Questions tagged [roles]
This tag is for questions about what is part of a role on a project, for example what the a planner does, what a lead does, etc. This tag can also be applied to questions about methodologies, such as Scrum, where the question involves individual roles in that methodology. In that case, also tag with the specific methodology.
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Who are the stakeholders of my new communications app project?
I am developing a communications app to help college students from all universities in the same country to connect with each other. This is my first time developing an app, so I don't know who the ...
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For a given activity in the RACI Matrix, what is the maximum number of roles a person can be assigned to?
I have created a RACI Matrix for the incident management process in our organization. In some of the activities, the individual is assigned multiple roles for an activity. For example,
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Who speaks to the client when there are some errors in the documentation that the client delivered?
We have a web development project with a client. This project has plenty of formulas and documents (around 100 formulas per block, and 5 blocks for the whole project.
The Product Owner created a ...
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RACI Accountability: How to get alignment when 2 teams feel they should be the Accountable?
Problem statement:
I've started on a new team in which there is lack of clarity around roles and responsibilities so I'm leading some RACI definition exercises.
For a few key activities, there are two ...
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How to integrate DevOps people into a Scrum Team?
NB: In our company's internal lexicon, "DevOps" is a role set by our company that means "infrastructure and operations person" rather than standard DevOps. I know it's more of a ...
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Can a Business Analyst be a BA outside the context of a project?
I was given the following question, and am unclear about whether a business analyst can be a BA outside of a project.
A business analyst (BA) is someone who elicits the actual needs of organizational ...
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What's the role of a Resource Manager in Agile?
The following exchange took place in the comments to an answer to another question How do I manage development with testing and get proper reporting in JIRA?, which seem to highlight a different ...
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Question on temporarily allowing a team lead to pause project management to go faster?
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In our organization, our Scrum Masters are also engineers, and 30% to 50% of their time is organizing the team, backlog, tickets, etc. The last 3-4 weeks we allowed one of these Scrum ...
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Can the User and Supplier roles be combined? How to mitigate the risks?
Can the Senior Supplier and the Senior User role be provided in the Steering Committee by the same person? What are the risks and how they could be mitigated?
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How does a Scrum Team handle traditional BA responsibilities?
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This question was proposed by the participants of the discussion of the previous, more general question.
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The business analyst's work often implies a kind of waterfall-ish or ...
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Does a business analyst fit into the Scrum framework?
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Let's consider a software development project made for an external customer. The development company (the vendor) has the usual positions and specialists: developers, testers, business ...
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Which job title (entry-level) for PMO member?
I am looking for possible job titles for PMO employees (entry-level).
Our PMO has a leading Manager PMO (once called Project Management Officer) who has a strategic focus, and now we are looking for a ...
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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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How can I resolve conflict with a seasoned developer?
I am quite new to project management, with less than two years of experience.
I am assigned to the a project. A seasoned developer is challenging my authority and expertise this way:
I've been ...
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Who is the correct party to set up and run a steering committee?
We have a product team and two distribution channel teams who are decision makers in driving a growth strategy forward. Distribution Team 2 is the ultimate owner of the success of this strategy. The ...
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Are stakeholder and users separate roles on a project in Scrum or they are covered by Product owner?
I have recently encountered a presentation about scrum where stakeholders and users were visualized as equal roles like Development Team, Scrum Master and Product Owner.
Is this valid in terms of ...
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One of our executives wants to play programmer
Context: I work as a senior development staff at a medium-sized startup in the FinTech sector.
Our tech team is running at full capacity and we don't have time to address some of the features that ...
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Should the Product Owner dictate what info the UI needs to display?
I hope someone can help me understand one part of the role of the Product Owner (PO).
In my company, we have a PO that is responsible for the Product Backlogs of all our products. I work as a UX ...
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What is the difference between the project manager and business analyst role?
I am bit confused between the role of project manager and business analyst. What is the basic difference between the two?
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Why does PRINCE2 specify that the project manager and executive roles cannot be combined?
My PRINCE2 training manual says that the Project Manager and Executive role cannot be combined. These roles are also non-optional, and so presumably create a minimum team size of 2 for any PRINCE2 ...
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Is there a standard job title for someone who does project admin without making important decisions?
I'm working as a technical PM on a software project. The decision making and technical demands are such that day-to-day tasks (such as communicating properly with the customer) are suffering.
We want ...
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Which role is the equivalent to the Product Owner in DSDM AgilePM?
Which role is the equivalent to the Product Owner in DSDM's Agile Project Management? Would the Business Ambassador play a similar role?
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What are the differences between a project assistant, manager, and secretary?
Is there a difference and if ‘yes’ does there exist a definition of their scopes?
I was asking aunt Google but got the impression from job descriptions that the scope or responsibilities overlap ...
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Can the Scrum Master role directly modify the Sprint Backlog?
Our company is migrating to Scrum. I've been thrust into the role of Scrum Master (with no formal training—but I'm working on that). Our team doesn't have a Product Owner due to the structure of our ...
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Project Manager cancel or move daily stand-up without notice if he has conflicting meetings
I've done my homework and searched on the website, and I could find a similar question: Should we cancel the Daily Stand-Up if we have another meeting during the day? but my case is different: my ...
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Is Scrum Master a "management" position?
I am studying the Scrum framework and I am trying to be ready for the Scrum Master certification.
I think that I understand the role of the Scrum Master but there is a question that seems to pop up ...
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Should I assign Belbin roles explicitly?
Recently I've got familiar with the Belbin Roles concept.
It seemed to be weird that I should let people be aware of their roles, or even about my expectations, because the Belbin roles are rather ...
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What Jira role is required so as to have access to Jira import
I am a novice Jira user, part of a pilot project where none of us have notable experience. We are using hosted Jira. The site administrator has made me administrator of a couple of projects. Now I'd ...
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ITIL for marketing projects
Is there a tailoring of ITIL for marketing projects: web, crm and mobile?
Something a marketing expert can understand who supervises the realisation of such a project by a subcontractor.
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Can running my own business be counted towards PMI experience requirements?
I started a retail business from scratch. I imported ready-made garments. I was the CEO for three years, managed everything, and worked in my stores full time. I had employees as well.
The ...
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What's expected from different career levels for a Scrum Master?
Every career has juniors, intermediates, seniors, gurus, and whatnot. I'm looking for what separates the different levels so I know how to structure a career path within a company.
Ideally I'd like to ...
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In an scaled Scrum with multiple teams, who should be responsible for writing automated system tests?
We have three teams contributing to the same product. Currently our automated system tests are being written by two QA people that see what has been finished in the reviews and then write appropriate ...
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How should a Scrum Master handle a Product Owner who micromanages the team?
Currently working with the Product Owner/CEO in a Scrum role.
My management style is starting to clash with the PO. His style of management is the following:
working long hours and taking work home ...
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Can one person be both Scrum Master and Architect at the same time?
Is it OK if the Scrum Master and Architect is one person? I clearly understand why it's bad idea to combine Scrum Master and Product Owner roles: conflicts of interest, SM cares about development, PO ...
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Mixing organizational and Scrum roles
Within a quite young and fresh Startup, I'm currently holding the role of a Scrum Master, as well as a developer. My tasks are split up 50/50 between those roles. The 1.5 years before that, I was ...
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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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Can a developer become a Scrum Master?
Can a developer become Scrum Master after taking Professional Scrum Master certification?
I am a developer and lead with 9 years of experience. I am interested to shift my career to the Scrum Master ...
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Team member frequently disregards "small" requests
I am the PM for a smallish-medium software development team at a large IT services company. One of the developers is knowledgeable and generally a nice guy, but has a tendency to ignore "small" ...
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Can a Business Coordinator become a project manager
I am working as a Business Coordinator in an IT company. I have completed Bachelors of Technology in Information Technology.
Is there a chance for me to become a Project Manager?
If yes, then what ...
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Can Product Owner + Scrum Master (Team/Kanban Lead) provide combined leadership for a team?
Is the combination of the Product Owner and Scrum Master (or Kanban Lead) a better combination for leadership on a team? I am leaning toward POs being part of the leadership as well as the Scrum ...
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When does one develop a RASCI?
Generally I see a Responsibility Assignment Matrix (RASCI) being developed at the start of a project. However, in the current environment, a RASCI is only being developed as part of handover to the ...
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What are the tasks that project manager should NOT do, but delegate instead? [closed]
If you work in a startup environment (less than 20 people), you will see yourself working not only on project manager's tasks, but also on business analyst's, sale's, etc...
Gradually, your company ...
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What are developers expected to do during testing in the latter half of each Sprint?
When you are using the Scrum framework, a Sprint cycle involves development and QA. At the end of the Sprint the tasks worked upon and tested are showcased and released.
Typically, for a team of 3 to ...
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How to prevent well intended project managers from getting too involved in the details?
When working on projects, there are often Project Managers who have transitioned from technical roles.
For better or worse, these project managers often take the lead in defining the technical ...
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Tasks of a PM in a Software project?
Can someone try to explain me the tasks of a PM in a software project? Especially during the stages of development, test and release.
Can't figure out what benefit they bring to the team during ...
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How do the following QA, Business Analyst, Developer and lead or architect fit in scrum
How do the following QA, Business Analyst, Developer and lead or architect fit in a scrum.
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How to transition from programmer to project manager?
I'm a programmer at a small company who's used to receiving projects by someone saying in a meeting: "make an e-commerce website," and then I'll just take it upon myself to do it. The only ...
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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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