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What are the main reasons Scrum doesn't admit managers?
First, some clarification is important. Scrum does not expressly forbid any job. People in the Scrum Team can have any job titles as long as it respects the structure and rules of Scrum. Further, ...
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What does it mean to 'crash a project'?
Crashing is simply the concept of throwing more resources--be it money, tools and machinery, humans, etc--at a work package in an attempt to decrease its overall duration. The general idea is, if you ...
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Do project managers use RAID Logs?
Absolutely keep logs and absolutely bring them to the surface and work them on a strict cadence. Especially risks. Without the logs, people will happily ignore them. There is a resistance in ...
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What are the main reasons Scrum doesn't admit managers?
The customer will ask why is not-managing better than managing?
I'd say:
But we do manage it. Just differently. With Scrum.
... and then proceed to explain how the various management activities ...
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(Calculation EMV) What is the business purpose of product value calculated by multiplying the probability of an event by the cost of the impact?
Expected Monetary Value (EMV) is an important part of risk management, usually used in large and complex projects to perform quantitative risks analysis.
Probability is the measurement of the ...
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Do project managers use RAID Logs?
In my opinion any Project Manager that does not actively use Risks and Issues logs is not worthy of the name. Active management of risk, particularly, is the biggest part of what a project manager is ...
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Do project managers use RAID Logs?
I use Risk and Issue logs and review them on a strict, regular basis. They are essential tools both for myself as a PM, and for the wider stakeholder community within the project. Why do I say that?
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How a software development contract is concluded?
Customers prefer a FFP at times because of they believe it helps to control costs. In some ways it does; however, in many cases they end up paying more, either because of the contingency built in the ...
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Does Project Charter change when the Project manager changes?
Project Charter is a document that formalizes the existence of a project and gives authority to the project manager to use organizational resources for the completion of that project.
Having said ...
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What are the main reasons Scrum doesn't admit managers?
Let's lay out some statements:
1. Scrum is founded on empirical process control theory, or empiricism.
2. Empiricism emphasizes the role of empirical evidence in the formation of ideas, rather than ...
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Does PMBoK say that a project manager should resist any change to the approved plans?
PMBOK 6th Ed. Section 4.5.3.2 change requests may be issued to expand,
adjust, or reduce project scope, product scope, or quality
requirements and schedule or cost baselines. Change requests are
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Does the current PMP exam ask about human motivational theory?
I passed the exam 6 months back. I didn't use the same approach than you, I read only very few chapters of the PMBOK. The way I did was doing a maximum of tests and studied the reasons why I failed ...
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How long will be 5th edition of PMBOK be basis for PMP certification
As many PM training portals say, PMBOK® Guide Sixth Edition is going to be released in Q3'17 (Jun-Aug 2017), and PMP Exam update to PMBOK® Guide 6 will happen in Q1 of 2018.
https://www.project-...
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In what ways does a project charter differ from a project scope?
Project scope is a conceptual thing describing the boundaries of your project, covering what the project encompasses and (maybe more importantly) what it does not encompass. From PMBOK 4:
Project ...
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Which frameworks can be used with PMBoK?
PMBoK is the framework - it's akin (but different) to PRINCE2 or Agile.
PMBoK is, obviously, much more Project Manager focused than the other frameworks. You can use pieces of the PMBoK framework ...
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( PMBOK 5th Edition ) What is difference between Quality Audit and Process Analysis?
Quality Audit is basically seeing if you are following the defined process. A Process Analysis is examining what you do and identifying aspects that could be improved.
As an extreme example, in a ...
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Does the "Plan Scope Management Process" contain many sub-processes?
The Planning is the Activity
You're misreading the objective. For "Plan Scope Management Process," the sole output of the activity is a plan, not all of the other things that a scope management ...
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How formal is the sprint planning?
Sprint planning is a meeting held between the Product Owner and the team doing the work. The Product Owner is the one that prioritises the backlog and also briefs the team on the items at the top of ...
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In PMBoK, what do we do when we understand that a project can't be completed on time?
Within PMBoK, you are using the processes under the Plan, Execute, and Monitor & Control process groups and within all 10 knowledge areas.
When you are seeing signals of an unfavorable schedule ...
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What are the main reasons Scrum doesn't admit managers?
Self-organising teams are not something unique to Scrum, but they do happen to work very successfully for software and technology teams. One argument for self-organising is that no single person (...
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Does PMBoK say that a project manager should resist any change to the approved plans?
The PMBOK doesn't discuss resisting change. It discusses scope creep and managing change. These two things are not the same.
Scope creep is uncontrolled change, a change that occurs without official ...
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Does PMBoK say that a project manager should resist any change to the approved plans?
This depends on what you mean by "flexible with changes" and "resisting changes".
The PMBoK assumes a process in which you define the work, do a breakdown of that work, then build ...
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Pricing risks when developing a project's budget
You need to calculate risk exposure for each of the identified risks then compute a work buffer to cover them. This is part of the Risk Analysis and Management practice.
Since this is a fixed price ...
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How formal is the sprint planning?
Sprint Planning is a formal ceremony where the team commits to the work that they would be able to accomplish during the sprint. It is where the stories prioritized by the PO are analyzed and broken ...
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(Calculation EMV) What is the business purpose of product value calculated by multiplying the probability of an event by the cost of the impact?
The business purpose behind using weighted values is to normalize the data you have for many alternatives that have varying degrees of risk and impact. It equalizes a set of alternatives with ...
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What does it mean to 'crash a project'?
There are 2 strategies for compressing project schedules; crashing and fast tracking.
Crashing refers to adding more resources to critical activities in order to reduce the duration and save time ...
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What are defintions of Work Performance Data, Work Performance Information & Work Performance Reports, and their differences?
I neither know nor care how the PMBoK defines these definitions but I would define them as follows:
Data: Raw.
Information: Raw data synthesized and interpreted such that findings are identified, ...
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How to manage cost of change / impact analysis with no funding?
Part of every project, no matter its size or complexity or industry, there is some level of effort--hours, dollars, people, tools, etc.--allocated for the pure purpose of managing the project. This ...
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In PMBoK, what do we do when we understand that a project can't be completed on time?
The PMBOK's full name is "Guide to the Project Management Body of Knowledge". It isn't designed to tell you what to do, but it is a way of organizing the breadth of knowledge that is likely ...
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How a software development contract is concluded?
There's a difference between being a software vendor and being a service provider for bespoke applications development. You seem to be describing a service-provider kind of relationship.
A fixed-price ...
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