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Questions tagged [planning]

This tag is for questions that involve planning a project schedule or planning tasks for the team.

Wikipedia link to Project Plan.

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Is there any data to show planning poker produces better estimates than individuals?

As described here planning poker is a group estimating process. It seems that it would work.But is there any data to show that it is better than individual estimation? Edit 4/19/11: I am interested accuracy in terms of time-planning. I am interested…
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Are processes and procedures only for enterprises?

I've had the opportunity to work at quite a few start-ups. One thing I've found to be common in them is adhoc way of doing things and ignorance towards processes, best practices and known project management techniques. When I suggest changes to the…
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What Information to have on project planning sticky notes?

I've been assigned as PM to an ongoing project that had a few issues when I started. It looks like these have been resolved but the team will have to review and update the project plan to address changes in scope, delays that have occurred to get to…
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Starting responsive web design from desktop planning? (x-post from ux.stackoverflow)

I originally asked this question from https://ux.stackexchange.com/questions/28987/starting-responsive-web-design-from-desktop-planning-project-time-crunch, but was referred to here Backstory: Our product team has begun finalizing details for a user…
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How to structure a project plan

I had an initial meeting with my project stakeholders and was able to define a strategy based on goals that everyone agrees with. The goals are: Data access Data storage Data validation Analytical solutions Real time support All five goals…
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What approaches exist for long-term planning and responding to change?

In a software development firm, we often make release plans to fit a particular need: be it a focus on feature development, or carving out a market niche, or just overall quality improvements to stay ahead of the competitors. When faced with the…
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Project manager roles and planning

I have a very general idea of what a project manager does - taking each project group's work and basically synthesizing it in the most optimal, cost efficient way. However, for this internship position, I was tasked to give a rough outline of being…
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Does planning complexity increase as the project proceeds?

I am looking for an answer to a question I received during a test on PM theory: Generally, as the project proceeds, complexities involved in project planning and re-planning increase decrease
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How to measure complexity of a project?

Is there a way I can get a numeric quantifier for the complexity of a project? Such as something similar to a risk assessment matrix.
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Starting a project without a project manager?

I work in IT and I'm planning a large-scale migration project, which the end user is onboard with and is happy with the functionality etc. I've done a lot of the leg work, which involves different teams, negating the need for a PM. At a high level,…
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Stakeholder of SRS

Who are the stakeholder of the software requirement specification? My UI designer keeps pressing us for the program flow. I thought the designer should be giving us what should be included on each page. It seems like like there is an overlap of…
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What is the procedure to change Baseline plan of the project?

What is the procedure to change Baseline plan of the project? When do you considering changing Baseline plan of the project. Who need to approve the baseline changes?
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Avoiding vendor lock-in with few vendors available

My company is venturing into a niche area of the telecom business. The challenge we are facing is there are very few vendors of some critical software we need and in turn there are very few customers to buy the software. It's just a small market for…
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How does one present current and future projects with gaps with overlapping timelines?

There are currently 160+ projects in flight. Based on business priorities, needs and wants, these are being group as current and future with a view to further segment these by timelines such as 3, 6, 9, 12 months. These also need to be presented…
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Project Manager - Writing Project Specification

Background I've been in web development field for past 8 years , and i got myself a management role as a Project Manager several months back. Most of the time i'm dealing with open source web technology ( LAMP ) My Problem Recently i got myself a…
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