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Is the PMP or other project management certification worth while to have?

This is a classic question whose answer would likely help a lot of people on this site. Is it worth it to get the PMP? How about other project management certifications?
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What is the Procedure for Handling a Team Where Two Members Might be Dating?

Some companies have policies where people may date but that the two individuals can't be working in the same department or be in a supervisor/subordinate relationship. But with projects, you often see situations where cross-functional and/or…
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How can I improve measurement of Sprint Goals that are based on soft skills or communication processes?

Background I am currently coaching a non-development team on Scrum practices. The team is focused on back-office, administrative processes. This makes the work somewhat of a pull-queue where Kanban would be a better fit if the actual completion of…
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How to protect a team member from management?

A member of my team has had a terrible experience with other senior managers on one project. He used to work for them. While he worked for them he was misled on delivery dates, requirements and generally pushed around. I am now managing him…
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What are the metrics for software documentation?

I would like to get information about measurements and metrics for documentation work in a project. The project can be itself limited to documentation as a deliverable or documentation as part of entire product delivery. How can I measure…
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Are employee's pay factored into costs for project?

Here's my story. I started working for a new company as an interface developer, with a small team of 3, for a semi-large laboratory 2 weeks ago. When I came into the department all of their projects were being managed by either paper or excel…
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Can planning poker in very heterogeneous teams help estimate user stories accurately?

Picture a very heterogeneous team, where every member knows just his/her field or just a part of his/her field and very very limited part of some other fields. Does it makes sense to do the estimation at the planning session with help of planning…
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What percentage of a project manager's time should be spent working in the project management software and documentation?

What percentage of the project manager's time is spent planning, writing tasks, and tracking time in the project management software? How much time should be given to documentation? Every position is a little different, so I'm hoping to see some…
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Sizing an entire backlog using story points

I'm a PM on a large multi-year project with a sizable backlog of work implementing Scrum in 4 week release cycles. I hold weekly backlog grooming sessions with the project team and key business owners to review the user stories in the backlog,…
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What factors should determine a task's priority?

Is it common to assign a task's priority based solely on its due date? For example, is the following system valid for all scenarios? Urgent = less than 24 hours High = Not more than 24 hours Medium = 24 to 48 hours Low = within the business…
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How to determine the skills of a software developer in a job interview?

I have come to a new challenge in my career that involves handling some job interviews, and I must determine if the applicant really has mastered the skills he/she lists in his/her CV. How do I accomplish this? Do I: Prepare an assignment? Ask…
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Dealing with large specifications with Scrum

From time to time, our product need to cope with new network protocols that comes in large specification files (~100+ pages). Usually, gathering the requirements from the specification can't be done by only one person, because it's large and prone…
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Can bug trackers be used for tracking tasks other than programming?

I work as an electrical engineer, and sometimes when work gets busy (read: most of the time) there are so many various tasks and things to remember to take care of later that it can get difficult to track. In the past I've tried using a notebook,…
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How can I track team member utilization across a range of projects?

I have a fixed-sized team (with fixed-hours) and products, more than the team can handle. At any given time, while my resources are working on one product, requests keep flowing in about work on other products--most of them with conflicting…
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Shall I use my project management style when I'm substituting for my colleague, while he is away?

It is vacation period again, and I was asked to help out with a project while my colleague was on vacation. I don't know too much about the project - unfortunately we aren't that transparent -, but I know the people involved - we are located in the…
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