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SCRUM approach to Graphic Design office
I've been recently asked to teach SCRUM to a graphic design office. Why? Because they
want to turn their services into quick deliverable products, and not lose focus on the
current project they're ...
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How can a manager dispel speculation of favoritism among employees?
The obvious action would be to not play favorites from the get-go. However, if members of a team voluntarily communicate with their manager at different frequencies/levels, soon enough there will be a ...
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How to confront a supervisor about the high risk of failure of his/her project?
In the event a manager takes on a particularly ambitious project, it is quite possible s/he has done so with a lack of understanding of the level of expertise or time needed to complete the task. It's ...
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How to add value beyond collecting tasks and their dates?
As a project manager I catalogue a group's tasks, definitions, dependencies, milestones, resources, and similar other elements of a project. The managers use this to report up, estimate project ...
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What tools do you use for creating an offer and project management?
What tools do you use for the whole chain of talking to a customer, creating an offer, doing project planing and actually creating a project within a software so you have a stable work basis?
I am ...
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What Information to have on project planning sticky notes?
I've been assigned as PM to an ongoing project that had a few issues when I started. It looks like these have been resolved but the team will have to review and update the project plan to address ...
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Project management tool that bubbles up from employee to CEO
Few days ago, I encountered a new tool that in essence makes people write 5-minute reports every week/month, of which their managers send the important things up to their managers and so on and so ...
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Should Product Owner be present on all retrospectives?
As a scrum master I will join new development team.
Some additional information about environment:
The team works iteratively, but they don't do any retrospectives,
Previous scrum master (I'd ...
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How to have the time a task would take and duration for a task in MS Project 2010?
Within my projects I would like to have two different notions of time for a task:
How many hours of actual work the task is expected to take
A time frame for the task that the above hours should be ...
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Should a client/customer be in the room or participating during planning poker?
From my understanding, planning poker involves the development team or the executors of the project and the project manager or the project owner. I recently had a debate with our project manager on ...
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Tool suggestion to manage multiple projects / people working on several projects at once?
This is the situation in our office and I would need a recommendation which tool to you to facilitate our work. At the moments, things are slowly slipping out of my hands.
What we have:
many ...
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Project schedule reviews
As a PMO project coach, I am often asked to review the time schedule of projects. Some are detailed schedules in MS Project, some are high level (capacity) planning in a spreadsheet. There are ...
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How do I change hours-per-day without affecting existing tasks?
I have a list of tasks, each measured in days. The hours-per-day setting on the project is incorrect. When I update it, the tasks change accordingly.
My problem is that it's only the hours-per-day ...
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Project Management and sales activities
Recently my company insists that the PM should be strongly engaged in sales activities like writing offers, negotiating with clients, supervising the sales process.
Sometimes it happens that the PM ...
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Should Summary Tasks or Detail Tasks be Predecessors?
When setting up a project, what are the advantages and disadvantages to using Summary Tasks vs Detail tasks as predecessors?
If it matters, I am experimenting with MS Project 2010 as a tool.
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How should I organise my podcast project?
I want to organise a podcast with some friends, with a gradual release schedule. We're about 6 people who meet up personally, but we can't get productive enough in our meetups, so we decided to use ...
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How to handle CEO “priority” requests that affect existing client deadlines?
Our team(s) have agreed upon timelines both by the team themselves and the clients, including a bit of extra padding in case of any mistakes.
However, the CEO of the company consistently sends ...
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Do I Need to Match-up the Functional Spec with the Spec in the Contract
This maybe a bit of a noob question to you client facing PM's out there, but I'm a PM with a pre-sales background, so please bear with me.
I'm used to working on projects where you have an initial ...
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How to export the Network Diagram View to an image in Microsoft Project 2010
Is there a way to export the Network Diagram View in Microsoft Project 2010 to an image format including ALL the image contents, not just what's rendered in the screen? I've tried the Task, Copy, Copy ...
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Is there any online or free software to draw CPM?
is there any online or free tool for drawing Critical Path in CPM method?
I already calculated all ES, EF, LS, LF and other parameters, now I'm looking for a tool to draw it.
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How can short-term product development co-exist with long-term innovation projects?
We have some product teams for improving/maintaining the current line of products; but there are also "innovation teams" which try to plan/shape/design the next-generation products. The former teams ...
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Any Good Online Graduate Certificates in Project Management? [closed]
I'm looking for online project management certificates (Software Industry). I found one with Stanford and the University of Illinois - Springfield. As you can tell, I'm looking for graduate ...
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Am I eligible to take up PMP [closed]
I am working in that IT service industry, with 5.6 years of experience. I was involved in many projects, of very small duration (less then 2 months), even though i understand the basics of project ...
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Project management software for a small team with shifting priorities
We have a small team of developers (currently 3, possibly 4 soon) trying to run all the IT tasks for a retail/ecommerce company. We have a point-of-sale system we built in-house, as well as our main ...
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40 work hours a week is said to be the limit for productiveness, does it include open-source?
I keep seeing articles about the uselessness of working more than 40 hours a week, this one for example but I remember I read the same on Forbes and others. Does this estimate include the time spent ...
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As a Scrum Master, what sort of administrative tasks should I do and what should the team do?
I have a 'do it myself or leave it for the team' dillema for some sort of tasks.
Let me introduce an example, to be clear what I mean: there is a team, which uses jira* as a task container. Every ...
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Communication/Handoff Checklists
I have been having many issues getting bug/tasks provided with the correct information in them. And other points where a task is handed off along the workflow require the recipient to get certain ...
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How do I count Internal Logical Files (ILF) and External Inputs (EI) for a dynamic form entry page?
Assuming I have an applicant information entry screen, the number and types of fields on which can be defined by the system administrator, how do I go about counting the number of Internal Logical ...
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How to encourage people to use a physical board?
Recently, we introduced a physical board to visualise work progress in one of our projects. In the first few iteration the team was very excited about it and used the board very often. We saw true ...
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Greenhopper/Project hybrid
We are going forward with a hybrid Jira/Greenhopper/Project PM system for our next release. Design and post-development tasks are being tracked in Project and the most of the development cycle is ...
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How can I handle a client's client who is upset with bugs but refuses to use any kind of Project Management?
I am a programming/engineering freelancer working as a consultant for a mid-sized corporation. This mid-sized corporation has many clients, including a very large financial company (one of the top 10 ...
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Can you use the Software Equation to get LOC output?
The Software Equation is:
E is effort in man months or years.
P is the "productivity parameter."
B is the "special skills factor."
t is length of project measured in months or years.
Now, I'm ...
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Resource Calendars in Microsoft Project 2003
I have developers in Quebec and in Ontario, and each province has different holidays. In MS Project 2003, I selected Tools/Working Time and created two calendars called Ontario and Quebec and filled ...
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Project & BAU Pipeline/Portfolio tools
We have a team with around 4 to 5 concurrent major projects, 10 minor projects and about the same number of BAU projects.
Are there any tools that you use to manage and visualise your departments ...
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How to motivate young adults to pursue socially-conscious jobs
Not sure if this is the right forum, but I've read some survey data which suggests that young adults are no longer interested in tackling some of the toughest global problems (such as inequality and ...
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What are non-functional quantitative requirements?
I got the following question for homework but I am confused on what is being asked. I'm not looking for you to give me the answers I am just wondering what non-functional quantitative requirements ...
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What should be ideal ratio of developers and testers?
I am in the process of hiring resources for testing team. I have none currently.
What should be the number of testers if my developers are 10?
Is there any rule of thumb which specifies how many ...
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Have you used any Project Management software for Bloggers or News Media Website?
We are three partners and have also hired couple of interns.
Our project is a article based website. Or more simply its a blog or News Media Website.
We would like to discuss on article topics or ...
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How to implement CMMI RSKM SP 1.1 Determine Risk Sources and Categories in TFS?
TFS's CMMI for Process Improvement process template has a Word template called RiskCategoriesandSources.dot for registering risk sources and categories but there aren't any fields in the Risk Work ...
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Quick win or long term sustainability?
My project has to deliver middleware components that will support a large, complex system development spanning multiple phases. My phase is due to implement in 6 weeks, with future phases being ...
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what to do when one team member doesn't value collaboration?
I've just finished running a retrospective of a team I doesn't manage usually (they don't have a dedicated ScrumMaster), and it appears that there is a conflict of opinions in the team (which is ...
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Link requirements within PDF or HTML files to increase traceability
Do you know of any tool (or plugin for such tool) with following features:
Manage Requirements (like Redmine, DOORS, Borland Caliber and many more...)
Link Requirements with parts of a PDF or HTML ...
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Word 2007 Templating
I have a set of project documentation I have to make for every project, big or small. They are very thorough, and only certain sections are not required for each project. What I'm interested in is ...
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How is a group of deliverables called?
They are not projects, as one project contains more groups of deliverables. Is milestone a correct term?
I hope the chart below explains it a little.
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ROWE - a buzzword or working strategy?
Recently I've heard about ROWE (Results-Only Work Environment), but I am unable to find any descriptive material about it's rules and principles of such approach.
Do you know (and could share) any ...
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is there any MS Excel template to create WBS? [closed]
is there any template to create list, tree or table style of Work Breakdown Structure using MS excel?
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Improve performance of feature X - should that be a new user story or something else?
We have implemented and closed user story X but found out later that the implementation is too slow and we need to improve performance. I think it was a mistake not to have acceptance criteria for ...
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How do you visualize projects progress?
What reports do you use to track progress of several projects? In particular, what progress visualization techniques do you use?
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Do you include “communication” aspects in your formal agreements with clients?
We all know that in management the communication with the client (product owner or sponsor) is one of the key factors. It's good when both sides understand the communication aspect but from time to ...
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What should I do in my weekly updates to project plans
Project plans don't update themselves, sadly. So I'm trying to figure out what I need to do to keep them up to date. I can update work complete as tasks get done, but what should I be doing to ...
