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For questions about identifying, documenting, communicating, or mitigating risks to a project's schedule.
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What is a good way to set control limits on a schedule?
Acceptable Tolerances Vary
I understand the core of your question to be:
I am interested in is establishing robust upper and lower control limits on the schedule[.]
Acceptable schedule toleranc …
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Documenting diversions or delays from a schedule?
Documentation is a Communication Aid
Where is information such as deviations to be documented?
There isn't a single answer for this, as it depends on what you're trying to document and the purpo …
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How can I plan for contingencies in Scrum?
TL;DR
Like any project, things happen. I am looking for feedback on how to plan for the contingency in a scrum based project. [sic]
This is an X/Y problem. In Scrum, you have estimates rather th …
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How to do risk profiling?
TL;DR
Risk assessment is a broad topic that can (and has) filled many books. There is no simple answer to your question. However, there are certainly starting points.
Borrow from Security/Audit
The …
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How do you calculate extra costs incurred if a project overruns its schedule?
TL;DR
There isn't really any such thing as a "daily loss" in project management, since most projects are cost centers rather than profit centers. For example, you'd be hard-pressed to treat most proj …
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How should we plan work on support issues without a "battery"?
No Invisible Work, Ever!
Work is work, whether it's on bugs or new features. Therefore, all work needs to be tracked on the Sprint and Product backlogs, regardless of the source. If you are using Kan …
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How should a drastic deviation in overall design be managed in Scrum?
TL;DR
Scrum is an agile framework that embraces changing requirements, but the framework has rules for how and when changes can be introduced. Minor changes should be deferred, while drastic changes …
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How can I get inexperienced team members to meet project deadlines?
TL;DR
Targets and estimates are two different things. You're confusing the two, and setting your team up for failure.
Targets vs. Estimates
A target is something you assign to your team, such as "I …
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How can we manage schedule risks brought into a project by 3rd party software?
TL;DR
You aren't really asking a risk-management question. At heart, the question is really about how to estimate projects where you have no baseline values. A common solution is to use a pilot proje …
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When can a project's wrong estimates be justified?
The Problem
[Are] there any cases...when wrong estimates can be justified?
Estimates are not guarantees. They are "educated guesses" based on experience, historical data, and a set of assumption …
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Should a Product Owner be asking developers to do QA to meet deadlines?
What's Wrong with Your Team's Processes
When the deadline is tight and when there are not enough QA people, the Product Owner asks developers to join in with QA to meet the deadline.
Your proces …
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How can we prevent project professionals from sabotaging the project schedule?
TL; DR
Are there any internal controls that can be adopted to help deal with this behaviour?
Repeat after me: There is no silver bullet. However, most of the problems you're describing are actua …
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How can I address productivity issues in a Scrum Team missing deadlines?
TL;DR
You certainly appear to have a problem, but you have turned it into an X/Y problem. You have delivery deadlines, and while deadlines in the traditional sense are not mentioned even once in the 2 …
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Refactoring in Agile development
TL;DR
Part of any project management framework, but especially agile frameworks like Scrum, is the necessity of continuously managing stakeholder expectations. People want what they want when they wan …
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Schedule Control
TL; DR
At various points, your project is potentially 1.5 weeks late or 4 days early. Your methodology values calculated variances, but (as far as I know) doesn't mandate continuous re-planning. It w …