Questions tagged [organizational-structure]
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How can we handle urgent work items defined by leadership at the end of a Sprint?
The Change Management Situation
My Scrum Team received 2 urgent and critical tickets from top management at the end of the Sprint with 3 days left. The tickets were related to a feature that was to be ...
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What are the first steps while restructuring a project? [closed]
As a part of a course I am currently taking at university, we were given a report of an imaginary project that is currently going wrong and was put on hold.
While reading the report and analysing some ...
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In companies practicing Agile and Scrum, how do development, marketing and sales people work together?
Scrum suggests cross-functionl teams, does it mean that marketing specialists and sales specialist also should work in the same team as software development engineers and QA engineers?
What are the ...
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Should a designer or a devops be a member of a Scrum team?
Usually such specialists as a designer or a devops-engineer are not permanently required (as opposed to developers and QA-engineers) to perform development activities (they are engaged in some tasks ...
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Project management with MS Teams and MS Sharepoint in a large enterprise
Before the MS Teams "era", documents for (larger) projects existed as folder structures on huge storages as "master system for documentation".
Today, you have got many Sharepoint ...
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How to structure subtasks that are partially complete and to be worked on later for another dependency
I can explain this question better with an analogy.
Suppose I am a uni student and I have a maths tutorial. For this tutorial, there is attendance, a tutorial sheet and some other things. For this ...
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Should feature teams be specialized by business stream?
For context, The company provides a subscription for goods to both B2C and B2B markets. The B2B's distinctive aspects is that client require billing to be a lot more detailed, they oversee a lot more ...
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How to scale Agile in IT Service company (not product based)
I work for a company which is trying to understand how to scale Agile. We are an IT Service company, we don't work on one product, we develop many IT projects at the same time for our customers and we ...
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Splitting dev team to allow for parallel processes
A little background:
We are a team that consists of 7-8 people and is a fast growing startup. Currently, everyone is on the same team with the common morning meeting, retros etc. Morning meetings ...
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Who does a product owner typically report to?
I'm trying to understand better how scrum teams fit into actual organizations.
I understand that Scrum is only concerned with the structure of the scrum team - I'm just looking for some examples here ...
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Can two different roles be responsible for the same task in RACI matrix?
Can two different roles be responsible for the same task in the RACI matrix?
If Yes, how do you ensure that there will be no conflict between those two roles when it comes to actual task delivery?
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Who should manage a project that is used to build a product?
Using Scrum, the Project Manager role doesn't exist. The Scrum Team can build a product by itself. Essentially, the Project Manager's tasks are more or less divided between the Product Owner and the ...
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Advice on Agile team structure
I’m looking for a little advice…. let me start at the beginning….
My Organisation is very traditional and our organisation structure a little strange. Our web team are part of the marketing ...
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Should we arrange multiple agile sub-teams along customer groups or along software components?
The question's context is a company that creates a software product that consists of several functional components (you could also call them sub-products) and sells the product to a rather small ...
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Project Management department organisation in large company - How to integrate skill silos?
Our company is facing a challenge regarding the project management organisation. We already have our own working group on this topic but I'd like to get some external opinions in. It's a very specific ...
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Is a company with Tech Leads a matrix organization?
Employees of my company are grouped into pools depending on technical skills (e.g. front-end devs, back-end devs, QA engineers, etc). For each pool there's a Tech Lead who doesn't manage projects (or ...
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How to break down a product or organization in feature teams
I am already read a ton of referencing about feature teams, squads and growth hacking structure.. but imo, there is still a lack of concrete examples and how to break down a product/organization in ...
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How to sync work in small software team
We are a small software team with 4 members:
one Software Architect that gathers requirements and writes Requirements document and Specifications document
one Designer that designs visual wireframes ...
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Where is the place for project managers in agile
A typical company that worked with project management with PMI methodology and resources.
Assume a specific business unit like:
2 projects with different external companies (contract)
2 project ...
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What are the reasons that silos emerge within large corporations?
The literature is full of suggestions to break down silos which build over time within large organizations.
I was wondering why they form in the first place.
Is there maybe a benefit or a ...
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Why does management have to "buy into" Scrum?
I have read over and over that in order for Scrum to work, "Management has to buy into Scrum." Can you tell me why that is? What management are they talking about, the company stakeholders that have ...
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Why a project manager isn't an entrepreneur? [closed]
It's interesting for me to know the differences between a project manager and an entrepreneur?
Whet does an entrepreneur has that a project manager hasn't and why should a project manager work under ...
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How can I complete 6 months of work in less than 2 months?
Currently my Team and I are working on big project. It's almost done, however now we are stuck at testing and debugging. But we received an offer for another project which is also huge, and we ...
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Organization structure in startup
I was given the role of managing 5 different teams (iOS, Android, Backend, Firmware and Hardware (electronics)). All these teams consist of no more than 4-5 developers. There is also a QA team (2 ...
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How to identify leader in a transformation project and are business analysts needed in a scrum environment?
The company I'm currently working wants to deploy a workflow tool for its factories.
Issues are three-fold:
We don't have any business analysts who have the skills to create the business processes ...
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SAFe with Chargeback Accounting?
My company is very project-oriented and siloed. Many business units don’t want to fight for the money thus they build their own shadow IT. I think it's because of Chargeback Accounting. It’s all ...
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What should the job title be of the person who runs a Project Management Office? [closed]
What would be a good job title of the person who is typically tasked to run and manage a PMO?
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What would a better industry standard title be than "Team Captain" and "Team Leader"?
I recently took a position as a Team Captain. I report to my Team Leader who then reports out of department to an operations manager who manages multiple departments with hundreds of people. I handle ...
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Should there be junior and senior developers in a Scrum team, or should everyone be a developer?
I have worked in an organization where we implemented Scrum, but we dropped the roles "junior" and "senior." Senior developers still regarded themselves as seniors (with all the attitude that comes ...
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How to adopt scrum when you don't know who needs to be in your team each sprint
Developers and QA testers are treated as separate teams at our company, something we are trying to change by adopting scrum. The QA team is distributed globally and each local team has different ...
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What department does a scrum master ideally belong to?
I'm the scrum master in my company (200+ people, several departments) and recently the head of product became my line manager. While this came rather surprising for me and feels kind of wrong, since ...
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Can a Scrum Master give feedback to a team member reporting to another manager?
I am working as Scrum Master and there is a team member who has made a few mistakes. He reports to another manager. I want to talk to him personally without his manager being present. Is that okay ...
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How does one bridge the gap in producing deliverables between operations and projects?
As with most reasonable sized organizations, the current organization has an operational team and a project team which drive varying degree of initiatives.
Unlike any other organization i have ...
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What are differences between Project Manager, Project Expeditor and Project Coordinator?
What are differences between these positions in matrix organization structure?
There is no "Project Expeditor" in this question and it is not related with matrix organization structure.
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Where should employees be located in matrix organization?
Where should employees be located in matrix organization: co-located with project manager or with head of their department?
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Authority distribution at double subordination in matrix organization
How authority should be distributed between functional management and project management? If clear definition of it is not exist, what steps should project manager do to have a higher priority among ...
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What should the title of this PM position be?
What should the proper title of this position be, at a tech company that focuses on developing software?
Role Requirements:
Manage several Business Systems' Web, Database and Cloud Projects
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What are reasons against cross-functional teams?
I often work in companies where functional departments are rigidly separated. To me this seems inefficient, as adds a lot of communication overhead.
Are there reasons why companies prefer this type ...
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How to structure our organization and define agile teams in a multiple concurrent projects context?
I know that the agile concept requires the teams to be small, autonomous and self-sufficient, but how to organize teams when forming small and autonomous teams is almost impossible as each member ...
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Where does a project manager fit in a business unit's organization chart?
Given that a unit has a Director and a Manager, whom does the Project Manager of that unit ordinarily report to, the Director or the Manager?
It seems that if the Project Manager reports to the ...
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Should Project Management be its own department?
So I have recently taken on a role of Business Analyst for a Software team, and I am currently the only 'Project Management' to speak of. My company had a Project Manager before, but it was mostly ...
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Which common file naming schemes are available for project management?
Are there ISO (or other) standards which suggest a naming scheme for office files like
Q-2014-01-02_ObelixAndCo.pdf (example for a quotation)
O-2014-01-04_ObelixAndCo.pdf (example for an order )
D-...
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Scrum and Organizational Structure
I am working in a company that wants to migrate their development process to Scrum.
The company did not have much of a development process up to now but had well organised sales and marketing ...
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Assign client engagement responsibilities to members of each team instead of a single Project Manager?
My team and I have been working on a web product that is targeting businesses. Usually we can deploy the product to any client within 4 weeks, we call this a single client engagement and is by itself ...
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Am I not organized, or have I put too much work on myself?
I am a member of a team of programmers. We do not have a real boss as we work as a group. Each member of a group took non-programming tasks on himself as well, which mainly means that they do testing ...
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Program management and the value of Gantt charts when dates are predetermined
I work for a very large organization not in the PM role that has historically had problems with project leadership and project management in general. They have recently broken up and were reformed as ...
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How to structure a software development team
Given a 15x strong software development team working on individal projects, and small, medium, and large projects; what is the best way to structure this team and what is the best software development ...
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Need an advice on Project management and company structure for a small social media agency (10-15 ppl)
I need your advice folks!
I know the question may be quite trivial but I haven't found any related to my situation answers. And I don't know where to start
We have new start-up company, that has ...
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Are there alternatives to "resource" for describing tech staff on projects?
I am a full-time developer; almost everywhere in project management we are listed as resources. Are there better terms to use other than resource?
I feel term resource has a connotation of being ...
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Should team members report to the project manager?
Should the project manager be the team members' supervisor/manager? (In other words, should team members report directly to the project manager?) Or should the project manager be in a separate line ...
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