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How much technical experience is required to be a software project manager?

I have 3 years of programming/development experience in mid-scale applications, and I do not have any project management experience. I'm thinking of taking the PMP as a stepping stone so that I can transit to a project manager role in my next job…
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How do you retroactively measure the actual difficulty of a requirement?

Before implementation, we use experience to estimate the difficulty of requirement implementation. After the code has been tested and implemented, I want to examine a metric to measure the actual difficulty of the requirements. Which metric could…
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Scrum with highly specialized developers

Where I'm currently working, I'm the only BizTalk/Integration developer. Other developers are specialized in hand-held devices, others in Silverlight, and other in electronic devices. I don't know what they know, and they don't know what I know. …
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Where to get general info on Work Breakdown Structure (WBS)?

I work in a software development company. I have this major ticket for which I have to produce a WBS (Work Breakdown Structure). I also have to prepare an estimation for the ticket. The ticket deals with a re-architecture of, well, various…
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How to integrate a remote person in a Scrum team?

We have hired a new team member who lives in another country. This is not like a team split across 2 locations - he is alone there. What things should we consider doing in such a case: in order to keep our daily standups short. to help him…
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Maintenance Project: How to evaluate team's performance?

Year end is approaching, and on the company I'm working (and pretty much all other IT companies) it's time for year's performance evaluation. Evaluating people is always a sensitive and insightful task, specially on IT where deliverables depending…
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Do we really need project managers?

My friend from UK - Richard Newton - has published a very interesting article which tries to answer this question. However, I don't think he managed to look at all the angles and give appropriate answers. Therefore, I would like to ask you: Do we…
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Writing the perfect proposal

What strategies can I take to write a good project proposal document? So far the way I write them is that I include 3 main sections: Technical Details Delivery Items Cost Estimation My understanding is that this should be a document that…
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Help with stories in Scrum

The company I work for has recently greenlit a large project to completely rewrite our software product. As PM, I have championed using Scrum on the project and the company have been very supportive of the process. Howevever this is the first time…
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Is Redmine sufficient for light to moderate project management? If so, what plug-ins are required?

"Redmine is a flexible project management web application. Written using Ruby on Rails framework, it is cross-platform and cross-database. Redmine is open source and released under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2 (GPL)." Is it…
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My customer is pushing me very hard to come up with a fully detailed fine grained almost by hour work plan

I know this is likely to fail almost by definition, but I don't really have an suitable alternative. Currently we are working almost exactly the opposite way, with a 8 items work plan, but we are losing control over the work to be performed. I…
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How do companies measure task progress in project management tools (Jira) when fresher team members spent most of the time in learning?

I am trying to figure out how project management can help my team complete tasks faster, and I started to motivate one of our Junior developers to start using Jira recently. But he quickly loses track and stops updating the issue status, because he…
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Quicker Retrospectives? They are taking longer and are less effective now we are working from home because of COVID

I am after ideas to make things run more smoothly and more quickly. I have been using a combination of MS Teams and online tools like GroupMap and Stormz. But there are long pauses, and less to and fro, and everything seems to take much longer. I…
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How can a PM prevent a train wreck in progress?

Our mid-size development team is doing a multi-year project. We always had major technical concerns that were never resolved. Now we find ourselves part of the way over a cliff: the architecture direction is misguided, the business plan doesn't make…
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How do I foster communication in Project Meetings?

Context: I'll admit, I've recently transitioned to a PM role at a new company, and the atmosphere is slightly different than the previous firm I worked at. I was a 'Project Manager' (note the quotations) at my previous role, but it wasnt a…
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