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 decides if something should NOT be injected into a Sprint?
On some teams, I've seen it be a combination of operations and Product Management stating that either new/missed requirements came in, or bugs are severe enough to warrant injection. The Scrum Team ...
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Is the Product Owner part of the Scrum Team in SAFe?
I've understood the Scrum Team to be one cohesive team consisting of three responsibility domains:
Development team
Product Owner
Scrum Master
Collectively, we all seek to refine/define and ...
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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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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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Is Software Architecture still Relevant in Agile ?
Agile focuses on developing workable codes from small user stories. Pair programming encourage developers to pair up, actively engage with one another to come up with the best solution for the problem....
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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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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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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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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,
R,C,I
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RACI Accountability: How to get alignment when 2 teams feel they should be the Accountable?
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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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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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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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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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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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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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Is a Project Coordinator a Step closer to becoming a Project Manager?
So I understand that the Project Coordinator's main duties are to schedules the project, manages contracts and vendors, manages the resources (especially in construction projects), creates most ...
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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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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 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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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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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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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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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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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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What is the role of a C# or Java Technical Team Lead in an agile/XP approach?
There is, funnily enough, not much information on this type of role on the Internet. Perhaps that in itself says something. I do however find myself in this role for a small development team of around ...
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Will Project Managers Disappear in a Scrum World?
In a Scrum team there is no role of a project manager. Does that mean that project manager jobs will eventually disappear? What is a project manager supposed to do when organization starts to shift ...
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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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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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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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In an agile process, should there be PMs in agile in the first place? Or Should they be replaced by a PO (Product Owner), or -may be- a Scrum Master?
Not to be confused with:
What role is there for a PM on an Agile project?
How does a Project Manager's job change when transitioning from waterfall to Agile?
In an agile process, where should ...
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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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Transitioning into a project management role [closed]
Many project managers start out as strong individual contributors, and end up as accidental project managers (filling in while the project manager is away, filling a need where a project manager is ...
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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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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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What are the definitions and distinctions between Project x Program x Portfolio x Product Managers?
What are the definitions, distinctions and relationship between the following roles?
Project lead
Project Coordinator
Project Manager
Program Manager
Portfolio Manager
Product Manager (optional)
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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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What are the differences between project leader and project manager
Is there any difference between a project leader and a project manager? Is their involvement different in any aspect?
What are the tasks performed by project managers? What are the tasks performed ...
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Minimum number of roles required in a project
I would be interested in understanding the scenarios where a Project Manager can handle a project with no other roles involved apart from the Executive.
What's the minimum number of roles required on ...
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Who decides how much work should be included in each Sprint?
Once we have groomed the backlog and have a relatively clear direction of what should be done in short and long term, how do we decide what to include in each Sprint? Who makes that decision?
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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 a project manager and developer manager?
What is the difference and when should a company have a project manager or a developer manager?
I found the following diagram but was further confused:
More specific question: In a small company is ...
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How can I handle disengaged and unmotivated employees on my Scrum team?
As a Scrum Master, what actions or steps do I need to take when team members are not engaged or motivated, especially when the team members realize they don't have to report to me and that I don't do ...
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Should a PM assign fine-grained tasks to individuals, or do we have an over-zealous PM?
I work in a small digital agency where we have the following roles:
1 Managing Director
1 Partner
1 Technical Lead
1 Project Manager
1 Designer
3 Developers
Our day to day work is a mixture of ...
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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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In Scrum, what role is responsible for changing team composition?
I am a team member in a Scrum team. This morning I had a discussion with my Scrum Master where I said that I needed a two people from another team to be a part of my team. I said I would like to ...
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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 is an engagement manager - what does (s)he do?
Could anyone please give me a role description of an engagement manager? I think it should be the person internally responsible for getting a deal.
The more detailed the better. References are also ...
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What are some indicators that a project may require a real project manager?
I've worked on many teams, medium size (20+ developers) and smaller, and for the most part the project lead managed the project in terms of projections, collecting and reporting tasks and status ...
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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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