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Questions tagged [time-management]

Questions about time management in the context of Project Management. See also http://productivity.stackexchange.com/ for general time management questions.

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Is imposing "impossible deadlines" a Management Technique?

I am a developer aiming to become a manager. I want to know if the following is a valid management technique (within reasonable parameters, to be determined), I want to know how to deal with it and to use it or not. A group of developers is given a…
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How do you get the most value out of a PM who can do everything?

This excellent post by Joel struck home (The gorilla with too many hats), and made me think. Many project managers started out as individual contributors, and may have strong technical skills in a given domain. In an era of "do less with more",…
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What do to if a signed project got cancelled?

I have a X dollars project under my belt. It supposed to start on Monday. But client refused to go forward and I waited for them for a week. How do software consulting firms deal with this situation? This is a contract project and the client cannot…
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How detailed should my time management be?

I work as a freelancer and want to start tracking my time, but how do I decide how detailed this should be? Currently, I just keep track of the time I spend on various projects, but I don't subdivide my time between different parts of those…
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Have I become paranoid about project & time management?

How do you manage your projects (and your personal life) ? I tend to become psychotic because nothing seems to work. To specify the requirements & information better (as a developer's way of thinking...): There are several client projects, that can…
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What's wrong with a status pull?

This morning my manager was trying to reschedule the weekly synch; I pointed out that it was a status pull and might not be worth the effort to reschedule. Manager replied that it was convenient. Obviously status pull is always convenient for the…
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PMP documentation without closing date

I am a banking professional and would like to have a PMP qualification. My experience is related to projects, but most of them are continuous projects: each project has a start date but not a closing date. Can I use this kind of project as my…
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How to automatically track time spent on tasks

In my organization, we have tasks that are repeated in the same way for every project. I need to track the time the team or an individual has spent doing those tasks (i.e. the time between the moment the task was assigned and the moment it was…
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Should I track time for an hourly project during time taking operations?

I am a freelance programmer and use time-tracker software to bill my hours. Sometimes when I am running some time-taking operation such as building a Docker image, running a CI pipeline and waiting for it to finish. Should I keep the time tracker…
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Network Diagram Duration Problem in time management

I am practicing exam nowadays to get PMP exam using famous exam simulator but i found question i cannot determine how they draw the diagram table below : & they draw it like the following : my question is how the End have 2 duration & how i can…
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