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Questions tagged [project-team]

Questions related to project team and/or a member(s) of the team involved in the project.

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Is a Developer Getting Involved in Project Management a Good Idea?

As a developer working on a team with a project manager, is it valuable for the team and/or the project manager to have team members who are aware of project management and for them to share their opinions? How does this effect the relationships…
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A person in a project team not willing to follow the rules - what to do?

You're a project manager and set some rules how you expect the project team to behave, e.g. you want summary of the daily work in your inbox at the end of the day from each of project team members. Now, everyone in the team seems to follow these…
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What if project manager is appreciating an undeserving team member?

I am working as a Senior Software Engineer. I am also a module lead and am leading a team of 2. One of the guys is very abrasive and shows a reprehensible and arrogant attitude towards the fellow team mates. This goes on always. I tried to appease…
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Student project vs Real project

I've been a part of student project teams for years now, both in highschool and at university level. I enjoy project managing but so far it's always been fictional, but as I'm going in to the next phase of my life Ive been thinking of starting up a…
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Are there successful stories of couples developing application together?

My girlfriend an I are currently both IT consultants. I've been thinking whether there have been any successful cases of couples developing applications that actually have made it big. Anyone can advise on this?
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What is "SPOCK" exactly?

I cannot see the exact definition of the "SPOCK". Is it something like a "Subject-Matter-Expert"? So a person, who is the max/top consultant from the given technical subject?
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Federal grant proposal - labor vs consultant vs subcontractors

I'm applying for a US federal grant and their budget requirements require the following format of itemized costs. Note: I'm unsure if this question belongs on this Stack Overflow. If not, please redirect me to the correct SO. I'm confused on a few…
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Scope creep and out of scope

What is the difference between scope creep and out of scope ? How is scope creep implemented during project without change request?
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Does this workload seem right?

I'm a project director at a custom lighting company. There are 2 project managers and 2 project coordinators under me. I alone manage 15 clients equaling 2.5 million in earnings in 6 months. I manage the team and attend every meeting = 3 hours a…
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Questions about building a solution matrix

I had a chance to be selected as the team lead of a small project in my company. The goal is to made a choice on the new SAP the company will use. We are a team of 6 persons with cross skills. Our final deliverable will be a documentation on how to…
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What do a company do with new hired employees when a customer decides to close a project?

Let's suppose a software development company got a new client and is starting a project for this client. The company hired a new team of developers and testers. And then the client decides to close the project (for whatever reason, it doesn't…
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Risk management plan vs risk register

Should you be able to lay the two side by side and they will talk to each other item for item?
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How to properly rotate developer roles?

Several back-end developers and front-end developers want to become full stacks by taking other tasks other than their specialties. For example, back-end developer wants to take some front-end tasks. As a team lead, I did let them do it in last…
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Avoid employees from stealing source code on a project

I've been working for big and small companies, for the last 5 years. I've noticed that nobody, or at least on the places where I've worked for, is worried about the source code of the applications. For example I could at any time bring my usb key…
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