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How can I map stakeholders without offending anyone?
compare to other colleagues and feel insulted.
The other two answers are good - but this confuses me. When I've done stakeholder analysis, the process has been open and participatory. There shouldn'...
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How can I map stakeholders without offending anyone?
I personally don’t like tools you have to hide. This leads to mistrust and if it leaks (for whatever reason) you are in trouble.
So we started 20 years ago to use a technique which is called project ...
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Aren't stakeholder expected to adopt an agile mindset when working in a Scrum framework?
shouldn't the adoption of agile values be present on both sides?
Yes, it should. But often isn't.
The problem is that Agile/Scrum is more of a mindset than a way of working. But people all ...
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Aren't stakeholder expected to adopt an agile mindset when working in a Scrum framework?
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Yes. Stakeholders need to be active collaborators in a successful Scrum or agile process.
Roles and Objectives for Stakeholder Collaboration
While not spelled out prescriptively in the Scrum ...
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What can lead to disappointed and angry stakeholders?
Choosing two answers, I would select A and D.
B can be eliminated since project plans and formal change request procedures aren't typically a part of agile delivery approaches. Agile Software ...
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How to manage an army of not-really-devs trying to write code for the sake of project management?
The idea that "everyone is a developer" and "everyone writes code" aren't the same thing. In this sense, "developer" does not mean "programmer", but "a ...
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How should a Scrum Master deal with an angry stakeholder during a PO meeting?
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I was thinking at the back of my mind to either:
defend the PO and budget
defend the team, since they were kept busy delivering items from the backlog
Bring focus to the meeting ...
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How should a Scrum Master deal with an angry stakeholder during a PO meeting?
I am drawing assumptions on your PO's agenda, based on my experience of other PO meetings, and discussing a stakeholder's objections on spend would not be consistent with that agenda. The PO, or you, ...
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Best way to deal with difficult stakeholders?
Stakeholder management 101: define the rules of engagement, define the two-way communication requirements, point out and resolve the inconsistencies in the stakeholder requirements--such as what you ...
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How to manage an army of not-really-devs trying to write code for the sake of project management?
there are no roles on the team (a "cross-functional" team where "all team members are developers")
One thing I want to note is what exactly cross-functional means:
it is not a ...
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What is the term for an anti-user-story?
As an Information Security Architect, I am with you on the idea of anti-story, and I would counter Daniel and request that they do become permanent record.
In Archimate, you can model risk as events, ...
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When to process feedback on the deliverable of the last iteration?
I'm a big fan of a continuous feedback loop rather than making it stick to a schedule.
My suggestion would be to:
Deploy frequently to your staging environment (whenever you have a stable build).
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Best way to deal with difficult stakeholders?
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You must leverage your framework more effectively. This includes pulling your stakeholders into Backlog Refinement and explaining the iterative/incremental nature of the project's delivery ...
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When to process feedback on the deliverable of the last iteration?
If you are following pure Scrum then Sprint Review can help you. Only sprint review is the event of Scrum when Increment (developed software/feature) is ready for stakeholder review and stakeholders ...
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When to process feedback on the deliverable of the last iteration?
It seems a little surprising that one of the answers hasn't covered this, but: do you hold a review meeting at the end of the iteration?
Scrum and XP both include this meeting to address the ...
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Is it possible to give timelines in SCRUM?
Like most things, it depends.
In theory, you could forecast when work is likely to be done. If you understand your team's average velocity (whether it's in story points per Sprint, ideal hours per ...
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How to shape the demand with Kanban?
Shaping demand isn't a Kanban problem per se, but Kanban can certainly help in two ways. First, Kanban provides a lot of visibility. That means that if you try some action to shape your demand, you ...
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Stakeholder view of projects without time?
The idea is that, once a team has stabilized, there are two things which become more or less constant:
The amount of story points in a sprint
The average amount of time for a story point for the team ...
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Do you show your RAID log to stakeholders?
The purpose of the log is to keep you, as the PM, and your team on the same page as to the high priority things on which you are working. It is not a communication vehicle. To communicate with it ...
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How to handle last minute misleading requirement and/or dissatisfaction
I suspect you'll hear book answers and so called "real life" answers. I have chosen to follow the book answers to the degree possible since most likely the book answer was a practice that seemed to ...
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What to do if a Key stakeholder asks for a new request while my team is trying to meet other important deadlines?
This is a classic role for a project manager, that of managing changes.
First of all, I suggest you create a change management process with some steps that will allow you to asses the impact this has ...
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How can I map stakeholders without offending anyone?
It's best to avoid using group titles like defenders and apathetics.
The map in ProjectManagementBlueprint conveys the same stakeholder analysis but without the labels. It also uses the phrase engage ...
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I was asked to accelerate my team's production: Agile, A/B Testing, Workflow & Process
You have two separate problems here.
You are not on the same page as your VP on what 'agile' means.
You think it's the VP's place to decide whether or not a timeline is realistic.
I'll tackle these ...
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Is there a term for chained unknown unknowns?
The source of all risks is uncertainty, i.e., what we don't know. There are three types: 1) aleatory (irreducible); 2) epistemic (reducible); and 3) ontological (complete ignorance). Aleatory risks--...
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How do you as product owner decide that a product is feasible?
This is a really good question and one that doesn't get asked enough!
Some things you can do to gain confidence in the feasibility of an idea:
Build a business case for the idea (testing likely value ...
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Stakeholder engagement v Business engagement
TL;DR
I've been asked to put a proposal forward a business analyst that will create a "business engagement framework" as part of a (vague) RFQ (Request for [Q]uotation).
You're tying ...
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How can a project manager create a plan without having specifications for the product defined at the beginning of the project?
How does a project manager manage planning without the specifications of the product at the beginning of the project
With difficulties.
Without knowing the specifications, you need to make ...
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Having trouble influencing my boss first time round?
You know the old dating line, "It's not you, it's me". In part, this is what's likely going on with your boss. I coach with the use of the DISC assessment system. I find it a useful tool to help in ...
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How to organize effective iteration demo in outsource project?
On our project, we hold virtual demos for clients at the end of releases all the time. We have a pretty standardized format for this, that usually works pretty well.
First of all, you want to make ...
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Ensuring project progress with non-performance from 3rd party
The PM owns the schedule, and evaluates all events through impact on schedule, cost, and quality. (events include both issues such as this and risks - if you suspect that the contractor won't ...
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