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First thing is to learn how much of priority your project does have. Second thing is to actually ignore that information and fight for it like it was top priority thing and life of all people in the …

Project management generally deals with planning and organizing a project and dealing with people and resources in a way which allows to reach project goals. Specific tasks would depend on project's …

The main problem with maintenance and support teams is that it's usually really hard to plan their work in reasonable way in any longer time span. If we define maintenance team as one which reacts ei …

First thing is common understanding. You say that you were talking the problem through with the discussed person and it didn't help. I wonder if she understands the issue the same way you do. Is it po …

I can answer with a question: what do leaders do? They help to plan actions of the group and execute these plans. They react for changing situation and help to deal with unexpected. They delegate re …

There isn't any direct relation between ownership and overprocessing. What I believe you look for is limiting overprocessing in a way that doesn't harm ownership and not a balance between one and the …

The most important reason: if you believe you'd like people manager job better than PM job go for it. It is said that when we find the job we love we don't need to work anymore and there's much truth …

I believe such evaluations have little value in terms of working with the team. I assume you already have your team so you don't want to use the method to select people. If I'm wrong here you can also …

The range of tasks in such small projects depends much on what exactly you're working on. In either case you probably need to cope with: Managing the scope. It can be very light-weight, so the scope …

The first question here is: whether the team should have power to remove one of its team members. Usually trash talking on one of team members at the water-cooler is a combination of frustration and n …

Actually any method which involves discussion between three estimators should do well. A few ideas you might find useful: Planning poker which is pointed by Kennethvr. Similar technique, which works …

I see a few approaches you may choose to tackle the situation: Have separated teams to deal with professional services and product development (you mention this one). On the plus side: you can recru …

First things first. I don't think project management approach or software development lifecycle of your choice is your problem at the moment. What you have here is more an issue with leadership and/or …

Internships are usually a way to find inexperienced people, train them and sometimes decide whether you want to bring them full time. For an employer it is a low-risk occasion to verify intern's skill …

I strongly believe in being with a team. Let's consider a simple example: your team faces a critical issue. People are trying to track down some technical glitch but they struggle to catch it. Anyway, …