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Estimation, Targets, and Performance

Assuming that your team does a great job building its estimates and using a probabilistic approach versus a deterministic approach, and finds that the scope of work will take between 12 to 18 months to complete with their most likely estimate around…
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Project Management and sales activities

Recently my company insists that the PM should be strongly engaged in sales activities like writing offers, negotiating with clients, supervising the sales process. Sometimes it happens that the PM leads the process from client request to order. On…
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How can short-term product development co-exist with long-term innovation projects?

We have some product teams for improving/maintaining the current line of products; but there are also "innovation teams" which try to plan/shape/design the next-generation products. The former teams usually look at short-term goals (small…
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How can I handle a client's client who is upset with bugs but refuses to use any kind of Project Management?

I am a programming/engineering freelancer working as a consultant for a mid-sized corporation. This mid-sized corporation has many clients, including a very large financial company (one of the top 10 financial companies in the world), who we will…
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Improve performance of feature X - should that be a new user story or something else?

We have implemented and closed user story X but found out later that the implementation is too slow and we need to improve performance. I think it was a mistake not to have acceptance criteria for performance in the first place but it happened and…
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How to communicate with project leaders when they are doing poorly

I have been on multiple projects where the project leaders have not involved themselves in the project enough to even learn what the project is really doing. Other times the project leaders didn't even schedule progress sessions throughout the…
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What went wrong - project going off track

I'm not a PM. I'm a developer working on a large project with a small team at an 18 person company. The "team" is just me and the project manager. The project isn't the largest my company has ever had but it's right up there within 5-10% of the…
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How to handle difficult Project Manager

I always feel difficulty to face my project manager and don't know how to handle him. There are many situations in which I feel very bad because of his behaviour. 1) While discussion about time required to develop project he always gives very less…
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How to make daily Scrum more accessible to participants?

We are in our 10th Sprint right now, and I can see a pattern during dailies. When a person is doing his or her speech which involve no one else and when his work is a little bit difficult to grasp technologically, then no one really cares about what…
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Interview tips for a Project Manager Position, with no IT background, but strong PM Skills

I have managed to get through the phone screening and have an in-person interview for the position of a Project Manager with an e-commerce company. I have a strong background in project management (5+ years), but it is in the Construction Industry.…
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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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Is there a difference between use case and user stories?

Is there any difference between use case and user stories? Or are these totally different terms in the context of agile planning?
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How do I get my manager to understand that our project needs to stop here, and that we have to be on a new track?

Let's say, I've been working on a watch. This is your ordinary pocket watch, it has hands, gears, shows the time... About a month passes, and they want us to make this into a wrist-watch, still with the analog design, but fits nicely onto your…
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How to conduct an exit interview with an external contractor?

I have a contractor, who is a programmer, that has successfully performed his duties in the short time and I'd like to receive feedback from him on our organization. How do I prepare for such a meeting and what kinds of questions are okay to ask…
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What are the best practices/methods/tools/techniques for conflict identification in requirements?

For the sake of this discussion requirements = user-stories (since I'm not differentiating any process per se and would like to get rid of any ambiguities). It's quite common to have a set of about 100-500 requirements for small-medium systems. It's…
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