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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 …

It seems like work-life balance type of issue. In short most of us can work for pretty long time at over 100% rate. The problem is at the end of the process we're burned out. Now the manager either do …

Well, if you're free to select people who will be working on your project you're pretty lucky. A good team is a mixture of characters and a mixture of skills and this is general advice you should fol …

Programming isn't really a discipline where pure competition works well. You can get much more trying to foster cooperation than competition, so I don't think hiring a couple of people instead of one …

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 …

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 …

First, bring the discussion down to facts. It's not that you don't want to deal with another task or you feel you won't handle it but you know it and you can support it with hard data. Until you star …

Yes and no. Typically when we think about managing people we think about superior-subordinate relation in terms of hierarchy. So we have a manager who has a team to manage. Project managers however …

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, …

First, every appraisal, no matter who does it, is arbitrary to some point. If someone isn't fine with that they should find a place where there's no appraisals at all. Second, for someone who is look …

If there are no policies against dating and we discuss two team members (not superior and subordinate) I wouldn't step in until relation affects how the project goes. If there is a policy against dat …

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 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 can't be a universal answer for such a question. The fact, that a team is a Scrum team or Kanban team or Agile team is negligible. I go with an assumption that one (probably not the only) thing …

Sometimes it's easier to work as we were all the time so I understand why there's reluctance. One of ideas can be using the tool which automatically copes with email answers, e.g. you start the thread …