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Questions tagged [team-management]

This tag is for all questions related to leading and managing project teams and project team members either directly or indirectly.

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Responsibility without authority

Project Managers almost never have a direct reporting relationship with the team members assigned to their project, but remain accountable for the project outcome. What are some effective ways of influencing commitment and participation when team…
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What is the best way to manage a person who shows very little interest in work?

I am supposed to manage a person who tries to give many excuses to avoid work. I talked to her several times that she needs to change her behavior and tried to give her a task to improve her understanding and make her capable of taking some tasks…
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How to manage a Web Project

I'm a web developer, working in a small web development firm. usually we have small set of projects, using PHP & MySQL, and a small team with less than 4. But some times its hard to recollect details about these projects and maintain tasks as…
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How should I handle an argumentative team member?

I have a developer on my team who is otherwise very productive but is getting more and more argumentative and disrespectful to the team and to the project managers. For some reason (possibly culturally as she's from another country) she takes any…
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How to deal with difficult people?

One of my colleagues constantly faces the following problem: We have a team consisting of programmers that are always working on one project or the other. Now there are times when we have to work with cross functional teams to get some data (data…
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Unable to control team and deliverables

I'm new to project management. I'm working in a software company. We have a team of 5 members. I was a developer too 4 months ago and was promoted to the project manager position. In my 4 months of experience, I found it really difficult to manage…
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How to implement knowledge management within project teams?

Being a PM while executing many project, it's vital to retain project specific knowledge to be used in future projects as well. What are the techniques that could be used to assist this kind of situation?
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How to deal with programmer that thinks they are "The next best thing"

I have a colleague who will never accept he made a mistake or that his idea is just wrong. He thinks he is "the next best thing". He is also arrogant in his way of talking to people around him in general. The only person that he accepts listening…
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Improving leadership skills for project managers

As a project manager, what are some ways to improve one's effectiveness in leadership on a team? Certainly it may depend on the context; but, generally speaking is it naturally the role of the project manager to lead the team ? Also, what exactly…
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How to split developers/QA into smaller teams?

Our web development company has grown from five to twenty people over a year. We do 2-4 month projects, and usually team size is 2 devs, 1 QA, 1 BA/PM/Scrum master. Our development methodology is Scrum/Agile. Currently everyone reports to CTO, which…
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How to manage and control IT support department?

Is it possible to manage IT maintenance operations like a project, with typical project management mechanisms including scope, time, and cost planning? In our project we experience difficulties in such a management of our IT infrastructure support…
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What role does a PM play in off-hours engineering work?

My thought had always been that the person who is responsible for a team having to work late should be there with them. In most of my experience as a developer, that person has been a project or product manager and some would stay while others…
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New developer has trouble communicating

We recently hired a senior developer however he has issues communicating. There is a bit of a language barrier but even when spoken to in his own language he is difficult to communicate with. I am never sure if he has understood what he has been…
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Best way to deal with developers whose work is always unsatisfactory

The problem is not in experience, The developers have all the necessary resources to work in a good dev environment (time, books, assistance, team leads, technical leads, senior devs, project managers). However, there are always serious problems in…
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How to manage hard feelings among distinct teams? (Integration of data)

My company has recently acquired another small company. Now, my company has a ERP system that we are using it presently. Also, the acquired company has an ERP system of its own. Now I have been given the responsibility of integrating my company's…
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