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Should development team leaders be line managers?
In a development team with a leader, should this leader be a line manager or is it better to separate the two roles?
How much admin/HR should a hands-on leader actually do before it becomes the ...
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What is the standard for evaluating team maturity?
There are ever so many references to the team's 'maturity' in the Agile/Lean related books and articles/blogs.
Using my common sense I think I can get the idea. I can see how my team has evolved over ...
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How do you get stakeholders who don't care engaged?
Background – We are a small group (three PMs reporting to a director) doing business improvement projects for a large company. Problems with our processes have been identified, in particular going ...
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How to balance conflicting leadership roles?
Much literature is dedicated to how a project manager should create an atmosphere for SMEs/team members to do their best work by clearing non-SME (subject matter expert)/non-project related work off ...
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How to Politely Refuse Changing Decisions
I just launched a game with a small virtual team of three (plus myself). It was quite successful. We made some decisions like using email as our primary communication medium, and iRC as our primary ...
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How do you make a project team take greater ownership and initiative within a project?
About 6 months ago I had to manage a project in a Government Organization where there was a strict hierarchical origination that was part of the corporate culture. No one would act with out being ...
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Leading Virtual Teams
I'm writing a paper on leading virtual teams.
Are there any certain leadership practices/theories/approaches that are unique to virtual teams? I've skimmed a few books on the topic, but I just ...
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Your opinion: Attention to Detail Skills and PM
Do you think attention to detail skills inhibit, enable, or does nothing for one's ability to be an effective project manager / leader? And why?
EDIT: @Angeline and Ian: What about the intrinsic ...
