Questions tagged [project-management-style]
Questions related to the formal and informal methods and techniques used by a project manager to collect, organize, and facilitate communication
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What are "Consumed Story Points" in Trello?
Some Scrum add-ons allow you to enter both estimated story points and consumed story points. What are consumed story points and how do you measure/estimate them?
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Managing scope creep in Agile
I often get asked this question in the interview, and no matter what I answer the interviewers do not seem to get satisfied.
So, they start with asking how to manage scope creep in Project Management?...
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Scrum Project Management Methodology strategy for working towards a fixed deadline
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Is it valid and possible to cope fixed unmovable deadlines into Scrum?
I guess it is just confusing to me because I thought one of the core principles of Project Management is to help ...
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SRS for an Agile project
Currently, I am drafting a SRS ( Software Requirement Specification ) doc for an agile project, and the samples are the ones used in a waterfall project. I did google a lot but couldn't find any right ...
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As a Scrum Master, how to handle management expectations on delivering story points?
Problem - I've been appointed as a Scrum Master to a new team and senior management (CTO) expectation is that our team should deliver more than the SP capacity we can currently realistically deliver.
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How can I handle objections about the percent of utilization of a non-technical PM?
One of our best PMs is a non-technical PM. She used to be a BA, not a developer, and is extremely detail oriented, has excellent communications, is Scrum certified, etc. We are placing her on one of ...
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How to manage large-scale research projects in a research center and measure performance?
I work at a research center that is now going through changes in its administration. The new board of directors calls for a more aggressive and more practical approach to project management and ...
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OKRs as a new Waterfall
I'm a software developer and I don't have deep knowledge of the best practices around Objectives and Key Results (OKRs), so I base my question mostly on how they are used in my company.
Every quarter ...
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how to do spike/research story which can run more than 1 sprint
I past I have done a research/spike story which was a new area for me. Building big excel, debug ntml2 jar for authentication issue. our sprint was 2 weeks and it runs for more than 1 sprint, what ...
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How to keep a PRINCE2 project lean?
I gathered some project management experience (I consider myself an advanced beginner) and some time ago I attended the PRINCE2 courses successfully. Now I'd like to conduct my next project using ...
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What is the difference between Business/Management Consultant and Project Manager? [closed]
I met a business/management consultant 2 months ago working in one of the top business consulting firms.
He explained to us that he, as a Business Consultant, can successfully manage projects more ...
