vendors in future ...
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Subtasks vs Tasks for Sprint backlog
My question relates specifically to project management using Jira by Atlassian.
My product backlog mostly consists of user stories, since this is the most useful to my non-technical product owner.
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MS Project: How to plan tasks that have no particular order?
I am involved in software development and I have a total of 35 features that need to be implemented in our software. Each feature has been estimated for the time it will take, and there are 5 ...
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Can I track tickets from one project in another?
I am the QA lead for a company that has multiple teams with their own projects in Jira. Is there a way I could track Jira tickets from for example, the engineering board or bug board in the QA board ...
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4 people, 4 unrelated Tasks. Each person gets one task, based on preferences
Looking for the fairest way to distribute tasks based on preferences. Was thinking of preferential voting, but not sure how to generalize that for multiple people.
Here is an example of how a person ...
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Determining which domain a problem falls into in the Cynefin framework falls into which domain itself?
The Cynefin framework is a tool to help leaders determine which 'domain' a problem falls into which they seek to solve.
Proponents of the framework argue that the approach towards solving a problem ...
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Showing interdependency of items in backlog
In cases where we have two stories dependent on the same task, is there a way to show the dependency besides adding a comment in the stories? Additionally, in cases with multiple dependencies that are ...
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Breaking down a story to subtasks
When using Jira, we can create a ticket with subtasks. I can see the subtasks being moved along the columns, but I don't understand the proper way to handle the parent task. It can be confusing if ...
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How does project management manage people with differing abilities?
I once worked on an application programming project with three main tasks:
Build a system for analyzing a user situation
Integration with another piece of software
Organize the main architecture of ...
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MS Project Task Dependencies
Can anyone recommend a "clean" way to set up these three tasks? Thanks!
Task A
Task B
Task C - Both Task A and Task B are predecessors of Task C as follows:
Task C to start when Task A ...
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Fogbugz for project management
I dont have too much experience with project management with Fogbugz and everything I find about it is serveral years old. I've mostly worked with Azure DevOps. Most of my experience with DevOps is as ...
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Can I link or have formulas between task times?
Is it possible to use a formula to get information from "TASK A" as an input "work" in task B?
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Task A is fixed duration of 2 weeks. I have assigned some resources and the total work they do ...
