Questions related to project team and/or a member(s) of the team involved in the project.
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Tool for yearly for overview - with filtering by task and person [closed]
I have ~10 projects containing ~10 categories of tasks.
I would like a tool that can give me a yearly overview of this - either based on the projects or based on the type of task.
For example: "view ...
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Should project management and business analysis be seperate roles and teams?
We are doing a review or several teams and in certain cases the PM and BA roles are combined into one and in other cases they are seperated out into completely independent teams. I am looking at this ...
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How to Estimate Scope, Cost and Budget for Developing a Phone App
I have some questions regarding how to handle bidding for a project, and how to structure the contract for the project.
How can I find the answers to the following questions:
How many people ...
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Product Owner depending too much on the team
I am a Scrum Master for two different teams. The product owner of one of the teams left recently, so we have a new product owner. The team is fairly experienced with the product. Since the product ...
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How many project managers can be supported by a project administrator? [closed]
I am establishing a PMO with between 10 - 15 projects, each with a budget between $5 - 15MM and a duration of 2 - 3 years.
I have been granted headcount for enough senior PMs. My leadership team has ...
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4answers
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How to effectively combine different (project and non-project) activities in Kanban?
In our company, we're currently trying to get started with Kanban. When discussing about how to handle the different work items / user stories / tasks, this question came up:
How do you ...
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3answers
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What should a project manager do to on-board remote team members efficiently?
What can I do as a project manager to ensure new team members are quickly brought up to speed within the project team?
The team is multidisciplinary, having mobile software engineers, UI & UX ...
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5answers
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Managing team distractions (chit chat)
I work with a team of developers who are talented but often distract each other with chit-chat. They can waste hours of the day with these 20-30 minute, non-project related jam sessions. Since I am PM ...
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In an Agile environment, how should a developer update team members and managers when there's no “visible” progress?
A developer is working on a research project that involves working with new technologies. The concepts are also new to the developer, and the developer is working on building a product on top of the ...
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1answer
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What is the best way to get a UX/UI team to adopt standards?
We're a team of around 4 UI Developers, 1 Designer and 2 UX. We work on a series of ongoing projects and every month or so, we start a new small project from scratch. All projects are owned by the ...
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4answers
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How to keep a requirements gathering discussion focused on business needs and not technical details?
I'm certain that acquiring the business requirements from the clients and providing the work items for the developer teams are always a headache for experienced business analysts as well.
A few days ...
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6answers
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What skills do I need to beat my competitor to be a good project manager for my team?
I've learnt project management and I got a project by my lecturer requesting me to form a team. And yes, I have a team now. I just want to be the project manager so badly! My performance has been ...
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4answers
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Right Resources For First Time Managers
My question is more of a management than a technical one. My boss gave me my first team project. I'm used to writing code by myself. This project will require that I manage a team including myself and ...
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Badges for project team members for motivation
Stack Exchange is using nice way to motivate contribution through Badges. I was thinking of implementing this same idea for my project team members. Badges will be awarded to project team members in ...
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5answers
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What is the best way to divide a development team?
I lead a medium sized team of developers whose skill, age & time in the company vary for quite a bit. Some of the youngest in the team are considered profficient while some of the most seniors ...
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6answers
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How to balance Teamwork and Babble?
I have sensed conflict in an organization, which works like this:
They want to encourage teamwork and good personal relationships
They want discuss work-related personal matters and design decisions ...
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4answers
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How to deal with a challenging sponsor?
A couple of related issues:
My sponsor is visionary but fails to communicate the vision clearly enough to allow implementation. This leads to a lot of unnecessary rework.
My sponsor communicates ...
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5answers
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What's the difference between a project lead and a team lead
I'm a developer and I'm working in a small IT firm. I want to know what are common differences between a project lead and a team lead.
My background: in our company we have only lead programmers and ...
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3answers
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How to improve communication problem facing in corporate culture
I am experiencing difficulties to convey my message in debating topics due to interruption by others(Mostly in office related issues) . My nature is like, I carefully listen others when others talk ...
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3answers
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How can I organize an on demand Support Team for a customer-facing project?
I want to manage a team which developers themselves now support the software produced. Developers are the only people who know how to fix the problems.
The problem is that when something goes wrong ...
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2answers
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Creating synopses of existing movies - hire a team, or crowdsource?
To create a movie database website for a regional language industry, I would like to know whats the best way to acquire/build a large collection of movie synopses for my site.
Currently I have thought ...
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3answers
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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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7answers
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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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6answers
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Allowing PMs to grade/rate developers
We're trying to introduce some new/updated ways to quantify developer productivity, and we want to include our Project Managers' thoughts. What do you think about allowing PMs to "grade" or apply ...
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6answers
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How to suggest project improvements in a rigid / narrow-minded environment?
Briefing:
I'm a new employee at a small company that has a lot of talent but seems to have gotten by with ad-hoc processes simply because they've had mostly small projects and repeat customers who ...
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2answers
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To measure performance of software developer, which KPI should I use?
I would like to measure performance of my developers using KPI (Key Performance Indicators). Which KPI would best help me distinguish between good and "needs improvement" programmers?
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7answers
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Time Tracking in basecamp no longer supported. What are some alternatives? [closed]
I work for a small web development company and for a few years now we have managed our time tracking through basecamp.
With the recent news that basecamp will no longer be supporting time tracking in ...
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4answers
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Is it possible for someone to be a member of two Scrum teams, and how can that be made to work most effectively?
We have an organization where we're moving to two scrum teams working on different parts of our our backlog. I understand the idea that each team should be a complete cross-functional unit, and ...
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Would you hire a project manager with no programmer background in an IT environment?
As a team member, or as a programmer, would you accept a boss like that? If he wants to learn and he is interested by programming and what a programmer does? Can somebody with not programming ...
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2answers
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How should an organization divide user stories between scrum teams?
We have a development team that works on multiple "products". We create a unified user-stories backlog, and effectively treat the multiple products as different feature areas of the same virtual big ...
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Which Collaboration Software Do You Use? [closed]
We are looking for a new Collaboration-Software. Especially for collaboration, monitoring, reporting, project management, bugtracking, time management, agile software etc.
So I am interested in your ...
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10answers
870 views
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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6answers
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How do you minimize the impact of a politically necessary “poisonous” team member?
I am currently part of a project team evaluating the products of a vendor to develop an integrated solution to several of our legacy systems.
I am not the project manager on this particular project, ...
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6answers
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How to work with freelancers in a proper way?
Note: At first I wrongly posted this question to the original Stackoverflow site
Let's say that for a software project I have:
a complete project plan;
a software requirements specification;
a ...
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7answers
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How to go about taking over a failing project?
I work for a pretty small company employing less than 150 people, for the last 35 years this company has never had any sort of project managers and every project that they have had has always come ...
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4answers
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What if project manager is appreciating an undeserving team member?
I am working as a Senior Software Engineer. I am also a module lead and am leading a team of 2.
One of the guys is very abrasive and shows a reprehensible and arrogant attitude towards the fellow ...
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4answers
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What techniques are useful when factoring in the likelihood that one or more members of the team may take leave during a project?
What's the best way of planning for the possibility that a key member(s) of the team might want to take leave at some point during a project?
I understand one solution is to buffer the project ...
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3answers
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Do you know any companies that rotate developers between different projects on regular basis?
I work for a smallish outsourcing company of about 30 people, nearly all of them developers. At any given moment we have 6-9 projects in development for various clients. Most of the projects are ...
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6answers
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How to deal with project managers who like to overload you with work?
I have a project manager who always think we are able to handle more workload.
How to handle this kind of project manager?
He also always ask us what are we doing and depiste we telling him the ...
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4answers
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Are there successful stories of couples developing application together?
My girlfriend an I are currently both IT consultants.
I've been thinking whether there have been any successful cases of couples developing applications that actually have made it big.
Anyone can ...
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3answers
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How to share project plans with the team
This may look a bit weird, but I stuck with the problem of sharing the project plans with team.
The main purpose I try to achieve (though not sure if it's right) is that everyone should know what to ...
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10answers
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Should a group of three students working on a big programming project have a leader?
We often have group projects (CSCI grad school), and I'd like us to be efficient. Should we explicitly vote for a leader? What are tips for making sure that it isn't only one person doing everything?
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What makes an effective email status report? Why?
In project management, what criteria makes an effective email status report, and how often should a status report be sent to be useful?
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5answers
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How to informally find a good programmer?
Management has opened a new position on our 8-10 person team of C/C++ developers.
As a team member, I've got a vested interest us actually finding quality candidates.
Can anyone suggest some ...
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4answers
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How to create project momentum and then to sustain it over a long period?
I have been on a relatively small project team (2-3 members) and found it difficult to sustain project momentum. The initial momentum was easily created when everyone is enthusiastic and excited about ...
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4answers
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Who should be trained when introducing Agile?
Should all team members be formally trained when introducing Agile methods into a company, or is it sufficient to train only a handful of key people? If the latter, who should they be?
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2answers
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Transitioning into an Agile Project
We will be working on an exciting new project that slightly blurs the line of PM and Consultancy. This organization are eager to introduce agile for supporting their existing applications, but they ...
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6answers
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How to Introduce innovative change in organizational processes when upper management defends status quo
I have been involved in a couple of project for the past year, and I have been lucky to work with the brilliant team. I noticed that in each of these project there seem to be one or two persons who ...
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8answers
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Is a Developer Getting Involved in Project Management a Good Idea?
As a developer working on a team with a project manager, is it valuable for the team and/or the project manager to have team members who are aware of project management and for them to share their ...
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2answers
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Important Information for a Developer to Know About Project Management
As a developer as part of a team comprising of a variety of roles e.g. project manager technical lead, business analyst, quality assurance etc, what are the most important things for a developer to be ...
