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How to Politely Refuse Changing Decisions

I just launched a game with a small virtual team of three (plus myself). It was quite successful. We made some decisions like using email as our primary communication medium, and iRC as our primary chat mechanism. Now, three other new people have…
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How to manage R&D projects in a R&D department?

Background We have got a R&D department within our company. It consists of a few 'core team members' who work full time. They are open-minded technical people who jump into new ideas and try to do whatever they come up with. Also there are a lot of…
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What you would do in this situation? Support a critical error for a client or observe your deadline with the other?

I have been interviewed yesterday as a team leader for a start-up, and I was asked this: Suppose you have a deadline for a client tomorrow and there is much pressure on your team to finish it and deliver the product on time. However, there is a…
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PM learns deliverable is vaporware, team has been hiding it from the client & want PM to lie to client also.

I will TRY to keep this simple. I was brought on this project approx. 1/2 way through to fill the role of CM DB SME(20+yrs broad based experience). The PM (non-technical by his own admission) repeatedly asked me to fix project docs etc. during first…
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How can I get our BAs to provide business requirements, and stop confusing them with implementation

Our BAs (Business Analysts) have an annoying habit of providing us with system requirements, rather than business requirements. Often times, they don't even know what the business requirement is. It infuriates me, because I see a list of…
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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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How to work with freelancers in a proper way?

Note: At first I wrongly posted this question to the original Stackoverflow site Let's say that for a software project I have: a complete project plan; a software requirements specification; a software architecture document; a lead developer; and…
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OneNote as an enterprise wiki?

I like wikis for knowledge gathering / sharing but the usability of many of them could be better in my opinion (for example, MediaWiki is popular but has quite complicated and verbose syntax which can put some people off). OneNote, on the other…
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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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What do you do if the Product Owner is ill?

Simple question. How do you run the Sprint Review and Sprint planning?
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How to approach convincing employers to invest in software

I am relatively new to my current job, but I have a lot of ideas of how to improve the current working environment in terms of productivity, software quality and performance. I aim to be having a meeting with the bosses of this small company, in…
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What techniques are useful when factoring in the likelihood that one or more members of the team may take leave during a project?

What's the best way of planning for the possibility that a key member(s) of the team might want to take leave at some point during a project? I understand one solution is to buffer the project sufficiently so that the project / task can soak up this…
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What techniques are necessary to convince (upper) management to abandon a project once time has been invested?

I want to convince my manager and (probably) his manager that a project needs to be scrapped and we need to purchase an off-the-shelf solution. Somehow it was recommended that, rather than use a pre-built solution like FogBugz to do our task/issue…
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How do you deal with developer holidays on a KANBAN board?

One of our developers has gone on holiday with some tickets associated with them on the Kanban board. We were faced with the following two options: Keep the work in progress limit the same for that team, and keep those tickets on the board, but not…
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Agile Principles: What does "sustainable development" mean?

I am new to Project Management. I was reading the Agile Manifesto Principles and would like to understand what "sustainable development" means in the following principle: Agile processes promote sustainable development. The sponsors, developers,…
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