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How to facilitate communication and peer reviews on a distributed scrum team?
We have a Scrum team of 3 developers, a scrum master, and a product owner. Everyone works out of their home (except the product owner who works at his organization's headquarters).
In the past, we have used formal inspections for peer reviewing…
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Which is the best methodology to manage a distributed team, working in several short term one-man projects?
I lead a team of around 20 people, distributed around the world (different timezones, most of us haven't met in person).
Most of the projects we work on are short term (3-4 weeks) customizations with our own designer framework and are one-man…
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Resources used by multiple PMs
I am the Infrastructure PM on a large project, working as part of a team of PMs with different responsibilities. These include Development, Testing, Environment Support, and Implementation. My remit is limited to delivering the hardware and…
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Risk Register is a public document in a project?
Risk Register normally contains very sensitive information about potential problems. Some of them sound very scary like "we may loose our key sponsor" or "our CTO may eventually leave the company". These severe risks are very important for a project…
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Scrum approach to Graphic Design office
I've been recently asked to teach Scrum to a graphic design office. Why? Because they want to turn their services into quick deliverable products, and not lose focus on the current project they're working on. They want discipline, commitment and…
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40 work hours a week is said to be the limit for productiveness, does it include open-source?
I keep seeing articles about the uselessness of working more than 40 hours a week, this one for example but I remember I read the same on Forbes and others. Does this estimate include the time spent on open-source or external projects? Reading these…
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How do you visualize projects progress?
What reports do you use to track progress of several projects? In particular, what progress visualization techniques do you use?
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Allowing PMs to grade/rate developers
We're trying to introduce some new/updated ways to quantify developer productivity, and we want to include our Project Managers' thoughts. What do you think about allowing PMs to "grade" or apply some sort of "rating" to a developer's task? The…
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Agile and Scrum:- approaches, problems, common mistakes and lessons learned
From doing Agile and Scrum are there any lessons you can pass on from your experiences?
Are there any approaches that work better than others?
Which of the many parts of the theories have you found the most important in real-world situations?
Are…
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What is the main factor that makes your project not meet its goals most of the time?
What is the most common problem you face regularly and how you can avoid it?
I wonder if we, as a community, will agree on the same thing?
I ask for some short answers (just in a few words) to share our experience.
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Is planning software necessary?
Is planning software necessary? Can you plan your project without one?
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Why can't I find well elaborated criticism on agile/scrum on the web?
After several years of agile and scrum hype around, I'd expect the first well-known reactions from "bullshit!" to "magical!" to be gone and I should be able to find some really elaborated articles that question the highly praised benefits of those…
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Mentoring for new Project Managers
I'm trying to figure out if and how to help people who become Project Manager / Project Leader for the first time. Not sure if it is a good name, but I'm trying to create kind of a "mentoring system" for new PMs.
From your experience:
Do you know…
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How do you make a project team take greater ownership and initiative within a project?
About 6 months ago I had to manage a project in a Government Organization where there was a strict hierarchical origination that was part of the corporate culture. No one would act with out being directly told what to do. It was difficult to get the…
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How to convince an employer you're worth more than you're being paid
Perhaps not the best wording of a question title, but it more or less sums up what I'm trying to ask. Basically, say you work for a company and do x, y and z to improve various aspects of the company; but after a period of time and an acquisition of…
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