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Introducing Agile development after traditional project inception

About a year and a half ago, I entered a workplace that claimed to do Agile development. What I learned was that this place has adopted several agile practices (such as daily standups, sprint ...
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How to represent an agile project to people focused on waterfall [closed]

Our team has been asked to represent our development efforts in a project plan. No one is unhappy with our work or questioning our ability to deliver, we are just participating in an IT cattle call ...
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How much effort should be put in each part of a waterfall project?

Where waterfall commonly includes: Requirements Functional design Technical design Build Test Review (Deploy) And iterations across this list. If I forgot a step, let me know.
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Is there any circumstance in which a strict waterfall project can succeed when requirements are not clearly defined?

I can not see how a software project can make any meaningful progress under a waterfall methodology if the requirements cannot be clearly stated from the outset. Am I missing anything?
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Applying agile methodologies in a fast moving support environment

Do any agile methodologies have a place in the following setting: Small web development team, working on a mixture of frontend, backend, design work, with a mixture of new projects, inherited bad ...
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What phases of a traditional waterfall project should Scrum replace?

My team and I are using Scrum to manage software development projects. In my company there has been a move towards more structure in all IT projects using a waterfall methodology. This is fine by me ...
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How agile methodologies can be applied in a typical " services " company?

My company is a custom software services company for external clientes, which means our typical project is one in which the contract already states the full budget of the project. Our typical ...
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How to represent days and time graphically for a project I have done

How to represent the days and hours of different tasks(design, development, testing) of a software project in a graphical way. I tried using a Gantt chart for it, but it does not represent the ...
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Why are burn down and burn up charts mostly used in agile projects?

Burn down and burn up charts are used in agile projects to visualize the progress of a sprint. The same type of chart could also be applied to entire projects, not only to a single sprint. Thus they ...
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6 week fixed timeline for build phase - waterfall?

Context: I am talking about a new program from Microsoft for Microsoft Teams based app development called "SLATE". This program requires 6 weeks fixed timeline for the "Build" ...
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