Category Archives: Agile

6 Tips of Tracking Time Spent by the Employee on an Agile Project

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time tracking of Scrum team members, it outsourcingFor each Scrum master and for the whole agile team the most important is the done selected backlogs for the sprint, but not time spent on coffee breaks or browsing the internet. And it’s the known fact, that in agile development the most essential issue is how much time is left to finish the user story, but not how much time was spent by each of the developer.

You should ask yourself whether you need the metrics of time at all. Why are you tracking time? One reasonable answer that comes to my mind can be to bill a Client: to know how much time was spent, to pay overtimes. If you can suggest more, I’ll appreciate your feedback.

Nevertheless there are some tips of tracking time:

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A Software Tool or a Whiteboard to Manage Distributed IT Teams?

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The problem of choosing the right tool for managing your time, work, your team is very vital, as the rightly chosen tool may help you to:

1) safe your time;
2) safe time of your team or your boss (Product Owner if we speak about Scrum);
3) add visibility of your work or the team’s performance;
4) stay updated on the current project’s status and so on.

Some tool-makers state that their tools help to speed up time to market and a lot of other important things that can be measured in cash equivalent.

How to speed up time to market

How to speed up time to market

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What is the Best Agile Tool for Managing Distributed Teams? (The Poll’s Results)

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We created a poll to find the answer to the question:

“What Agile Tool to Choose When Your Have a Remote Team?”.

To see the results, click the link below (it is a pdf-document):

What_is_the_best_Agile_tool_poll’s results (2011)

You are free to post this pdf-document whenever you want but don’t forget to add  the link to our blog.

We also added the results of the poll below for those who prefers reading without any clicks:

Terminology

(In order to be sure that we think about the same things)

Remote team vs distributed team

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POLL: the Best Agile Tool for Distributed Team

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We, a team of Ainstainer Group, believe when managing distributed teams the choice of the right tool is vital.

So, we decided to create a new poll via SurveyMonkey.

We have already closed this poll. We will post the poll’s results 21.04.2011

Follow the link to see the results of this poll

To participate just click and scroll down.

Create your free online surveys with SurveyMonkey, the world’s leading questionnaire tool.

Thank you very much for your answers.

We will write an article with analysis of the results.

We will send you the results/link to our article when the results are ready.

You can also see the results of our Facebook’s poll. Once answered a question, you will see them.

Why we decided to create this poll? And what problems have occurred with Facebook?

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