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What can I do when I can't adjust scope, resources, or schedule and a team member wants a raise?
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Your job as a Product Owner (PO) or Project Manager (PM) is not to have all the answers. Your job is to have a vision, and to communicate options to stakeholders and business decision-makers.
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When does throwing in people to meet a Project's Scope or Time constraints ever work?
In certain cases it is possible to get more work done if you introduce more people.
The most usual scenario is when teams take time to do detailed scoping and when the project itself allows low ...
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What is the purpose of the "as late as possible" constraint in MS Project?
A use case might be procurement of a service/software that is a pay-as-you-go service that won't be used until a certain release point. You want to wait as long as possible before procurement to ...
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What is the purpose of the "as late as possible" constraint in MS Project?
A simpler reason is if you are dealing with something that has a short expiration window, such as fresh shrimp or ice without freezer space. You would want the delivery to come "Just-in-time" or as ...
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What is the purpose of the "as late as possible" constraint in MS Project?
This constraint makes sense when you have a task with any of the following characteristics:
It can take place at any point in time, up to a point, but there is a future event/date/task by which it ...
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How can you make a project succeed by raising budget?
The answer will be peculiar to the individual project. Wallace's law of project management the PM's primary job is to inform stakeholders of the effect of any change on Scope, Schedule, and Quality.
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What can I do when I can't adjust scope, resources, or schedule and a team member wants a raise?
Let's simplify your question down. Feature A is expected to cost $X to deliver and in reality costs $1.2X to deliver. This can be because of a raise, inflation, change in needs, or a ton of other ...
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critical chain project management
If we go back to PMBoK basics, the definition in the 5th edition is is:
Critical Chain Method: A schedule method that allows the project team
to place buffers on any project schedule path to ...
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Iron Triangle / quality triangle - why the middle is said to be non-existant?
Some visualizations says that no projects live in the middle of the triangle. But I wonder why?
Projects can live in the middle of the triangle, but typically there is going to be one (or two) ...
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When does throwing in people to meet a Project's Scope or Time constraints ever work?
Different tasks have different degrees of resources elasticity. And a task in itself can have different degrees of elasticity depending on other present variables like the environment.
Imagine ten ...
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How to deal with a client who does not respect PM practices, yet wants a PM?
My experience has been that when the client refuses to accept your advice, the best approach is to focus on highlighting the pain.
By that, I mean you use information radiators and reporting to make ...
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Iron triangle question..how could extended scope only be mitigated by time?
The project management "iron" triangle is problematic.
It does not realistically represent the relationship between the three chosen aspects.
It does not consider quality (except, perhaps, as a ...
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How to deal with a client who does not respect PM practices, yet wants a PM?
Due to the history, it does not sound like you will ever convince her of the need for a more sophisticated PM approach. At this stage, if I were in your shoes, document and publish to as many ...
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When we decrease budget in iron triangle, is it necessary that scope must decrease?
Each of these variables is correlated with the others. If a change occurs on one of them, it will likely drive some degree of change in one or both of the remaining variables. There are several ...
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When we decrease budget in iron triangle, is it necessary that scope must decrease?
The relationship between cost, time, and scope is a bit more complex. The main statement is that you cannot tweak one corner of the triangle without affecting at least one of the others, too, but the ...
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What can I do when I can't adjust scope, resources, or schedule and a team member wants a raise?
If you want a salary increase, I need to be able to justify it by showing that your your work saves costs on other elements of the project.
Is your code of sufficient quality that the total cost of ...
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When does throwing in people to meet a Project's Scope or Time constraints ever work?
One way to think about it is to consider if the task would be marked "Effort Driven" if you were creating an MS Project Plan for it. Effort driven tasks are actually expedited by adding people (at ...
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When does throwing in people to meet a Project's Scope or Time constraints ever work?
A lot of the other answer, cover the case where there is a lot of independence. But what if there is no space on the team to add anyone, then is it ever possible.
Hire a specialist in an area that ...
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Under what circumstances does resource levelling become necessary?
The act of leveling is to reschedule your work packages so that over utilized resources are reconciled. But it seems your interest is to identify over-utilized resources, which you can see by report. ...
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How to select between upfront waterfall planning with a fixed schedule and a milestone-driven approach?
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I am in charge of development, and currently my boss and I disagree about the planning approach.
Either you're in charge or you're not. If you're in charge, that means you are responsible for ...
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How can you make a project succeed by raising budget?
Scope, Schedule and Quality define "What" the project should deliver, however they don't define "How" it will deliver. As stated in other answers, more budget can allow the "...
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How can you make a project succeed by raising budget?
The iron triangle of cost, scope, time, pick only two, is a model of project constraints. It's a good model, but sometimes confuses people who think they can only work on one dimension, while keeping ...
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How can you make a project succeed by raising budget?
Budget as the Unbound Constraint
Throwing money at a sunk cost won't "save" a failing project, but if you don't allocate adequate resources to meet your other project constraints then a ...
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MS Project: Sub-tasks causing unexpected 'Late Start'
The general rule is that the late date of a task is the earliest of:
Its successor late dates, adjusted for lag, calendars, and
duration;
Its Deadline, adjusted for calendars and duration;
Its SNLT/...
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When does throwing in people to meet a Project's Scope or Time constraints ever work?
I definitely agree on what Roberto Anzaldua posted. From what I observed:
If you give a tightly coupled codebase to someone new to the project, he/she will need to dissect which parts he needs to ...
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When does throwing in people to meet a Project's Scope or Time constraints ever work?
Adding extra people to a project can work quite well if you have planned it out in advance. In my team, we have a few external people who are up to date with our systems and can help us out if needed.
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When does throwing in people to meet a Project's Scope or Time constraints ever work?
Is there any other scenario that could work?
I think you are approaching this from an angle of what works functionally. You already know it does not.
Look at it from another angle: as a project ...
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Iron triangle question..how could extended scope only be mitigated by time?
Projects often spend extra to make a deadline
Alan gave a good answer pointing out the limitations of the project management "iron" triangle.
To answer your specific question, you need to consider ...
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How to deal with a client who does not respect PM practices, yet wants a PM?
There must be an official agreement, that establishes your position and responsibilities during the project.
1. The best scenario is for you to find the way to protect your position, the project and ...
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